JW's And Education

by snowbird 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  snowbird

  When I was in school, acquiring a good, all-around education was stressed constantly.

  Math, English, science, history, civics, even the Bible were taught by competent instructors.

  I worked hard, made good grades, and scored well on the ACT.

  Then, the JW's came a-callin' and I took after them like a duck after a June bug!

  Soon, I noticed with misgivings, that many in the congregation discounted education - some of the speakers' grammar was atrocious!

  If I expressed dismay at this, I was given disapproving looks and counseled on the importance of not being puffed up with pride.

  Of course, I had nothing of which to be proud, having come recently from the cotton fields, but no one took notice of that. What was important was that I "readjust" my thinking and "make my mind over," which simply meant conforming to WT thought.

  Looking back, those 31 years I was associated with the JW's were completely fruitless.

  Sylvia
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  OUTLAW

  Sylvia Good Morning!!..

  You post brings 2 things to mind..

  Promotion of Ignorance and Slavery..

  .......................OUTLAW
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  snowbird

  Hello, Outlaw!

  Exactly!

  It's amazing how much WT resembles the plantation/tenant system under which I came of age.

  Rutherford grew up on a farm - I wonder if he or his parents practiced sharecropping?

  Sylvia
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  OUTLAW

  Sylvia..

  William Miller fought in the Civil War..The Millerites are the begining of the WBT$..

  The WBT$ taught Black people would turn White..There has been open prejudice against Blacks at Bethel though the years..

  There is no doubt,the USA Slave Era..Influenced the working structure of the WBT$..

  Sell dem Watchtower books and don`t get to any edjucat`in.. It will only cunfuse you!!.....Do-Da!..Do-Da!..

  

  ...................... ...OUTLAW
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  snowbird

  ROFL at Outlaw!

  You are so right!

  Sylvia
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  White Dove

  Ever since finishing my undergraduate degree at a traditionally Black college and learning all sorts of things about the culture, the word "overseer" gives me a bad taste in my mouth. It sounds all wrong and overlording. The slaves were forbidden to learn to read or write for fear they'd learn something and become unmanageable. Yeah, like they'd learn that they are every bit as human as white people. The WTS is afraid the rank and file will learn that the GB are just humans with the same access to their god as the rank and file. They would learn that they are being deceived.
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  snowbird

  The WTS is afraid the rank and file will learn that the GB are just humans with the same access to their god as the rank and file. They would learn that they are being deceived.

  Amen.

  Sylvia
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  llbh

  The denigration of education is about control, end of. I like you ( I think) eschewed education, I was offered a place at a very good university, but did not take it up, and put on the " new personality" , that could be construed as a mistake, and it was, but it was my choice, under the very heavy influence of the numb skull wts.

  That being said we can make changes, and educate ourselves even when older, imo education is nearly always a good thing.

  The wts teachings affect the poor and women in particular adversely, and that is pernicious and odious.

  David

  btw Hi Sylvia!
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  snowbird

  Hi back, David!

  I did, indeed, leave college to preach.

  I received my reward in full!

  LOL.

  Sylvia
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  cult classic

  My husband always says the WTS' stand on education alone should make all "minorities" run for their lives.

  The irony of this position really smacks you in the face at Bethel. Those who are favored for promotions and cushy jobs are the educated white brothers. The Bethel office is lilly white with a few sprinkles of color thrown in here and there. More often than not the educated black/hispanic witnesses are pushed aside in favor of training the white brothers. During the bethel layoffs most of those brothers were black......it was a running joke for a minute.

  And let's not even start on the subjugation of the women in the org. The bethel wives had so many psychosomatic problems from submitting to theocratic order it isn't even funny. Of course all of this is just mirrored back in the local congregations as well.

  And the whole "wait on Jehovah" when you notice something not quite right..........jeez louise

  It is indeed a very racist and sexist group and the lack of educated members ensures that it will stay that way. I would think that Jesus would have noticed the bigotry among these men before he anointed them over all of his possessions.

  Cult Classic