Learn why Fred quit university to join the Watchtower
Fred Franz 85 talk on WTS History
by Vanderhoven7 17 Replies latest social humour
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Vanderhoven7
As you listen to his talk, you might think an apostate is impersonating Fred.
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slimboyfat
The distance between apostate and staunch defender is often paper thin.
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Longlivetherenegades
@ slimboyfat
So true, one only need to allow the DEFENDER to talk for an extended period before you start to see APOSTASY in the words coming out from their mouth.
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Rocketman123
A long talk trying to make justification for lying and bullshitting for the sake of selling literature to the public.
No doubt people there and then were clapping and applauding in appreciation
Idiots ..
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Biahi
It’s funny, I know so many Christian kids who finished college, never lost their faith, and after college have good jobs in their chosen field, have families, and attend church, and also host “bible study” in their homes. They are actually very nice young people who love God and other people. Witnesses seem to be so scared of this. Btw, my daughter is one of the above description.
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resolute Bandicoot
Biahi said - They are actually very nice young people who love God and other people. Witnesses seem to be so scared of this.
... And there are very often volunteers and useful participants in society!
RB
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Diogenesister
Bible students "of prominence to be buried"?? I thought witnesses were all equal??
I was surprised to hear him lie out of his own mouth about having a place to study at ,"Oxford university college" ( there's no such place btw, There's Balliol college in Oxford, Jesus or Keble college in Oxford etc etc ) It was his tutor in his freshman year that suggested he might apply to obtain a place as a Rhodes scholar (so he claims). He didn't even apply let alone be accepted.
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Earnest
In the account of his life story in the Watchtower 1st May 1987, pp.22-30, Fred Franz explains the sequence of events :
A high point in my academic life was when Dr. Lyon, the university’s president, announced to an assembly of students in the auditorium that I had been chosen to go to Ohio State University to take competitive examinations with others to win the prize of the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship, qualifying me for admission to Oxford University in England.
On April 5, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois, I symbolized my consecration—as we used to call dedication—by water baptism.
I have never regretted that, shortly before the announcements by the educational authorities regarding the outcome of the examinations for the Cecil Rhodes Scholarship, I wrote a letter to the authorities and advised them that I had lost interest in the Oxford University scholarship and that they should drop me from the list of contestants. This I did even though my professor in Greek at the university, Dr. Joseph Harry, informed me that I had been chosen to receive it. [My italics]
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dropoffyourkeylee
Franz's statements about this were always ambiguous enough to leave a lot of questions. I only half believe what he said on the subject.