A Bethel Memory #21 - You can lead an elder to college but you can't make him think (page 5)

Lunatic Faith

Thanks for another great story! And I am glad you are Living the Dream!!

My hubby and I both started college this last fall. We are 38 and 40 years old. When I realized this organization did not have the truth (only a few months ago) I panicked because I thought my life was over and there wasn't enough time to do what I have always wanted to do. But once the shock wore off, I realized it's never too late to get started.

I had had one year of vocational school, but my hubby had never graduated High School. We are both determined to get our Bachelor's degrees and make sure the next generation in our family knows college is a MUST! It still burns me up, though, when I hear JW's discouraging kids from going to college. Haven't they learned anything?

LivingTheDream

Lunatic Faith,

You guys sound like quick learners to me if you just realized the problem with the so-called Truth a few months ago and you are ALREADY doing something about it. Very nice indeed.

I was thinking today about Colonel Sanders and how he pretty much failed at everything most of his life. He never even cooked a chicken until 40 and his first chicken business failed and he was broke again in his 60s. He became the iconic figure we all know now in his 70s AFTER he didn't give up and went at it again. His mug is plastered in every part of the world now. Winston Churchil had a similar experience and there are MANY people that had their best years and greatest sucesses very late in life. Christopher Columbus was 50 when he discovered America which doesn't sound that "late" until you take into account the average life expectancy back then was barely 30. He should have been dead of old age, but instead he made the history books.

I believe my best years are ahead of me and I suspect yours are too.

LivingTheDream

Lunatic Faith

I loved the little taste of college I got a decade ago and have always wanted to go back. After we lost some work last spring, I decided it was as good a time as any. So we signed up for the following term. My hubby was already out of the JW religion but I was still holding on. By the time we actually started classes I was catching up to him.

I have been so grateful to have school to fill the empty times I used to devote to service and meetings! Our goals aren't very grandiose. We want to support ourselves with writing and live, basically, like nomads. Something we couldn't do as JW's. For the first time in my life I actually feel optimistic about my future because I am in control of it!

"The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: 'I did not have time'"--Franklin Field

makersmark

aude, wing and living : thanks so much for the reply and experiences! - as you can appreciate - i have a lot of thinking and mind-fixing to do........

life is to short

wing Commander

When you wrote this part of you thread, you put into words what I feel.

( "It's not so much that I feel sorry for myself, but I feel so robbed and conned.....violated really, but a bunch of people who in the grand scheme of things, are nobodies who wield power of 6 million people with seeming impunity. It's disgusting and mentally frustrating that our lives were dictated and interferred with in such a manner. ")

This is why I love Living the Dreams post because he gives us or at least me hope that life can be different. Also I am so screwed up in the thoughts on religion, I do not know what I believe. But if there is a God would he not want us to be happy instead of not enjoying this life like I was at least raised to believe. I was always told this is not the real life and not to enjoy it just endure it until the new system.

Really that is all my life is just an endurance test. It truly makes God seem like a hateful God in many ways. Why put us on this beautiful earth and give us a brain to throw away doing the preaching work of calling on people who do not want us there in the first place.

I am trying to find out what I was meant to do, it is hard at my age because I bought into all the garbage until just two years ago, I truly do not know what I want to do as I never gave it any thouhgt before.

It is just really scary.

LITS

Anyway, I'm pumped that you are working from home and traveling on the company's dime. Good for you. I am glad you didn't listen to the "pockfaces" in your life...

Spread the word!

Brock Talon

A Bethel Memory #21 - You can lead an elder to college but you can't make him think

Lunatic Faith

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