# Has anyone met an educated Jehovah's Witness?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-met-an-educated-jehovahs-witness/686991>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 25, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-met-an-educated-jehovahs-witness/686991 "2014-04-25T21:06:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-met-an-educated-jehovahs-witness/686991/41 "2014-05-01T11:32:23Z")

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> [@Claverhouse](#):
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> The famous Philip Gosse, hero of _Father and Son_, was a member of the notorious obscurantist Plymouth Brethren, a sect so strict and weird it is amazing it didn’t expand into the 19th century American crazy.

Plymouth Brethren beliefs were instead joined to American Independent Baptist and other Evangelical & Fundamentalist groups. Its biggest theological contribution was Dispensationalism, including the Pre-Tribulation Rapture.

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-met-an-educated-jehovahs-witness/686991/42 "2014-05-01T12:08:08Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> I think Raindog decided to either leave or go on lurk status. I really liked him &, tho I’m a traditional Trinitarian, we had more in common against the general trends here.

Yeah, a quick search shows his last posts here were March '13, and in fact you and he were going back and forth (civilly) over the Trinity in his thread. 🙂

So, no flameout. I hope he’s all right.

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**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-met-an-educated-jehovahs-witness/686991/43 "2014-05-08T17:28:41Z")

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> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> Yeah, a quick search shows his last posts here were March '13, and in fact you and he were going back and forth (civilly) over the Trinity in his thread. 🙂
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> So, no flameout. I hope he’s all right.

Hey **OneCentStamp.**  
Thanks for checking in. I’m alright.

I really loved the Dope for a long while, and while it was far from ideal for my tastes, it was still the best message-board that I’d found.

But the negatives just kept piling up for me, (those damn humans!) and I really got tired of the whole “we’re special” vibe. That and I’m just old enough that barroom profanity for the sake of profanity isn’t clever and/or erudite and I thought GD increasing seemed more like screeching rants.

It’s a great place for the right demographic. Increasingly it was apparent I wasn’t that demographic. There was several posters I really enjoyed, (Friar Ted is a good example) and had there been more of them I’d still be here. In the end, you can disagree without being disagreeable. IMV, that wasn’t lacking, it was largely absent. The final straw was a poster or 2 that I felt were cretins and the moderation too inconsistent. That may look like a rant, but it isn’t.

To quote George Constanza, “It’s not you, it’s me.” 😉

I enjoyed my time, and I do a vanity search every few months, but I can’t see being a regular anymore. It was time to move on.

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