It's probably been suggested here before, but it just hit me that maybe one of the reasons we are discouraged from sending our youngin's to college is that it might put a crimp in our available funds for the "world wide work."
Possibility?
College or Contributions?
by watson 4 Replies latest jw friends
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jaguarbass
That's one way of looking at it. The publishing company wants your total devotion.
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WTWizard
This is an extremely short-sighted view that they take. They want your money now , not some time later (after all, they keep telling us that Armageddon is coming in the next few weeks or months). The problem is that, if they allowed college, the income would likely be larger (however, there is no guarantee on that, depending on the economy). If more of them earned more money, the donations would go up (assuming that they don't find out that the money goes to protect pedophiles or kill freedom of speech among ex-Witlesses).
The other major factor is education means apostasy. People that have college education are more likely to think philosophically. And that kind of thinking is likely to lead to objective thinking. Realizations that the Tower isn't the truth or rational cost/benefit analyses lead to people leaving and turning apostate. And that's what they don't want to see. Cut off the education, and you cut off the ability to think like this. And, has anyone else noticed how many articles in the Asleep are scientifically wrong?
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watson
The problem is that, if they allowed college, the income would likely be larger
That was the irony I saw in the whole "push" away from higher education...
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mavie
Of course, a bachelor's degree is worth an average of $1 million. Very short sighted if it's only about the money.