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

  by John Aquila in

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  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.

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  Magnum

  And, one's having completed some kind of schooling does not necessarily mean he's smart, and that applies to advanced degrees, too. Then, there are different kinds of smarts.

  I've found that being successful in a career or business is mostly being at the right place, at the right time, and knowing the right people and "Learning" the right skills. (That make come after the fact)

  Some of these JW with degrees are making 50-60k a year, the engineers are making 70k-80k a year. Then some who dropped out of high school and started picking up trash and cutting grass for a living now have business that make them over a million a year. The successful business owners tell me, "Jump on opportunities, always keep learning everything you can and be good at what you do. And build a network of friends with different skills that can bail you out of trouble if you get yourself in a jam.

  Since they are JWs, this is their favorite scripture they use all the time;

  (Proverbs 22:29) . . .Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
  
  
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  What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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 .

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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'.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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.