by Frequent_Fader_Miles 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
As my speech counsel slip filled up, oh how I looked forward to "graduating" from that dumb school ... until I realized there was no such thing. Little did I know that we were all destined to be forever in the matrix of "talk" after "talk" ... "assignment" after "assignment". Zzzzzzz
Jeez! I gave my first talk at 8 years old! What's the sense being in "school" if you don't graduate?! Which do I take to make it all over ... the red pill or the blue pill....
Thanks for the laugh. I forget if it is the red or blue pill.
Anyway, some brothers actually do graduate from the TMS, but never sisters.
Brothers become elders, then they do not receive counsel on their talks
unless the other elders really feel like they are messing up.
OH, the little slips are done away with. Every TMS member is supposed to
have their counsel in their School Textbook. The school was revamped about
4 and a half years ago, but is essentially the same. Sisters still give the #3 or #4
talk for 5 minutes.
I was just describing my feelings as they were at the time. I gave my last talk waaaay back in 1999 ... I graduated myself!
FFM, The "W.I.G." needed to be completed, and then you would start all over again.
W...WORK on it.
I...IMPROVED.
G...GOOD.
Back to "W.I.G".
No matter how many times you got a good, even if you filled the whole counsel slip with a good by which time males should of been appointed Elders and no more wigging, you would start the wigging over and over again. Sisters who wore wigs, still had to go through the wigging process
Blueblades
As a school overseer back when the slips and the W, I, G system was in place-
I remember a service meeting part about progressing in the Theo. Ministry School.
As per instructions from the Borg, I told the congregation that they would never get a
"W" more than twice. That "W" was not so terrible that they should be embarrassed
by it. To make the part a bit lighter, I joked about what you might see on a slip.
Some will see a "World War One" on their slip. You know, WWI
Occasionally, you would see a "World War Two" on your slip- WWII
After WWII , you would move on to the next point. (I neglected to mention that one day,
you will return to that point since you never graduate.)
What happens is that you start on point #21 (in the old system), after your first talk where there is no counsel point. Then you go in order--they might take things out of order if the hounder thinks you need hounding in a particular point. Then, once you have all the points done, you simply get a new card and have to fill them in again. This repeats infinitely--there is no graduation.
It is pretty much the same under the new system. The points and the numbers have changed, but the principle is the same. Work on a point until you pass, and then move onto the next. Then, once you have completed them all, you simply get a new slip. Of course, if they feel like hounding you more on a particular point, they may take things out of order. Either way, you cannot graduate unless you become a hounder and no longer get those slips.
There are other discrepencies about this "school". There are only two classes (some larger congregations may have three). A book study will go to one of those other classes, and either you are in that book study and you go, or you are not and you don't. The pool is taken from the Hell itself, so there really is no opportunity for anything out of the ordinary to happen (and if there was, the hounders and/or the hounder-hounder would put a quick stop to it before anything exciting happens). Very boring.
You also learn nothing except how to more effectively spread the virus. This does not teach people to read, appreciate literature of a secular nature, allow people to be more proficient in math or science, or teach accurate history (only the Tower version--607 or else). There is never a 20-minute blank space at the end of the class. You cannot bring in a book on optics or astronomy without having Brother Hounder give you a harsh lecture about reading material (and then you are either going to have to surrender it or tell them that next time it's either that or Crisis of Conscience). And they call this a "school".
