Posts by Liberated1

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Higher Education June 15th Watchtower 2011

by jwfacts in

"higher education: jesus warned against seeking your own glory.

(john 7:18) whatever you decide as to how much secular education you will obtain, have you made sure of the more important things?phil.

1:9,10.. grzegorz, the computer programmer, made some changes in his life.

Liberated1

Well I can remember the discouragement to go to University so despite hungering to carry on my education and the pleadings of my teachers I left to please Jehovah. I worked part-time and pioneered and hated every minute of it. What I remember at the time is that all JW's in our city left school and either pioneered or took fulltime jobs (very much frowned upon). I don't know anyone who went to University!! But around that time we got to meet a few from a congregation in another city about an hour's drive away - another university city like ours - and we were amazed that many were students with plans to get careers!! We were very shocked and thought them totally unspiritual - that's how brainwashed we were!!

I'm 48 now and have been out for 21 years. I have never had a career as such and done plenty of crappy jobs. I regret totally not doing higher education and wonder if going to university WOULD have led me astray from the 'truth'. Because I wish I had even more as I wouldn't have wasted so much of my life in it.

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Is America going to allow another Turkish atrocity? ... escalation?

by Simon in

in their rush to bomb iraq, it seem that america has cut a deal with turkey to allow overflights, thus allowing b52's from the uk to launch cruise missiles etc ... .

the turkish army is moving into northern iraq !!.

10,000 troops.

Liberated1

'Is America going to ALLOW?'

Who put America in charge?

Oh, I forgot, America did.

'Turkey better keep it's self -serving ass out of Iraq.'..replace 'Turkey' with 'America 'and that statement is spot on.

Turkey has stated it's intentions to block a rush of refugees and has put troops in place to do that. Kurdish leaders have stated they have a 'shoot to kill' policy if the Turks enter their territory.

Of course Turkey has it's own agenda and will use the situation to serve a purpose but how is that different from what is already happening?

Keep your eyes on the real abusers of human rights - the ones that pretend they are the good guys while scheming to overpower and control the whole world. Bush is just a puppet dancing to their tune but if we're not careful we ALL will be pretty soon.