this topic reminded me. i was on the phone a few nights ago with an old friend and she wanted to take her son to the mall and invited a girl his age to go with them.
the mother freaked out and didn't want to 'encourage' the kids to be together.
my friend told me about how she explained it was innocent, etc., they were 14.
anyway, psycho mom is definitely setting her daughter up to be the KHJW slut w/ that attitude. and it felt so good to hear b/c that part of my life is so far from me.
i remember having a vespa w/ The Birthday Party sticker on it, nick cave's original band.
i got crap for that b/c it advocated pagan birthday parties.
i got pulled into the elder's room b/c someone witnessed me wearing a t-shirt with a man smoking a cigarette on it....it was a nick cave shirt and the cigarette was small.
the counsellings re: my hair, my sideburns, djing and playing possibly satanic music, going to concerts where worldly people are....all the running commentary on every aspect of my life and everything i cared about, music, film, writing.
fortunately, the books i was reading, literary fiction, wasn't a factor since most jws are pretty illiterate when it comes to reading for fun.
then i was writing for a film webzine and they couldn't shut the hell up about every movie i was reviewing, questioning if they were films a christian should see. since it was film festival coverage, none of the films had MPAA ratings yet, which most people don't realize is a lobbying process in itself....so one film rated-r could be someone in the MPAA having a beef with a studio exec, etc. the idiocy of the WTBTS buying into the rating system of the united states which is completely flawed is pathetic.
when i started getting flack for my film writing, i lost it...had enough, was completely done and started a literary webzine and wrote violent erotic stories. i wrote those as a big FU to the years and years of constant speculation on how christian i wasn't being. they finally cracked the nut. my sponge was over saturated and i was fed up.
anyway, even writing those stories was giving into being influenced by 'them'...and it's been years since i even thought about it and my craft of writing has been tamed down and explores more subtle themes. but when my old friend brought up her experience, i had to laugh at myself b/c it's just a world that i don't even know anymore. the world where i went to see the thrill kill kult and had an instant elders meeting a week later, while they wouldn't even talk to me about the other tragedies in my life b/c it had nothing to do with keeping the congregation "clean".
oh, a friend of mine in a band got written up in a newspaper, and he said, 'god bless america' in a joking manner for beers and women. he got the running commentary on how horrible that was to say.
i said, he should've asked if she read my article on the church of satan presenting black christmas in the same newspaper.
we had a laugh.
it's sooo nice to be beyond this.
btw, i was talking to an ex-jw tonite at a bar and he said that prince wasn't a wit anymore. i haven't heard anything on that and i remember recently hearing he's taking time off to study the bible with the wits or something. anyone hear about this?
if marilyn manson ever became a witness, no if nick cave became a witness, i'd die. he used to have a fanzine that was designed like the watchtower and said 'announcing nick caves...." somethign or other. they go for way too much money on ebay now, i should've bought them when they were $6.
