Всем миром к добру и объединению! Перевод субтитров интернет-акции / All Together for Good and Unity Online Campaign. Subtitle translation: "О счастье и объединении". Свидетели Иеговы.

"The system divides, and people unite!" Anastasia Novykh.

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As part of the "All Together for Good and Unity!" project,

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AllatRa TV & ALLATRA International Public Movement present:

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"About Happiness and Unification". Aleksandr Nikolaevich Zhechev,
an authorised representative of the religious community

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of Jehovah Witnesses of the city of Kirovograd.
Valery Aleksandrovich Ivanov.

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– Good afternoon, thank you very much
for agreeing to answer

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questions that are topical
for each person today.

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Could you, please, introduce yourself.
– My name is Aleksandr Nikolaevich.

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I'm a representative of the
Jehovah Witnesses religious organisation

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– I'm Valery Aleksandrovich.

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– The first question that
I'd like to ask you is this:

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how many young
people, including parents

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with children, visit your temple?
– Well, we don't have this statistics

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about the number of young people
or elderly couples. We can

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tell you, for example, that
in Ukraine the number of believers of

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Jehovah Witnesses are 150,000 people.
Worldwide, this figure equals

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7,900,000+ people.

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This figure includes
men, women, children,

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and teenagers. Those
who can comprehend

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information that is offered
at our meetings.

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– We are here because of
another problem, which

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exists in today's
society. A survey

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was held in Ukrainian schools

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among children aged 6-15 years old,
and the result of this survey,

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we think, is depressing.
Why? Because the younger

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the child is, the easier
he talks about the subject

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of the soul and God. He knows
about this mission.

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At least that doesn't
cause any reactions in him

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or thinking. That is,
he simply knows it. But

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the older the child gets,
the more closed he becomes.

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He is shy of talking
about God and the soul.

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I'd like to ask you if you are aware
of such a problem.

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We would also like to ask you
maybe you could suggest

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steps to solve this problem,
how to, say, raise the level of spirituality

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among children and teenagers?
– Yes, without a doubt, we know

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about this problem, but as far
as raising a child at school goes,

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that's more, as it was written
in the Bible, in Deutoronomy

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already in ancient times:
"God laid

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these responsibilities on parents."
In fact, education at school

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prepares a child
for future life, so that

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he can get to know society,
while spiritual upbringing

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is fully assigned to parents.
At that, Deutorology

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says that, first of all,
parents should get to know

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the creator himself, his norms,
and only then will they be able to

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impart the right norms and
give the right knowledge

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about the creator which will later
help children develop natural

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relationships with the creator.
In other words, that's the first step

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as far as school goes.

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I'd like to add just
a little bit on why that's right.

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Because for children starting
from early childhood,

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