WT needs your kids uneducated: CO training video is Master Class in F.O.G. This is jaw-droppingly stupid. Beyond moronic, it's sub-moronic. (page 3)

LongHairGal

HOSER:

I think it’s part of the unwritten culture there.

I am sure there are so many JWs with absolutely no skills and a meager education. They might be only too glad to accept a job working for a brother even if the pay is below par. What if it’s an older somebody with no car who can walk there? What if it’s a housewife who needs a little something to help pay the bills?

The brother with the business is glad to have JWs work for him because they will tolerate anything. Generally it might work except for some young brother who wants more.

LongHairGal

BALAAMSASS2:

You say she ‘banked on her looks’ to supposedly snag a better guy. Even though this is probably your opinion (I guess).. because I’d be shocked she would have actually said it - it is possible she might have believed this.

But, with the shocking story you related about what she did to you: once this was heard on the Jehovah’s Witness gossip circuit and made the rounds far and wide, her chances were nil. I think it was as you said, that suitors were scared away.

How does this relate to the OP? These things are all the end results of a cult-like religion with a tattletale culture that knocks education, careers and planning for the future.

Listener

Bro Williams says "...They understand that it's a personal decision that you have to decide but it still does not mean that your freeness of speech is not affected. In fact, the freeness of speech of the entire body of elders as well as how successful we are as shepherds has been affected as well..."

In other words, the JW has free will but their decision is questionable if the GB's instruction on higher education is not adhered to. Then as a follow on by making the wrong decision, the body of Elders qualifications are questionable.

Any free will exercised is always questionable if it's not in line with the GB.

Of course, it's not even up to the daughter to make her own decision since the father is supposed to have control over her and he is reminded of this.

What is so crazy is that if the daughter was allowed to work full time at the local supermarket or one of the Elders businesses, the exact same arguments that they have presented in this training video applies 100%.

Rivergang

@vienne

And there is definitely an associations problem

No more so, though, than a young person would experience in most workplaces.

hoser

Humans naturally don’t like other humans appearing to succeed.

They somehow feel threatened and want to drag you down to their level of mediocrity

dropoffyourkeylee

Are we sure this video is legit? I don't see or hear anything in it that surprises me; I'm sure such meetings go on and the conversation/counsel goes in that direction. But I still find it surprising they would make such a training video. It's so damning.

hoser

I’m amazed at what little reward people need to be duped into working for free.

The title of elder and keeping that title dictates entire families lives, their economic future, their children and grandchildrens future.

It isn’t even a piece of paper that you can hang on your wall.

LongHairGal

HOSER:

Yes. And not a ‘paper’ or degree you can hang on your wall that has ANY value in the real world.. And, yes, it’s true that it affects generations. Such is the result of cutting yourself off from society.

Some years ago a poster made a post I totally agreed with. He said he felt an ‘elder’ had all the importance of the president of your local book club.

Sorry if anybody on the forum would be offended at this.. But, this is how somebody like me not raised a Witness viewed it and their other titles... Couldn’t see what all the fanfare was about. Thank God I was never sold on their title of ‘pioneer’!

Ron.W.

I was told by a P.O. elder in another hall some years ago that a college educated, mature, quite wealthy couple had sold everything up to work on one of the big UK bethel building projects for what they thought would be a number of years..

Unexpectedly, six months in the couple were told by wt their free labor was no longer required -

The elder who told me this tactfully tried to convey to me that this totally PIMI X 100 couple were feeling 'slightly disillusioned'...

yes, I bet they were!!

LongHairGal

RON.W:

I am sure that mature couple was disillusioned after being kicked to the curb. I hope they find their way.

This being kicked out of the bethels in some people’s eyes is viewed as a sign of ‘going out of business’. Them being replaced by younger people won’t matter in the long run.

Just watch the YouTube videos of ‘Life After Religion’… Meanwhile, I wish JWs would wake up and stop hurting themselves and their families.. They should stop foolish things like denying their children college education, working for free and not getting decent jobs.

According to the guy in the videos the average JWs are about to be ‘royally screwed’! I find his views interesting.

WT needs your kids uneducated: CO training video is Master Class in F.O.G. This is jaw-droppingly stupid. Beyond moronic, it's sub-moronic.

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