Thanks Blondie!
This article seems to be cobbling together different points toward the young.
Spiritual crap is fun. Don't ever make mistakes, just act like you're old. Illness is no excuse. Be better than your slacker parents. Only marry someone that is fully indoctrinated. Preach, preach, preach. Act happy.
Those are the points I picked out. They threw them together under one title and "scriptural theme". Much of the same ole same ole. But I think that, more than ever, they are expecting kids and adolescents to be "little adults". Just do the same as we expect of grown-ups so you boys can make MS by 14 and girls can pioneer at 13.
In the local Kingdumb Haul, I understood why Writing crammed so many points for "the youths" into one lesson. Because articles like these can get wacky in the field. Everybody in the cong thinks they're experts on what kids should and shouldn't do. It's easy to start getting crazy comments of how kids should do nothing but study and preach. Lock 'em up 'til they're 30.
Although it's intended to be motivational, at best it will be delivered as "protective", at worst it's "controlling" and "unappealing". Watchtower has nothing to offer the young except life-long slavery to corporate dogma.
Yeah, good times.
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