Driven by panic, the Governing Body's current theme continues to dominate their magazines
and assemblies: the next generation of young Witnesses are "leaving the truth" and must be
stopped!
The most recent "Special Assembly Day" was more of the same - with the added emphasis
to avoid going to college. The speaker said that a college education was unnecessary
for Bethel service and gave examples of speedily gained careers like becoming a massage
therapist, so as to avoid college.
The simple fact is that the uneducated and those that are exhausted by trying to make a
living in a marginal career are easier for the Society to control. The recent "allowance"
for Witness kids to attend college came about as a direct result of Bethel hypocrisy.
The Society was forced to send some Bethelites to college to meet its own needs
and word about this got around, impelling them to "allow" ordinary Witness kids to
go to college - if they promised to pioneer ( a promise often forgotten once the kid
is unchained from sterile Watchtowerism).
The real victims in this are the Witness parents who can not be protected from
this sort of fraud that is shielded by the the First Amendment. While the leaders of
Enron and others must face prosecution, the Watchtower is free to demand that Witness
children be raised by their harsh standards, knowing full well that the overwhelming
majority will reject the organization, together with the real loss of friends and
family which that entails. If child baptism is wrong, why is baptism of teenagers right?
Can most teenagers successfully choose a life career or marriage mate? Why then
place such a cruel and unrealistic burden on them, so that they now can be
disfellowshipped and cast off by their families? Why should the Watchtower get away
with endlessly proclaiming that parents should "train their children from infancy",
knowing that the process is dominated by failure and heartache?
If there was a way to make it widely known - and believed by - ordinary Witnesses,
the Society's internal statistics on what percentage of Witness kids leave the "truth"
(85%+?), could be more devastating to the general faith of JWs than any other
exposure. You can always say that 'apostates' made up stories about abuse,
or that the Society needed a UN library card but exposure of this continuing failure
could cripple the organization. Witness parents see too much evidence around them
to be able to contend "with the inevitable", if it became widely known. Indeed, the
Governing Body may be in fear of this - besides the long term threat of the organization's
next "lost generation".
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