by liam 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Mrs and me are nothings
Not much formal education other than high school and reading awake magazines.
We are both ostracized inside and out of the congregation
Played the cards we were dealt in life and came out well financially
Work ethic and money management. Exercising self control and being diligent and reliable pretty much did it for us
We learned the skills we needed along the way
HOSER:
Don’t ever call yourself ‘nothing’ either because you weren’t extensively educated or held in high esteem by the Jehovah’s Witness religion. You did fine.
I, myself, was never held in high regard by the Witnesses because I worked full-time. I was raised Roman Catholic so maybe that is why this did not sway me.. I came into the JW religion with healthy self-esteem that everybody should have.. The JWs were bothered by this and because I didn’t take up the ‘suggested’ housecleaning and pioneering which they mostly pushed on women.
Today, I thank God I never did this!
To myself I wondered what all the fanfare was about with JWs striving for titles as their titles had No meaning in the real world!
I have that experience. Elder Super Righteous was allowed to send his son to college with no problems. But for my family since my father was not an elder or even a servant, I wanted to go to trade school. It was the big FU by the elders. Especially by Elder Super Righteous. You can say that all hell broke loose when I signed into the Navy. Didn't matter I was never considered a publisher or even on the school.
But would a person trained as an electrician want to do the wider range of career options that the degree would offer?
And why would they not?
As "a person trained as an electrician", I could think of many reasons why they may want to.
Each to their own, certainly - but when it comes to career choice, there is no such thing as "one size fits all". What right does a handful of old wanks in New York have to mandate that no young person may undertake university studies?
What’s worse?
stuck in a university when tragedy befalls you or just plain stuck when tragedy befalls you?
Hoser notified us, "We learned the skills we needed along the way."
OK, yes, that is a GOOD THING, but no one gets to be a medical doctor with a casual, unstructured like that.
Nathan Natas
Neither my wife nor I were born with the intelligence or family background to become medical doctors.
We were just not university material and there are only so many openings in the system for specialized training and the university obviously takes the best candidates. Basically a rare few can be doctors. The rest of us have to figure it out on our own.
Neither me nor my wife are ashamed of our abilities or disabilities depending on how you look at it,
I am definitely pro education but it has to be focused on a marketable skill and monetized. In addition to that the money has to be managed properly unless you want to be flat assed broke when you are 70 years old.
I can never understand that Watchtower likes to keep their people dumb and stupid and rake in as much money from them as possible. Would it be better for Watchtower to have their people educated with good jobs so then they can Really get money from their members!?!
The argument used to be that extending education is pointless because the end is so near. If the new argument is that your family might need you while you’re away getting an education, that’s a pivot that downgrades end-time expectations as the motivating factor.
It's still not clear to me just what "stuck in a university" means. Does it mean students can't leave campus when the need arises? That's absurd. Does it mean that there's a distance between the campus and the parents' home? That's what airline and/or automobile travel is/are for.
Furthermore, about half of university students attend a local campus in a city environment and many live with their parents or in nearby housing while doing so. Just how is "stuck in a university" to be understood here? Was that phrase used in the assembly program?
