by Lady Lee 13 Replies latest jw friends
I here what your saying. Their is a lot of bad spelling and grammar on hear. Weather its dew to the WTS: who nose?
I think it depends on the individual child, nature and nurture, the educational level of the parents and the latter's willingness to teach and motivate. What's scandalous is the hostility towards higher education. The WTS has got a hell of a cheek to talk about education. They're in the business of harvesting mushrooms, ie keeping everyone in the dark and feeding them bullshit.
There are so many variables here, but one of the main factors is how immersed you were by your parents or some other Witness influence in the GB's recommended program of indoctrination. If you regularly followed the recommended reading and study and speech training and followed all the suggestions, you would have virtually no critical thinking ability but I think you would surely be in the top percentile in terms of reading and linguistic ability for a school-age kid. It's tempting to react emotionally and ignore the positive aspects of an overall negative experience.
theinfamousone, what you are saying is so important! That is one of the SICK things about the WTS and it's called the destruction of the individual. You deserve full credit for your determination, curiousity, strength of character and intelligence. Your mother is right about the influence the reading and study you did had in your life, but so wrong about how you should see yourself and the WTS. They teach that if you take the credit you deserve for the things you mentioned, you're following the evil ways of the original serpent! When in reality, it is vital for your emotional health to receive full praise and recognition. Stripping you of what is yours and what you need to be a healthy individual is one way they take your identity away and transfer it to the Org.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104647/1.ashx
You will enjoy the above thread if you ever used the 'superior' learning material from the WBTS.
Don't blame the WT for my grammar... I'm a foreigner
