Various Interviews/Experiences:
"I use my time wisely by not spending it with my worldly friends..." And so you chose to spend it with people who devised rules that shut up their female members (with the exception of elders' wives who are skilled manipulators of men and power), ban moustaches and beards (for men too) and frown on higher education. Wise indeed!
"We cannot find such joy (construction of new Kingdom Halls) in the jobs that we do in the world..." Never had a fat paycheck waved in your face, have you?
"I pursued higher education....eventually realized that my energies belong to Jehovah." So which paper did you flunk at uni?
JWs always go on the defensive saying they are NOT against higher education, that they are just not PROMOTING it. Then why all the negative feedback on higher education? Why line up young bros and sisters to tell how choosing higher education compromises spiritual goals and interests?
Talk: Education That Molds the New Personality
"Wrldly education cannot help mold the New Personality"
Oh DUH!!! Secular education is by definition hmmm "secular"! Unless one is attending a(Jah forbid) theology school, how can one expect all institutions of higher learning to teach Christian theology. Of course you don't go to college to be a better ministerial servant or elder. The same way you don't go to Gilead/ Theofartic Ministry School/ Ministerial Tranning School to learn to design houses, healthcare, book-keeping, law etc.
The WTS is knowingly comparing apples with oranges to support their half-baked policy on education.
Talk: Wholesome Speech Among Outsiders
Reason for wanting wholesome speech is that we do not want the world to fault us. read 1 Pet 2:12
Not because you actually love good things huh? You get all sweet and polite so you look good to the rest of the bad bad world. How noble.
Talk: Keep Yourself Without Spot From the World
"To anyone who takes the Bible seriously, these young ones are making a wise and logical decision....they are taking steps to ensure their everlasting future."
"These days youths are pressured to make something of themselves and so they feel a need to pursue higher education"
"Parents are also pressured into funding their children's higher education..."
More propaganda. Sigh.
Talk: Daily Renewing The Man We Are Inside
"One of the reasons sexual immorality is so prevalent is that the world today would have men and women, not married to one another, working long hours in close proximity in large corporations"
"Have you ever heard of the Law of Proximity? This law says that if two elements should lie next to one another e.g. a bar of gold and a bar of silver, the two elements would mix, rubbing off one into the other..." I thought the Law of Proximity has something to do with optical illusions, NOT chemical properties. I know for a fact that gold would not react with other elements readily. And I didn't have to go to uni to learn that.
The speaker establish his "credentials" as chemistry expert early in his talk by explaining how many elements in the periodic table, how many discovered, how many we need to consume to survive.
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