Nicodemus,
I had the opportunity to take advantage of several University scholarships. My Presiding Overseer had to visit my high school counselor in my Senior year and explain to him that the end of this system of things was coming in 1975 and that I needed to devote my very young life to full-time magazine-selling. (This was in 1966.) My school counselor sighed and I could tell he thought we were goofy. We were. My former Presiding Overseer is now a bitter older man (albeit fairly silent about it), but still a loyal dub. His Son is even more bitter. He is 11 years younger than me and he was robbed of the same opportunities at the same young age. Fortunately, the Son I mentioned is no longer a dub, but the damage was still done.
To both of us. Fuck the Watchtower Society and their minions and all the horses they rode in on.
May they get their just deserts, sooner or later. They are liars, charletans, pretenders to God's Grace and authority, manipulators, cowards, and downright scumbags.
And a few other things, too. I didn't mention the bad things they are, either. Like murderers in God's Name.
Sorry, Nico. I've always appreciated your posts and your balanced way of dealing with issues. I still do. I just have my own tack on the WTS and what it has become since circa 1938.
Farkel