Anyone attend? What was disscussed? I am not an elder anymore much less a PO but I am still curious.
Special PO School
by XBEHERE 5 Replies latest jw friends
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Quirky1
A PO School? I never heard of this.
If there was one I wonder if they learned some more mind control techniques? Or maybe they are allowed more of a disciplinary punishment in the back room?
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WTWizard
Another "school" that teaches the lead hounders to become better value destroyers and to beat everyone in the congregation into becoming better value destroyers. Hopefully it is about as successful as the Great Waste Of Paper Distribution Campaign was this past March.
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XBEHERE
Well its still a Km school but for some inexplicable reason the PO's are being invited first then the rest of the "regular" elders. So much for class distinctions being non-existent in the org. My current PO showed me his invitation to it. Apparently they have to go to Paterson, NY and live there for a week while attending it.
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Seeker4
I did a thread titled: Focus of New Elder's School: How To Research - WTS Literature Only!!
This is what I wrote:
I posted this idea on another thread, but thought it might get some response as a thread of it's own.
This was the e-mail I just got about the new elder's school for POs only:
"My Dad's PO school wasn't new stuff, just a lot on studying, using the CD rom, etc. He loved it...."
Hmmm... "a lot of studying." In the light of the Sept. 07 Question Box, etc. I can pretty much tell what this school was, based on these comments: It was a weeklong course on how to use the WTS's literature, and ONLY the WTS literaure, to research questions.
That's it. "WE (WTS) have all the answers and we'll show you how to find them."
Just more demonizing of researching anything outside Witness literature. I can imagine the strong discouragement that would have been made of researching on the Internet or any other place besides the WTS CD.
The WTS's greatest fear is the open debate of ideas and free and full access to information. The elder's school, I would be willing to say, was just one more attempt to keep the rank and file from any outside influence, research or information.
Anyone else hear anything?
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still_in74
My Dad's PO school wasn't new stuff, just a lot on studying, using the CD rom, etc. He loved it...."
Hmmm... "a lot of studying." In the light of the Sept. 07 Question Box, etc. I can pretty much tell what this school was, based on these comments: It was a weeklong course on how to use the WTS's literature, and ONLY the WTS literaure, to research questions.
That's it. "WE (WTS) have all the answers and we'll show you how to find them."oh ya, and dont study any publications in your library that arent included in the latest version of the CD ROM.
It would be ironic if the CD ROM became the "preferred" resource for studying above the printed volumes. We have already seen examples of "revised" articles in the CD verses original printing. Perhaps in time we will be "reminded" that "some choose not to order bound volumes, preferring rather to use the CD ROM. For articles that one may find of particular interest they may choose to keep their personal copy of the WT available for later reference."
This would create obvious advantages for the WTS, both in control and enormous financial burdens associated with printing bound volumes.