You Need To Give Credit To The Society For Your Education

by The wanderer 46 Replies latest jw friends

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  The wanderer

  You Need To Give Credit To The Society For Your Education.

  The Watchtower and Awake magazines have been helping individuals receive a G.E.D
  or high school diploma. Where did you learn the art of public speaking?
  
  You learned it through the Watchtower Society.

  Discipline and study were always the primary foundations of the organizations apart from
  the field ministry.
  
  If you followed the counsel from the Society, you and your children should have excelled
  in the art of speaking, studying, responsibility and discipline.

  It is saddening to see the lack of honesty some have toward not giving the Society credit were credit is due.

  Signed,

  Your former brothers

  How would you respond to this letter?

  Respectfully,

  The Wanderer
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  eclipse

  I'd laugh!

  I'd also hand them a figurative shovel.

  Since when have the WT mags helped anyone get a G.E.D.?

  I have never heard of that.

  maybe I am out of the loop.

  I'd tell them that if they believe that sh!t, then they wouldn't know a real education if it hit them in the face.
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  littlerockguy

  Oh believe me I certainly give credit to the WTS for educating me on how to be a master at manipulation and mind control, how to be devious, how to lie by omitting facts and putting a spin on facts to make them anything but what they really are. They taught me to be cynical and skeptic; very healthy traits that will help me know when somebody throws bullshit my way.
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  RunningMan

  That's like crediting the horoscope or the National Inquirer with helping to build reading skills. I mean, sure you have to read the things, and reading is good, but that's pretty thin gruel.
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  icyestrm

  I'm not the typical JW. I finished all of my higher education before being contacted by the JWs maybe thats why I get shunned for being *smart*
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  nvrgnbk

  I'd say something quite eloquent...................like............bite me. LOL!

  I learned to read from The National Geographic.

  All the Witnesses did was hold me back.

  They want you "smart" enough to work for them and "dumb" enough to stay.
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  OnTheWayOut

  Any good the Society taught me was for the purpose of exploiting it.

  Yes, I learned some things while I was a dub. Saying to give credit
  to the Society is really not much better than a slavemaster who
  uses the whip, saying "Stop trying to run away, don't I give you a
  place to sleep and put food in your bowl? Don't I give you time to
  rest inbetween tasks? Don't I let you drink all the water you need?
  Didn't you learn how to harvest from me?"

  Even the skill he actually learned, he would never be able to profit
  from unless he broke away from the plantation or unless slavery
  was abolished.

  If I learned public speaking and some interesting facts about
  penguins from the AWAKE, what good is that if I am feeling guilty
  that I am not pioneering or moving where the need is great? As soon
  as I apply my public speaking ability, the Society goons tell me that
  I am seeking "worldly" goals.

  That is how I would respond. (You need bold examples- why do I
  keep thinking of using slavery as one of them?)
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  collegegirl21

  I don't give them full credit. I was in school and learned how to do some of that stuff on my own too. But I do give them credit for helping to be able to give presentations in front of people and how to talk in front of groups.
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  NewYork44M

  I give them partial credit for public speaking skills.

  I give them a big fat Zero or even a big negative related to learning skills. I continued my education and completed an advanced degree. In the process I realized how horrible my comprehension skills were. I read the wt literature for years and never had to comprehend anything. It was just a matter of shoveling manure around. Same concept at meetings. You hear words, but are discuraged from actually critically processing these words.

  Once I started taking education serious, I had to learn how, read and listen for comprehension. I had to think critically. None of these skills are taught by the society.
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  Mariusuk.

  Discipline and study were always the primary foundations of the organizations apart from
  the field ministry.

  The education clearly does not extend to grammar. Organisation's uses a possessive apostrophe