CO training video: Link to Ex-JW Reddit thread discussion
Today is the first time I was made aware of this actual Elder Body video. It's training for how a CO should handle Elder's whose children decide to pursue further education. The above link is like a "Part 1" or something. 5 mins.
This is an absolute Master Class in cult control tactics thru F.O.G. = Fear, Obligation, and Guilt.
Imagine, being summoned to a private meeting with your fellow volunteer religious non-clergy (Cough, cough) to discuss (AKA: interrogated) the unforgivable SIN of "allowing" your grown-ass children to decide for themselves, to seek out and pursue "higher education"! (Gasp!)
First off, I'd never allow such a meeting to even take place. I'd straight up tell these clowns to mind their own damn business, and that's it's a family matter that doesn't require their input, at ALL. Case closed. By I digress. So right off the bat, I believe Brother Bald CO to be a limp-dicked low-testosterone beta company TOOL. He goes right into how somehow dad is responsible for the "conscious of the Congregation", how his decision to let his kids attend higher education looks bad, blah, blah, blah. I mean really; like anyone gives a shit if someone else's kids go to college or university? These people need to get a fuggin' life!
Next: I luv how they portray the Elduh Father who's basically on trial here by his "friends" in the Elduh Body. Crossed arms, defensive, and frankly probably sick of all this bullshit by now. He probably wants to quit the Body already, but can't because his Pioneer Elderette wife would never let him hear the end of it. (her only status in life is being married to a position of power, sad AF!)
So, we've got Elder Brown-noser starting to lay into the father about how his kids only want to a better life now instead of pursing spiritual interests, etc. This is right where if I were the father, the thing I'd point-blank ask these clowns is this: "So, is WatchTower going to pay their bills? Rent? Food? Medical? Car? Insurance? No, than you get to have ZERO say in any of this. STFU, mind your own business, and good-bye!" (then proceed to get up immediately and leave, hence ending meeting)
Elder Brown-noser than proceeds to claim congregation members are "confused about what the Organization has said previously about higher education." No shit? Say it ain't so? Confused about doctrine, policy, man-made rules? Thy name is WatchTower! This cult is now so insular, so cocooned up their cult-compound, that they are completely tone-deaf and unaware as to how they sound. They truly cannot hear themselves speaking! Hey WatchTower: YOU are the ones creating the confusion! And frankly, it's something that not worth being "confused" over as it's NONE of your damn business! If you weren't so busy being a dumbass cult and micro-managing every normal aspect of human life, maybe you could put out some REAL training videos on how to address REAL life issues such as:
Dealing with victims of sexual abuse and assault, and how to properly report and get victims therapy.
Feeding the hungry
Clothing and housing orphans
Combating alcohol and drug addiction (better start at Bethel first with the AA help)
How to properly plan and balance your finances (not just give / leave it all to WT HQ upon member's death!)
Building hospitals (instead of movie studios)
Opening homeless shelters and soup kitchens
It's funny, "Christendom" has all of these programs above and MORE, but WatchTower does NONE of the above, and gives back exactly ZERO in charity to help their pauper members (much less society as a whole). Yet, they somehow instead put out these dumbass training videos focusing on non-issues such as "higher education" as-if having a working brain is from Satan himself.
Elder Effeminate now chimes in with, "Just because the members don't confront you about this, doesn't mean they aren't disturbed by what they see." Oh, so Elder Effeminate is now a mind-reader? Also, why would this personal decision "disturb them?" I swear, WT HQ equates education with shooting up meth on the sidewalk! Walking around downtown Portland is "disturbing." Your kid being accepted to Penn State is most definitely NOT. What planet are these people on? Planet Stupid, apparently. Where dumb is preferred, and smart is Baaaaaaaad!
Finally, Brother Brown is brow-beat by some scripture about qualifications. He finally "gives it back" to these chuckle-fucks, and even rubs it to the one Elder who is child-less! I nearly cheered in my seat watching his defense of himself and his family.
The CO cuts Brother Brown's defense short and attempts to diffuse it by claiming they're trying to come to the best decision for all. Huh??????? Again, these clowns make personal, family decisions into some sort of "Committee Meeting."
Guess what? It's not! It's none of their business! It's not up to "them." Period! My jaw is on the floor after watching this. The audacity of this cult, the jaw-dropping stupidity and arrogance they display. There is ZERO doubt in my mind as to how much of a high-control CULT they are. ZERO. What normal person would subject themselves to this level of intrusion into personal decisions? WT HQ needs to get a fuggin' clue, and FAST! No way in hell are people today going to put up with this...... the younger generation today absolutely know they need higher education to just to step onto the playing field, much less excel.
This forced stupidity under threat of "or else" will not fly today. People today are voting with their time, their feet, and their wallets. Big mystery as to why Conventions are nearly empty, and governments are standing up and taking notice and investigating this cult.