Posts by John Aquila

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

Oubliette

Well John, I can't explain it. Why would such highly educated people stay in a cult that is constantly dumbing down their educational content.
The psychology of such a thing is difficult to understand

I guess we need a little more time to see how it all transpires in the next couple of years. Some of these changes in the WT are just eye popping. It may be that most of these educated people are in the process of waking up. And as you know, the process takes time. The young kids going to school may also be waking up and perhaps they are trying to figuring out how they are going to fade. So we will see.

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What other Shenanigans can we expect to see in the next 2 years?

by John Aquila in

its been a little over 2 years since i left the watchtower.

in that time the magazines have been cut, the birth of jwtv, jw-org.

carts for preaching, removed district overseers, cut assemblies, demand all the money from the congregations, stop construction and layoff bethelites, change the format of the tmschool .

John Aquila

sparrowdown - "The elders will become nothing more than glorified ushers at the GB shows each week."

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The end of the age or the end times what did the Bible writers mean?

by Crazyguy in

there are plenty of scriptures pointing to the idea that the end was near according to the scriptures way back then.

example at act chapter 2 peter states were in the last days, at 1john chapter 2 in the last hour.

jesus stated he would be back before some of that generation died and of course the famous quote 'this generation'.

John Aquila

The writers were referring to their audience, but somehow, it seems every freaking generation from then on to now, wants to apply it to their particular time.

There should be and "End" to people applying the Biblical End Times to themselves.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

Magnum
There were two teachers (married couple) who had master's degrees in education, but I swear that neither of them should have been let out of the third grade (I'm not exaggerating).

LOL, now that's funny.

Finkelstein 5 minutes ago

So yes educated can and do get involved in cults and some even start them. ie. J. Rutherford

Good example.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

Having said that, successful people do not make good robots, and very often times, with the passing of time and experience, probability dictates that something will happen to these ones that will force them to wake up.

I agree D4G. after I finished my degree, it still took about 4 years to get out. But once I was going to school, I could start seeing the cracks. It was a slow process.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

I am paying all these loans for this, really.

That sucks RB. It is strange, I'm wondering that tim3l0rd has a point.

Cult indoctrination

The barrage of constant spew might be what's keeping them in a deep sleep.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

I would imagine that some of that has to do with the local culture

In my area it seems the young JWs are changing the culture within the WT organization. Young sisters, 16-21 "Expect" the young brothers who want to date them to be going to college. No college no..........

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This is the dude running QCS Telecom

by StarTrekAngel in

we all remember the acquisition of qcs telecom by the wtbts.

this was posted on jw-archive with a link to a linkedin profile of the alleged project manager.

if it is true that they are actually putting down 100g network, i can tell you first hand that is effing expensive.

John Aquila

He says;

When not working, my wife and I are involved in extensive community volunteer programs,

I'm assuming that means door to door field service?

Is he a JW?

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

Also, most of those that went to college and university in previous decades did not have access to all the information that kids today have. Now that they are older they are set in their ways

I wonder if the young kids today going to college will be pressured by their educated parents to stay in the organization. If so, we're back to square one. Another generation being enslaved by the WT.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

John Aquila

We talk a lot about most JWs being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of JWs that went to the University, Medical school, Law School, and came back to the Organization.

In my Circuit, that I know of, we had two Electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a Ph.D. eight teachers with a Bachelor’s degree and three of those with a Master’s in Education. We had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel. We had about 8 Mechanical engineers, some who transferred from another state to work across the border. We had one sister who was dating a pioneer brother and finished her degree in Civil Engineering and was invited to bethel as soon as she finished her degree, (She dumped the pioneer brother) And we had one CEO of a major Hospital Chain who was making several million dollars a year. We had several Lawyers some of who went to Bethel or are doing work for the WT at home.

This doesn’t include several of the young ones that I’ve just heard about yesterday who are going to law school, and medical school.

Then there's the ones I don't know about.

All these went to the University to get their degrees, including masters, doctorate, medical, and law degrees,

and came back to the organization. Some are elders and some are not just like other publishers.

You would think that a good education would help them develop “Critical thinking” but that is not the case. They still believe the Organization is God’s ONLY channel to mankind.

How do we explain that?

BTW, perhaps the WT knows these one will be the new source of income in the future. Young kids that get their degrees and make tons of money.