COLLEGE IS EVIL!!!!!

by why??? 27 Replies latest jw experiences

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  why???

  Hi everyone...this year i had to go to the district convention and with my newly opened mind...i sat there rolling my eyes the whole time...i was however very distrubed by a talk on higher education...Im sure you all know of it...basically telling all of us outright that it was no good and we shouldnt be going...Now i know they have done it in the past...but it seemed so blatant this year in your face...college is evil.....Here's a related link

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vxnZoeEYs&mode=related&search=

  hopefully the links work ..im not really sure how to do it .......
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  eclipse

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vxnZoeEYs&mode=related&search=

  there you go
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  5go

  I nearly blew it. A brother denouced it because it didn't help him then said he went on to get a two year course to get a good job. Then there was the bethelite who said the society helped him get some education for his job at bethel ( hence go to bethel ) then trashed others for doing it on their own.
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  collegegirl21

  Just listening to that makes me sick. I can't wait to hear that from my parents after they hear it this weekend!!! I hope its not on Sunday or else I'm sure all the people in my parent's congregation will be looking at me and pointing their dirty little fingers. How rude for them to say that when you need some sort of schooling in the world we are living in now to survive. Oh that's right... they only want people who don't learn how to think for themselves - so when college encourages you to research and learn things on your own... that is freaken frowned upon. Ridiculous!
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  PEC

  Watchtower Bastards. Today you can't get a good job without at least a 4 year degree.

  When I got my first full time job in 1980, they didn't care, that hadn't finished high school, had went to high school at all. 7 years later, I had to lie to get my next job. 5 years later at 32, I got my GED and my next job. 10 years later, after being unemployed for over a year, I had to change carriers and take a job for 2/3 of what I made at my last job. Today 5 years later, I am making 13/16 of what I made in 2002. I am not complaining, I have a much less stressful job. I am the poster child for not listening to the Watchtower Bastards.

  Philip (of the 94 posts to jedi class.)
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  mavie

  College is the debil. (Said in best Waterboy voice)
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  5go

  Watchtower Bastards. Today you can't get a good job without at least a 4 year degree. When I got my first full time job in 1980, they didn't care, that hadn't finished high school, had went to high school at all. 7 years later, I had to lie to get my next job. 5 years later at 32, I got my GED and my next job. 10 years later, after being unemployed for over a year, I had to change carriers and take a job for 2/3 of what I made at my last job. Today 5 years later, I am making 13/16 of what I made in 2002. I am not complaining, I have a much less stressful job. I am the poster child for not listening to the Watchtower Bastards.

  Philip (of the 94 posts to jedi class.)

  Nearly the same here though I am fixing that next year!
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  Odrade

  Yep, no college here either, and I never had a job (except waitressing,) that paid more than $15k/year until I was 32. Then I (finally) went to vocational school. Last year I made 2x that $15k job. This year I will easily make 3-4x that 15k job if I keep working 4-5 days a week. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had gone to school at 19 instead of at 32. I almost certainly would have made a LOT more money and poured a LOT less water...
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  Mysterious

  Well cut video it made the sound byte less nauseating. Unfortuantely I followed it up with reading some of the comments posted on youtube. Silly jdubs don't you know youtube is the tool of the devil?
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  Princess Daisy Boo

  I am still pissed off, 12 years later, that all my parents expected of me was to complete highschool!

  I was forced to go straight to work (because I did not want to pioneer) and I often wish that I had stood up to them and insisted on studying further. If I had my first two years in the working world would not have been an absolute misery... it is not fair to expect an 18 year old kid to go into the corporate world and just cope. I did not cope well and this did huge damage to my self esteem which took years to recover. I also would not have spent 11 years doing something I absolutely hated because it was the only job I could get with only a high school certificate. I also would have developed a confidence, a sense of achievement and a and belief in myself, that 11 years in a sould destroying job could not ever provide.

  But there is no point in dwelling on the past, I am moving on and making damn sure that I dont spend the next decade of my life doing something sould destroying and boring (I am turning 30 in 3 months and I am making this year a turning point in my life). Well different strokes... all my sister ever wanted to do was finish school so that she could pioneer and then go to Bethal... Well, lucky for her, she acheived all her goals and she is now a cleaner in bethal, married to a MS and living the perfect little JW life. I would say she is probably over qualified with her matric certificate? OK, so I do have some bitterness issues to work through...

  Going on to study further encourages independant thinking, exactly what the organisation does not want of it's followers!