I can also add that they hammered college education this past summer at the a$$emblies. Does this mean that people are going to get disfellowshipped for going to college soon? What is this going to do to people that are struggling with tight finances, trying to break out of their poverty and stagnation traps? Are we going to see more people become destitute when they get to about age 50 and start having medical issues or the children are supposed to leave home? Are they even going to be allowed to go to school in the future? Or are they going to be scooped up directly from the cradle into the pioneer work, screw school?
And, while we are on the subject, I can see trouble ahead with people that work in information industries. I recall the Watchtower Society banning work in gambling casinos, tobacco factories, and as armed guards. Does this also mean that, if and when the Internet and/or college are totally banned, people that work at colleges or with the Internet are going to have to, just like that, quit and find another job without the benefit of college? There are only so many windows to wash, and they need cleaning only so often. Does this also mean that, if you work with a computer and/or the Internet, you will have to quit your job like the tobacco workers did? What is this going to do to people that become destitute?
Then, how many other things are you going to ban? You already banned smoking in 1973. You already tried banning oral sex around 1969, and organ transplants in 1967, both of which had to be retracted but not before doing serious damage in both cases. Is coffee next? What is that going to do to pioneers that already depend on coffee to get going in the morning before the next increase in the workload you put on them. What about colas, tea, and chocolate? Or, is there something that we have no hint of yet that you are going to just spring on us once the Kool-Aid edition starts rolling? Perhaps something that makes absolutely no sense?
I have had enough of your stupid bans already, before the Kool-Aids start rolling. You banned Christmas, creating problems for me where none needed to exist, only to find out that the angels did in fact celebrate the birth of Christ. I am not willing to have you take anything else away. i will not risk having chocolate banned. I will not risk losing the use of my Internet. I will not risk having all home decorations, entertainment, education, health care, and anything else that could be fun banned. While these items might not be banned, I am not willing to take the chances. I, for one, will continue assuming that anything not absolutely necessary for performance of the field misery will, given enough time, end up being banned totally and that people will be required to spend 18 or 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, in service. I am not going to take any chances of that--I would rather die than take even a one in a million chance that most or all these things will be banned and/or having to spend my life in its entirity in service.
