"I am sorry but I hated my parents"......Run don't walk said this. C'mon. If your parents sexually abused you and beat the crap out of you everyday, I could understand that comment but I didn't get that impression here.
Did you lose respect for your parents because of the JW / Watchtower crap ?
by run dont walk 38 Replies latest jw friends
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be wise
Run don’t walk,
I don't know about you, but to me it’s extremely eerie how all jws feel and have experienced things in similar ways - to put it mildly.
I find it hard too, to have any real respect for my parents not just because of what they fanatically hold to but how this mind-set spills over to aspects of everyday life – it’s so apparent.
My ‘head in the sand’ mum is really intelligent but to see her fall for all this crap is such a fall from grace – not that I think it’s her fault but the harm that it’s done in our family is so unnecessary, how more obvious could it be to anyone that the ‘teaching’ methods of the Watchtower are responsible?
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freedom96
Funny, I never thought my parents would leave. My father was an elder, and we went to every meeting, field service day, etc.
Did I lose respect for them? No. At the time, they thought they were doing the right thing. I would be more pissed if they knew the organization was full of shit and still made us all do it. But, they were caught up in the mind control of a cult as well as everyone else.
I just made up my mind not to do that to myself or my kids.
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run dont walk
When I stopped expecting miracles from them and just accepted what they felt they could give, I got better. They really bent the "rules" a lot, and I realize that makes them the parental exceptions on this board, but they really did try to do right by me and still do.
Now I pity them, and their decisions that have created the horrible sensation of a wasted life.
well said czar, you always have great comments.
Everytime I see your name I remember the thread where you said :
"Millions now living will never Learn"
F**k that was funny, I still laugh at it.
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run dont walk
The problem is that my mother is and was the biggest hypocrite in the world, bar none. She never even pretended to live up to the standards that she expected of us.
freein89 mine too, always made sure we went to the meetings, while she stayed home, always sick and didn't feel up to going out, yeah whatever.
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garybuss
I don't respect my parents because they do not behave respectably. I think I could forgive all past events if they would make meaningful amends and quit the offending behaviors and just treat me and people important to me respectably. But that is a path they have stayed clear of. -
run dont walk
I would get mad at my unbelieving dad for not putting his foot down sooner.
unbeliever, so true, why is it the dad SEEMS (not always) lets the mother decide on religious issues and not listen to the child.
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run dont walk
I ask him the "hard-hitting" questions, and listen to his voice change.
thats funny !!!!!!!!
I often tackle him with important questions just to see what he will say... my next one will be... Would you sacrifice me again for this organization, knowing what you know now? I'll let you know.
What a great question ??? badolputtytat, do follow up ..........
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run dont walk
great comments teenyuck, you used that "hates" word alot, brings up the question (I asked on another thread), when does the Watchtower become more important than family. How sad ........
Minimus, sexual and physical abuse I never experienced, but is MENTAL abuse any better or even worse. I think all of us went through that with parents. Constantly putting us down and telling us "You will NEVER make it if you leave Jehovah's Organization!", aaaaaaaaauuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhh how many times I heard that one.
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run dont walk
I don't know about you, but to me it’s extremely eerie how all jws feel and have experienced things in similar ways - to put it mildly.
How true, eerie is right !!!!!!!
how more obvious could it be to anyone that the ‘teaching’ methods of the Watchtower are responsible?
And the Watchtower takes NO responsibility, at all. They destroy families and feel they are justified.
great comment be wise