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how come some Elder's wives would not sign up for the school
Good on them too! They would have done this at personal cost to themselves because their husbands would not have been happy.
Wives who don't sign up are setting a positive example to others in the congregation who don't want to do it either.
I had to join the school before I could get baptised.
It is part of the indoctrination process pure and simple. Like OTWo said, you are more likely to believe things when you say them.
Man, didn't you go to the meeting last Sunday?
We join the school because the GB says so! We show our loyalty to Christ by meekly submitting to the GB who are the channel between Jesus and the organisation. They are taking the lead over us and it is our sacred duty to obey them.
Don't make Jesus angry now!
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I'm not worthy.
It's simply because they are a commercial enterprise and this is the marketing training for those promoting their products, in this case they are unpaid employees who give their time for working and training for free. The training is in fact commercial though it is passed off as being religious.
Yup. Things make a lot more sense when you look at the WTS via Gary Busselman's business-oriented analyzation...
I don't know the answer to your question.
I also don't understand why each person is not allowed to have and exercise their own God given talents.
1 Corinthians 12
4"Now there are varieties of gifts...."
14"For the body does not consist of one member but of many."
29"Are all Apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?....."
The point is most employers recognize that different people have different talents and hire people for each job that needs to be done. They don't expect every employee to be able to do every job in the plant.
The Bible clearly shows that God understands this. Why doesn't the WTS?
Bob, I think you're overlooking a big consideration. In my guess, almost no one is born wanting to get up and be a public speaker. The terror we feel is quite natural. But, many who go on to become good public speakers do so because they are made to practice the skill, weather it's in an oral communication course, the j dub meetings, or a professional setting. The focus of practicing oral speaking is not to be naturally good or the best, but to improve and exercise the talent, and hopefully to overcome the fear or at least control it. Also, you have to admit that public speaking is a big part of the jw religion. Not practicing this skill and then expecting them to become preachers would be foolhardy.
I used to be an assistant to the School. I would time talks. I would frequently see small children barely able to go to school get up and have to read the Bible. Never mind that when I was their age, I was the only one in my class that was reading first-grade material fluently. Yet they would be reading words like Nebuchadnezzar, and would be expected to read it fluently. I have seen many of them reach 5:00 (the allotted time) before getting halfway through, and you could not follow them because they just couldn't pronounce the words fluently. Of course, they would get a W for fluency.
I also saw a few talks that were short (under 4 minutes). When this happened, the conductor would always suggest the addition of more material to round it out. This was normal for those #3 and 4 talks to run short. Very often, there simply wasn't any material that would be worth adding.
My mom is not signed up. She was a 'householder' once to fill in for a friend. I am sure she gets 'counsel' about it, but she is too shy. She rarely goes in field service. She thoroughly believes most of the nonsense, but she basically does the bare minimum. Personally, I think she is in out of fear. The WT has convinced her that everything else is wrong-so where else can she go?
