Did you find out the hard way the advice - NEVER leave your

by hamsterbait 20 Replies latest jw experiences

  • HintOfLime
    HintOfLime
    Atheist parents have to get past questions of death too.

    This is just off the top of my head, but... "Being dead is just like going back to what it was like before you were born. You don't need to fear all that time before you had been born, nothing bad or scary happened, so why fear what will happen when you die? Every time a child is born, they are just one out of billions of possibilities, all unique, just like you and me. But the planet can only support a few of us at one time. We're lucky right now that we get to take our turn, but we can't be selfish, and claim the earth is our's forever. We have to give some of those other unique people a turn too. We have to give up our seats so that our children who we love so much can have their turn. If we're lucky, maybe we can do something now so the world is a better place for our children."

    Compare with:

    "There might be an invisible man in the sky that watches everything you do. You know what his favorite game is? Musical chairs!! Except when the music stops, if you don't get a seat, he kills you with fire, plauges, and giant holes in the ground that'll swallow you up. You know what the best part is? He makes the game even harder! Not all chairs are equal - most of them are decoy chairs! So even if you find a seat, it might not be good enough. Now, I'm assuming based on a 'good feeling' that of the thousands of potential gods, the chairs for christian gods are less decoyish than the others. Of course, most christian chairs are decoys too. You have to look really hard, and even then it might not be good enough. You have to pick the right religion, sect, and then, you have to spend your whole life hovering over the chair, making sure you never do anything with your life that might bring any distance between you and the chair. That is what life is about -hovering your butt over a chair waiting for the music to stop. 'Cause if you don't, the invisible man in the sky is going to hate you and burn you with fire."

    - Lime

  • Anne
    Anne

    Every situation is different. My mom is more of a social JW and wouldn't do anything to cross me. My dad is a rabid JW and we had it out a few years ago. He once told my 3 year old that "Jehovah makes the plants grow". Relatively harmless, but if you give an inch they will go a mile. I told my dad that if I ever even think that he is Witnessing to them he will NEVER see them again. I also threatened to become Catholic. Since Dad comes from a very Catholic family who barely tolerates his JWness, I'd just duck and let the extended family nuke him for bad behavior. It never came to that, my mother reined him in. (We still don't let him see the kids unsupervised.)

    I want to raise them to be like Mindmelda's kids. Able to think critically for themselves.

    Reniaa, you miss the entire point. My Dad would have had an aneurysm if my Grandparents would have tried to indoctrinate us into the Catholic faith. But for a JW it's OK? They think they have the truth.... blah, blah... Well guess what?, if YOU really believed that you'd do as "mother" tells you and stay off the internet and these nasty apostate websites. I was raised a JW, I walked away. I know exactly what it is, and so do you... it's a family wrecking, child abusing, money whore of a cult. I know what I am and what I am not... do you?

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    RENIAA -

    You are absolutely WRONG on this. I can give you the names of the parents, the relatives the congregation.

    HOW DARE YOU accuse me of lying here.

    I can also give you the names congregations of JW who have done this to their non JW relatives.

    I repeat HOW DARE YOU.

    Do you think that those of us who came to this board to HEAL and RECOVER from the hurt that cult did to us

    do we want to construct a fantasy all over again like the WT taught us to do???????

    I could tell such a truth of my life.

    HOW DARE YOU. HOW DARE YOU.

    HB

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    AND Ren -

    for your information, after i was exposed to the "Truth Book" I was actually crying because the rest of the family was not giving up the christmas tree.

    Again - HOW DARE YOU.

    We dont all live in a fantasy world. Some of us actually remember facts.

    Want me to tell you about the elder that collected child porn - I can give you his name congregation too??

    I have no motive to lie on this. Honest INjun.

    HB

  • Hittman
    Hittman

    I'm sorry hamsterbait while the other experiences here have a ring of truth to them yours sounds completely made up,

    Funny how people In The Truth can't handle regular old garden variaty truth.

  • Scully
    Scully

    while the other experiences here have a ring of truth to them yours sounds completely made up

    Unlike all those Experiences™ that JWs tell from the Platform™ at Circuit Assemblies™, District Conventions™, and in the magazines, right?

  • Lucky Calamity
    Lucky Calamity

    It's not a good idea to leave your kids unsupervised with JWs.

    They do NOT respect your boundaries, no matter what (or how) you demand . . . and they do and say damaging things . . . they often have little comprehension, in my experience, of how to be child-oriented in any way . . . but that is my experience and observation.

    Perhaps others have had better experiences.

    Short and long, yes, I learned the hard way, and should have known better, but desperation and wishful thinking lulled me into allowing my JW family to spend too much time alone with my daughter.

    Fortunately, I realized the error of my ways. She is a very independent-minded young woman who did not succumb to the grandparents' emotional (and other) blackmail/bribery. Life is challenging enough as it is; who needs that extra baggage?

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    JWs are not the only cult wanting our children.

    We really need to educate our children to recognise cultish behaviour.

    Tex Watson joined the Manson Family after ONE meeting with Charlie.

    Many Moonies have been recruited from their first encounter.

    My father was recruited by the first cult that 'explained' the Bible to him. I could have just as easily ended up a Mormon apostate.

    Educate, educate, educate.

    Cheers

    Chris

  • horrible life
    horrible life

    My parents would pump my daughter for information on me. If I smoked, or go to church. They would also tell my daughter that what she was being taught in Sunday school at the Methodist Church was wrong, and why. My daughter asked not to go see them again, where she would ever have to spend more than an hour with them. She knew they were weird, at a very young age.

  • B_Deserter
    B_Deserter

    After my fiance met my JW mother, she made me promise I'd never leave our future kids alone with her.

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