You see its free labor.
Makes you mad.
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.
by WingCommander 65 Replies latest jw friends
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Rattigan350
If one goes to university or into the hospital and what one does for work is no one's business. People need to not tell others in the congregation.
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Vidiot
When I was growing up, my Dad was proud to be part of a “Worldwide Body of True Christians”. He and my Mom were loyal JWs, but my mom was educated, and they sent me to college.
When I started hearing more and more anti-education rhetoric from the platform throughout the 90s, however, it got to the point where I’d say to myself, “if they keep this up, they’re gonna and up with a ‘Worldwide Body’ of morons…”
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TonusOH
WingCommander: Every chance I had to be in gifted or Honors/AP classes in school was squashed by the JW's influence over my brainwashed parents.
Yep. I was moved out of an honors program in High School and put on a vocational track, because there was no way my mother was going to let us go to college. I lucked out, though. The engineering course I took had just added BASIC programming as an item, and I found my calling. Still, I ended up doing entry-level jobs for several years (why start a career in a world about to end?). Got lucky again when my workplace started buying more PCs and needed someone to help manage them. Within a few years, I had the career that I had been running away from. I hopped on that train and I never looked back.
My mother griped about my career ambitions until she learned how much money I could make as an IT professional (my salary increased by more than 50% over an eighteen-month period, and before I knew it, I was "middle class"). She never stated her approval of my having a career, mind you. She simply stopped griping because she liked that we had money and did not have to scrimp and save anymore. She lucked out too, I guess. But she has never expressed gratitude or appreciation for it.
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Riley
I just re-watched this video. The shocking part is there is no reference to daughter as being an independent person who is capable of making her own. They didn't seem to need her input on any of this.
Has anyone ever shown this to an active JW for input. My wife is a total kool-aid drinker expect for the education issue. We actually have a college fund started. I wonder how it would go over.
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LongHairGal
RATTIGAN350:
You are right that it is nobody’s business in the congregation (or anywhere else for that matter) whether somebody goes to college, goes to the hospital or has a career. This is a major issue in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I felt this way years ago when I was in the religion and these people stuck their noses where it did not belong. These idiots tried to be all up in my business. (Maybe they do this more with women(?) I tried to keep the busybodies at bay and I ended up not being invited because they are hooked on control and are angry if they don’t get it.