It truly is sad Terry, in one of the fruitless conversations I had with my totally brainwashed regular pioneer mom, she finally said "well if what I am doing (pioneering) proves to be wrong or a waste of time I don't care, because I believe it's doing good and I will do it till the day I die", need I say more? the bastards at the top have promoted this useless pioneering idiocy to give people a sense of importance and a sense that they are doing something to win Jehovah's approval, but in reality it only satisfies the R & F's desire of feeling superior to others who cannot or do not want to participate in this activity. And the WTS Publishing Co. gets these poor blind people to keep pushing this crappy literature and gets the other regular R & F to want to become pioneers so that they can also bask in the glory.
Hence, the stooooopid pioneer schools with their special secret books and all that nonsense. It's so funny, and sad in hindsight the exhilaration my mom would feel in those things, she would come back from that and you couldn't shut her up about the precious spiritual food that Jehovah had served on their table those days . Then she would tease us about the exclusive priviledge to special information by means of some stupid pioneer book that now I know is nothing more than a condensation of Watchtower articles and other JW literature about preaching. She really refused to let my sister and I see the dumb book, because if we wanted one then we would have to become regular pioneers ourselves and then we could enjoy this spiritual banquet!!!!! AAAAARRRGGGGGHHHH what BULSHIT!!!
Thanks for this thread Terry, it's a keeper!
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