by zagor 19 Replies latest jw friends
I know it's not easy after you've been out of school for a few years. I didn't go until 5 years after I graduated, and I forgot so much! I had to go back and take a remedial algebra class before I could take college algebra, and I had trig and calculus in high school.
Good luck with it. I'm doing good so far (3.7 gpa), so it can be done. I had a 4.0 during the first year but I got tired of working so hard on studies while attempting to pay bills.
Thank you zulukai that was very well said.
I think JW are some of least educated people on the planet. Even jungle inhabitants know more about their environment and are more connected with it than JW are.
Mormons at leas have their own universities while JW would even take their kids out of primary schools if they could. How backward is that? And most disturbing of all they think that is completely normal. I wonder if even Amish people are that idiotic when it comes to education
Funny thing was the other day I’ve met this 50-something lady at the bus station, not knowing I was also a dub at one stage she tried to talk about religion, well in reality she was just looking for victims to unload her mags I guess, and half way through conversation she tells me how before she became a JW she was very open-minded. I just couldn’t hold it any more so I’ve asked –so what happened then? She just looked at me like suddenly waken up by fire alarm and after 2 minutes quickly found excuse to escape.
For many years I couldn’t understand their stance against education, until it finally hit me, it is much easier to control idiots. That’s the basic truth. Which fine for those in Brooklyn who will never have to work for living but what about millions of destroyed lives that have to struggle day after day working in underpaid jobs? I mean with amount of time WTS requires from every dub to devote to their cause you’d need a PhD paid job to keep it all in fine balance, wouldn’t you? I think with such idiotic attitude toward education they’ve sent many people in an early grave.
Thanks sonnyboy, yeah, I have same fears that I will not be able to measure up. But I'll give it a try anyway. Thank you for encouragement.
Zagor, are you really from Australia? If so, just apply for mature-age enrolment & enrol in a commerce/science/arts degree, which you can change to either direction when you get a feel of what you're most interested for. And the good thing is it's all paid for by HECS! I went back to uni 6 years after school, & I thought I would be at the bottom rung, especially as I got a pretty average HSC score. But I am in the top 5% of my faculty, have won scholarships, & am hoping to start my PhD next year! Anything is possible in this new life we are making for ourselves!
JW83,
Yes I am, thanks for that. Right now I'm just thinking about it, didn't do and inquiry yet. But that is really good news. I'm happy for you, good luck with your PhD too.
Good luck to you, too! Another bonus about going to uni after leaving the dubs is making new friends, & getting new interests to replace the ones we've given up. And some financial security/status in society - all the things dubs discourage. Good luck with it all!
1. Smoke some good stuff. Join a fraternity ... preferably one of the burner ones. Inhale.
2. Whatever you choose, drop it after 3 semesters. Switch majors. Look around & see which transfer will get the most credits towards a degree. Grab on!
At your age you will be considered as a mature student of whom there are plenty and universities, in the UK anyway, have a more lenient attitude towards such students.
You should consider carefully what you will enjoy studying, where your affinities lie but even if you get in a course you don't really enjoy, at worst you just exit and lose a year.
Zagor... I'd like to pass on some more info re college from the perspective of your comments about what the Borg experience may have done to your intellect. The fact that we are all here together sharing our "x"-periences with the mindless drivel we lived through should be proof enough that our thinking abilities are alive and well. We saw it and we bailed out on the spur of our insights. In Alberta, Canada one ex-jw was a university prof. with all the credentials etc. James Penton is his name. There was a nasty controvery in that province in the late '70's or early '80"s that resulted in a huge disfellowshipping orgy that got rid of many good and honest people, and he was one of the first to be chopped. He wrote something you will find very interesting. It was his experience that when ex-jw's got the chance to go to college or university they experienced the mental phenomenon of their intellects surging ahead like wildfire. Some reported their IQ's testing off the graph, acing highly technical courses, winning scholarships. What I experienced in those regards startled me, I was even called back to the testing center because the counsellor couldn't beleive that an uneducated lowly housewife and mother could obtain such scores. Needless to say to find out that I WAS intelligent after all those years of intellectual junkfood and being trivialized ala the Stepford Wife syndrome was an event much like a resurrection and I have never looked back. You already realize you have talents, proclivities and abilities that are just sitting there waiting for the light of day. You too will be pleasantly surprised and I urge you to get the ball rolling as per the many excellent ideas on this thread. College was for me personally the best time of my life..it's when I joined the real human race and real human endeavor. My dear kids helped me get through the intensive study to become an RN and it brought us together in a far deeper way because they participated in their own economic wellbeing and future comfort. One of them became a dental hygenist and today is going to Vancouver, BC to start her training for part-time Coroner for the remote coastal community she lives in. My other daughter is a pharmacy tech in charge of a large medication distribution area in a major hospital. I shudder to think of the utter waste of their lives had I not left that mindless cult. Cheers! ENJOY and welcome to the rest of your life!
thank you zulukai, thank you very much for your moving experience. You are right about everything. I've called today couple of colleges and they are going to send enrollment pack and some more material so I can see what my options are.
p.s Reading you reply to some in my family they now also have desire do go back to university. Such is the power of real the life experiences :)
