by Larry 19 Replies latest jw friends
What was your misconceptions about the GB?
Here was one of mine, when folks would ask me why wasn't their any Blacks on the GB. I would say that the Blacks weren't educated enough at the time (late 1800's - early 1900's) to govern a worldwide organization. They picked highly educated men for such a weighty responsibility. It wasn't until I left the BORG to learn that the GB wasn't/isn't highly educated themselves!
Talk about brainwashing!!!
Peace - Larry
What an interesting post!
As for me, I grew up in a very odd congregation (yes, some congregations are more odd than others).
Nobody in our cong could even name a member of the GB. They were a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Jehovah somehow planned, printed, and distributed our literature. We never would toss a WT or Awake into the trash, just piles and piles left all over the house. I mean, for years!
Throwing them out was akin to trashing god, thats how closely aligned the gb was to god, and still is from many posts that I have read here.
In my congregation, naming or personifying a member of the gb was akin to disrediting jehovah!
Good thing SP and TJ don't post here anymore, cause ol Larry be ina whole heapa twouble.
I know when I left in 1980 or so that it was still preached that blacks were hams decendants and blackness was a curse. That blacks were forever condemned as slaves and inferior.
I didn't make it up, nor did Larry. That is a remnant teaching of the GB.
I suspect one of the reasons to hide the names of the g.b. was to protect the guilty.
I believed the same as you, Larry:
The Governing Body = Highly educated scholars.
"Good thing SP and TJ don't post here anymore, cause ol Larry be ina whole heapa twouble."
Wow, Xjw_b12, you mean to say that TJ (Theodore Jaracz) and SP (aka Schroeder and Pierce) used to post here? I wish they still did, because they got a lot of 'splainin' to do!
Larry, I read somewhere that the GB members who "worked" on the NWT had no academic training in any of the bible languages at all, (with the exception of Fred Franz). How did they manage that one??
I know when I left in 1980 or so that it was still preached that blacks were hams decendants and blackness was a curse. That blacks were forever condemned as slaves and inferior.
Littlewitch, I never knew this.Is there anywhere I could look this up in their literature?
The more I learn here,the more I realize what I didnt know about the JWs
thanks,galaxy7
What was your misconceptions about the GB?
That they actually knew what the hell they were talking about and that they were guided by the Holy Spirit.
Galaxy,
It is something I remember being taught from the stage. I do know it is in old literature. Perhaps Onacruise or Blondie can refer us to the quotes.
I know when I left in 1980 or so that it was still preached that blacks were hams decendants and blackness was a curse. That blacks were forever condemned as slaves and inferior.
I grew up a Dub and I am amazed to read this. Never Never was this said at our hall. I also grew up in a suburb of Chicago (so maybe that is why.) I read all of your posts and often wonder how I could have missed some of the things that you folks were taught because we weren't. Amazing!
Jill
