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66Do you think a JW childhood is abusive?
by Konrad West ini had a long discussion the other day with my new flatmate, who it turns out has studied with jws and thinks they're wonderful, about my view that being raised a jw is psychologically abusive.
being indoctrinated with the concept of jehovah killing people who don't do what he says and being scared of losing your friends and family if disobedient is, in my view, a very unhealthy thing for a child.
any thoughts?
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Do you think a JW childhood is abusive?
by Konrad West ini had a long discussion the other day with my new flatmate, who it turns out has studied with jws and thinks they're wonderful, about my view that being raised a jw is psychologically abusive.
being indoctrinated with the concept of jehovah killing people who don't do what he says and being scared of losing your friends and family if disobedient is, in my view, a very unhealthy thing for a child.
any thoughts?
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bw1
I would analogize that life as a jw kid is like an episode of the twilight zone. Being sent to school and taught to distance yourself from the other kids/everyone else everything is bull***t. I was constantly hasseled to not lead a 'double life' meaning not to be friends with the other kids. WTF? I only had one parent dragging me to meetings. As a young kid I was hit, as I got older that progressed to mental abuse. If I was misbehaving as a kid my mom would smile at the person in the adjascent row, and then look at me and smile and say your gonna get it when we get home. WTF is that? She was obviously more concerned with what the people in the hall thought than what was best for me. I never swallowed any of the bs being brought down on the stage and through the magazines despite being looked down upon by the entire congregation for not being fu***d up like them. I was the only kid my age at the hall that wasnt on stage regularly. Oddly enough my mother wasnt into forcing me to join up for the ministry school. Every other family forced their kids in. All the JW kids that were not allowed to associate with normal (non-JW) people are still in I believe. I wont mention details of the ones that are out except to say that one killed himself so far. Most people would not be impressed with what I had to say about the others. This story is repeated all over. You could say that having that sort of start to life has left me with a chip on my shoulder. Yes the kids are abused, that is the only way to keep them there. I remember sitting through hundreds of hours of that mind numbing s**te, listening to the wails of the kids getting thrashed in the washroom. What kind of retard drags their infant/child out til late at night and hits it when it acts its age? How any semi educated person could convert to JW is beyond me.
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Do you think a JW childhood is abusive?
by Konrad West ini had a long discussion the other day with my new flatmate, who it turns out has studied with jws and thinks they're wonderful, about my view that being raised a jw is psychologically abusive.
being indoctrinated with the concept of jehovah killing people who don't do what he says and being scared of losing your friends and family if disobedient is, in my view, a very unhealthy thing for a child.
any thoughts?
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bw1
I would analogize that life as a jw kid is like an episode of the twilight zone. Being sent to school and taught to distance yourself from the other kids/everyone else everything is bullshit. I was constantly hasseled to not lead a 'double life' meaning not to be friends with the other kids. WTF? I only had one parent dragging me to meetings. As a young kid I was hit, as I got older that progressed to mental abuse. If I was misbehaving as a kid my mom would smile at the person in the adjascent row, and then look at me and smile and say your gonna get it when we get home. WTF is that? She was obviously more concerned with what the people in the hall thought than what was best for me. I never swallowed any of the bs being brought down on the stage and through the magazines despite being looked down upon by the entire congregation for not being fucked up like them. I was the only kid my age at the hall that wasnt on stage regularly. Oddly enough my mother wasnt into forcing me to join up for the ministry school. Every other family forced their kids in. All the JW kids that were not allowed to associate with normal (non-JW) people are still in I believe. I wont mention details of the ones that are out except to say that one killed himself so far. Most people would not be impressed with what I had to say about the others. This story is repeated all over. You could say that having that sort of start to life has left me with a chip on my shoulder. Yes the kids are abused, that is the only way to keep them there. I remember sitting through hundreds of hours of that mind numbing shite, listening to the wails of the kids getting thrashed in the washroom. What kind of retard drags their infant/child out til late at night and hits it when it acts its age? How any semi educated person could convert to JW is beyond me.