cognac:
Most that go to college end up leaving the JWs. That was the whole reason for this new rule.
yep, that is what happened to me. I was "serving" as an Elduh and going to community college FT (18 credits...6 classes)...congo secretary, CBSO....and the local BOE, esp my former nemesis (I will call him Brother Jackass..with a wink to those who know him know what I am talking about) , the previous secretary, did not think I was setting a good example by going to and discussing college with the young ones in the congo. The CO made them back off (this was back in 2004-2006) and told me it was my decision and as long as I did not neglect my congregation duties or suffered spiritually, there was nothing they could do. This particular elder, Brother Jackass, was also the WT conductor and often used this post to pontificate from the platform on Sunday about the evils of education and that it was not necessary to go beyond high school or even a GED..... just go out and get a job. That is what he did.
My first class in community college was Ethics (aka "Contemporary Moral Problems") and that class really opened my eyes up to alternate ways of thinking...exactly what the Slobbering Buddy (aka GB) doesn't want us to do. One of my last classes in my first degree (I am pursuing something additional now), was Introduction to Philosophy....those two classes really helped me to extract myself from the very one-sided way of thinking that I had been locked into for nearly four decades ... all but my first four years of life as a dub.
Though I did listen to the Borg on not going to college in the early 80s when I got out of high school, back when the pendulum swung toward a more restrictive bent, I am glad that when the pendulum swung to a more moderate position that I took the opportunity afforded by this brief window of tolerance by the Borg and went back to college. Now that the pendulum has once again swung to a more restrictive view on secondary education, they have already lost one of their so-called "shining stars" in the Borg...they wasted their MTS training on me ....only to be undone by a mere community college in the midwest....lol....
I have observed more and more young people and their parents ignoring the Blithering Idiots (aka GB) and their back water view of the world and the need to get an education. I am glad to see this trend continue. I hope that more and more in the Organization wake up and smell the coffee and see that it is imperative that they and/or their young ones get advanced schooling. Maybe a Bachelor's degree or higher is not needed, but some sort of education is required or a person is doomed to work at minimum wage jobs, or high physcial labor jobs (ie janitorial) for the rest of their life... (note to Mr. Flipper: nothing against janitorial work...I did it for many years..and it can be a honest and productive way to earn a living...I just dont want to work that damn hard ever again in my life )
It will be interesting to see if the Whacktower Kool-Aid editions flip flops on previously published, more moderate, opinions on education.... or if it will continue to be in the realm of Circuit Overseer talks and overly zealous Gibbering Body talks at Grand Boasting Sessions...... inquiring apostates want to know...lol
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