I have a young friend who is deciding weather or not to go to a fully paid college, or work full time at a dead end job. All the witnesses of course are discouraging school.
Anyway, I want to find as many references as I can in the old literature in the 20's-70's that discourage education because the time left is "reduced" or the ones that even go so far as to say the end is a few months or years away.
he is not fully indoctrinated and i think as many of these references i can get the better.
i also am looking for references in regards to end times stuff like 1925, and 1975, etc. i plan on printing out the pdf's at watchtower documents, etc.
so if anyone knows a site that has all this please let me know, thanks!
Need Some Help With References Regarding Education, etc
by yourmomma 3 Replies latest jw friends
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yourmomma
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teflon
Got rid of all the WTBTS BS literature along time ago, so can't help with references. If your friend wants to go to college he can use the line that I used. "I'm going so I can support myself pioneering." or "I want to go to Bethel with a skill to contribute." Hopefully he'll learn enough critical thinking skills there that he will think himself right out of the "truth". Interestingly for myself, once I had the necessary skill they were looking for at Bethel I was offended by the notion that they would want me for the education they discouraged me from attaining. Once you start thinking like that there is no turning back.
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insearchoftruth
http://www.jwsupportforum.com/index.php?topic=806.0 has been posted in JW Support, may have what you are looking for!
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MissingLink
Awake! 1969 May 22 p.15
If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. Why not? Because all the evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. Of the generation that observed the beginning of the 'last days' in 1914, Jesus foretold: 'This generation will by no means pass away until all these things occur.' Therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way towards its finish, if not actually gone! This is why parents who base their lives on God's prophetic Word find it much more practical to direct their young ones into trades that do not require such long periods of additional schooling… True, those who do not understand where we are in the stream of time from God's viewpoint will call this impractical. But which is really practical: preparing yourself for a position in this world that soon will pass away? or working toward surviving this system's end and enjoying eternal life in God's righteous new order?