DLJ,
it's amusing to read your posts. You have achieved a remarkable level of delirium not often seen in a JW youth. Your parents and other superiors must allow for your unique abilities and shy away from re-directing your ambitions for whatever reasons. However, you do not yet have a grasp on the way things really are among the Wordlwide Association.
I must concur with Lurkernomore and re-state that to most JW's you have not correctly applied the counsel of the F&DS with respect to higher learning and seeking the Kingdom first. If your father does indeed have a college degree and you live at home it is hard to fathom why you have not chosen to pursue a career in the Full-Time Ministry. The end is real soon now and the most important work you can be doing is the field ministry. By stating that you will pursue the ministry after you have secured the necessary training to support yourself secularly you have betrayed your lack of confidence in Jehovah's ability to provide for your needs.
If you really have the pioneer spirit you will forsake all else and get busy along with the rest who are showing a sacrificing spirit and stop doubting Jah's power. If you want to attend college you will find a way to schedule your life so that you can do both pioneering and college at the same time. Your goal should be to gain those skills you said your father cannot pass on to you, which should be possible at a good voacational center or community college, and in not more than two years. But you should consider closely the example of those who have taken on manual cleaning jobs, which is a respectable profession often easily procured by honest and hardworking servants of God, and are pioneering at the forefront of Kingdom activity. If you put it off you may never get to enjoy the priviledge Jehovah is holding out to you now.
After having been used by the Society numerable times on Circuit Assemblies in my youth I can tell you that the only acceptable goal is to pursue Kingdom interests as Pioneer, Missionary, or Bethelite. If you are not able to pioneer you had better be supporting your parents and working to become a MS and then an Elder. Putting your trust in a college education is a direct reflection of your lack of trust in Jehovah's ability to provide your needs. If you are paying off bills for electronics and swimming pools you cannot expect God's hand to aide you unless you are pioneering.
If you have any other thought you are not being spiritual and are proving to be weak. Jehovah will discipline you by letting you wallow in materialistic misery unless you adjust your thinking and pursuits to be in line with God's Spirit Directed Organization. Never forget that the end is coming quickly and there is no time for college. Get out there and preach before it is too late!
This is the party line and is enforced by the elders in most communities around the world. The articles in the WT about college should not be taken as license to avoid the immediate need of pioneering and the wordlwide educational work. If Bethel needs computer progammers they will train them. Stop trying to direct God's hand and get busy with the work!
Sean
