did any of you guys disregard the wt recommendations and pursue a career.
if you answer "yes": was your journey easy?
are you happy with the end result?
A professor once said to me, "I'm not here to teach you. I'm here to teach you how to learn."
Young congregation members developing a love of learning is bound to lead them to the fact that they've been lied to. Denying college to Jehovah's Witness youth is the equivalent of the dumbing down of the masses, when the masses are already lacking basic knowledge of the world.
storm desmond - how kindness is keeping cumbria afloat.
read here:.
today, we are grateful to receive warnings that help us not to have a selfish attitude like that of most in the world.
Authentic friendship is never going to happen in the cesspool of, "What is this person's motive?" Since when is an agenda part of casual conversation among the general population? It is the Jehovah's Witness clear cut motive to engage in conversation with worldly outcasts only to share their beliefs. There is no reciprocation during which the worldly person shares ideas as the Witness listens with intent to learn. The Witness is waiting to speak again, with no respect for the speaker's words.
Who wants to form relationships with no capacity for growth because the intellectual goon across the table will always be lobbying for Jehovah? That's a stage set for the same circular conversation each time.
They learn nothing because they have no insight into what it means to listen. We learn nothing due to the ignorant and solely repetitious nature of feeble attempts at mind control. Lose-lose.
in this experiment, mice were given a perfect environment in which to live.
for the mice you would think this was 'paradise'.
but due to their nature it did not take long for this to become a horrible place to live.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z760xny4vm.
With no death to make room for new life, the entire concept of "living forever on a Paradise Earth" is not possible. How is this not obvious to anyone who considers eternal life?
Space stations, lunar and planetary colonies aren't options for two reasons. 1) It's Paradise on Earth, not space.
2) No human being with the intelligence to make room for a perpetually expanding population would ever read The Watchtower.
i know many jws that state that the watchtower corporation is the 'closest to the truth'.
thus they quiet their cognitive dissonance.. i don't have access to a corporation library any more.
is this a stance that the watchtower corporation has actually claimed?.
A quest for "The Truth" would include rational thinking, conference with those holding different views, a record of every footstep and corner taken to determine what is true, and a willingness to be wrong.
Otherwise, a belief doesn't even qualify as an educated hypothesis. It's all posturing and creation stories.
Truth can't exist where ignorance reigns.
