i think it's from '05.
Gerrit Losch on YouTube: Going to college is like putting a gun to head
by truthseeker 16 Replies latest jw friends
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minimus
Keep em barefoot and pregnant, uneducated and dumb.
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Frank75
Yeah!
"We are not masters over your faith" we are more like Dictators over it!!
What BS!
Frank75
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DeusMauzzim
Best reply to this would be to attend university and come out as an informed, intelligent and well-balanced individual.
A slap in the face of the W*tchtower.
Deus Mauzzim
(whose studies start again in one week yeah! )
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Enjoying freedom
How do the WT society think that their morally questionnable legal advisers obtained their degrees?
By attending the theocratic ministry school? Or by being given the privilege of handing the microphones round at the kingdumb hall??
Yeah right!
When I was a JW I did an NVQ at the local college (got a LOAD of grief for doing it!).
Have now left the JWs, and just graduated from university with a masters in law (LLM) - and been promoted! Well worth it!
Have to say that my time at university in the last couple of years has not caused me to start a downward spiral of heavy drinking, drug taking and violence!!!!!
If anything would turn an individual to despair, drink and drugs it would be to continue as a JW! In my opinion!!!
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DannyHaszard
Watchtower contempt for higher education http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/136879/1.ashx This is from Saturday afternoon program. The speaker first starts with what he called the "alphabet soup" of degrees....A.A., B.A., M.A., Ph.D., etc.; he said they were nothing more than "sheepskins on the wall." One of his closing comments was that at Armageddon, educated people will be able to add a few more letters after their names...D.E.A.D. ....ah...yes, everyone laughed and clapped. How very Christian. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/133804/1.ashx JWD long piece by Barbara Anderson
"A MIND is a TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE"
Yes,indeed anyone (USA), my age (49) grew up with this TV ad slogan from the:United Negro college fund.
It drives home the point how much normal worldly people appreciate the value of higher education.
By the same degree that non-JW's promote a college degree the Watchtower cult has despised it.
To the Watchtower defender:
Show us "proof" in their own publications of the Watchtower encouraging higher education.
Yes,the Watchtower cult wants their followers to be uneducated passive dumb sheep,they denounce worldly and "independent thinking" at every church service.
Just like they are rabid against the free flow of information on the Internet (like I'm posting right now) they don't want their followers to be 'enlightened' by higher education.
In 1984 a 19 y.o. publisher from the Rockland Massachusetts Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses was granted 'exemption' from the elders to attend a 2 year stint at the New England school of broadcasting.
I can remember this clearly and there was even a service meeting talk on how exceptions could be made in this 'special case' because the boy's unbelieving worldly father demanded it.
Anyone who has been a JW for decades like myself knows that college education was a defiant act which surely would get you sanctioned by the congregation.
We had a popular slogan called the "13 year plan" which was 12 years of public school which could include the vocational 'trade' schools,then one year of regular pioneering THEN you could get married.
Anyone who didn't abide by theses rules was less than exemplary.
"Less than exemplary" was a code word for congregation sluggard.
Now that the Watchtower is in dire straits for cheating millions of followers out of higher education with the "deliverance is at hand" slogan (still the 2006 district convention theme) the Watchtower is using apologist to discredit old timers who have been there.
Worldly secular statistics show the UU Unitarian universalism church as the most educated at 55% of members with a college degree and the Jehovah's Witnesses at 5%. The Watchtower NOW has lessened up the restrictions as the 'new system' is on hold and the younger JW generation won't tolerate the janitorial jobs of their parents.
Although they have recently changed their policy so that at least a technical education is now seen as appropriate, the vast majority of Witnesses still have a high school education or less, and any change in their education level will take years before it has any effect on the Society. Only 4.7 percent have been to college compared to over 49.5 percent for Unitarians 46.7 for Jews and 39.3 percent for Episcopalians (Kosmin and Lackman, 1993).
This DUMB DUB phenomena is consistent with the destructive cult practice of "Milieu Control" to keep it's members dumb 'barefoot N pregnant'
In 33 years of active Jehovah's Witnesses contacts 1957-1992 among thousands of members,I found a college education is probably slightly less common than a military record.
Remember that JW's totally shun military service,so anyone who had been in the army (same with college) would have been an adult new recruit and not 'born in' like me. -