What "Discipline" Did You Recieve While A Witness? (page 4)

Stealth453

Other times I was counselled for having a moustache, wearing bright ties, biting my fingernails, having a 2 door vehicle, being overweight, joining a gym to lose weight, having garlic breath, having financial problems, being materialistic once the financial problems were gone, buying a new bed (again materialism), going to school, not shaving every day, having a 5 o'clock shadow, owning a motorcycle, working overtime, not commenting enough, incorporating "extra material" into my comments, not having my wife "in subjection", and many other reasons.

Holy crap Finally free, are you me?

prettyinpink

Don't wear my skirt above my knee.

Arthur

Hey Stealth,

Did you ever get counseled for wearing your diaper up on the platform?

troubled mind

At twelve for wearing my dress to short . At fifteen for having sex with my worldly boyfriend ( his ex worldly gf narced on me ! can you believe my luck ! ) Since I was not baptized they could only reprove me and take away "priveldge's " . They made it clear if I had been baptized I would have been DF'd because I appeared un repentant , I didn't cry in front of them . Years later after suffering a severe depression I called one of those elders back and told him exactly what I thought about how they treated me as a teen . It felt great to finally stick up for myself . I told him they had no idea the pain and suffering I went through at that time , how dare they assume I was not repentant .His response was Blah, blah , blah . As an adult I was really counseled about helping the store I work for put up a scare crow for a fall festival .(heaven forbid ) Also counseled for allowing our son to have a certain spikey hair style .

IP_SEC

I was disiplined by an elder's wife once.

alt

Crumpet

IPSEC - do you know where that elder's wife is now as I feel the need for chastisement!

Welcome Bogie to the board!

fullofdoubtnow

I didn't really get any discipline for most of the time I was a jw. I got a bit of pressure when I quit pioneering on health grounds. The elders seemed to think I was slacking, although it broke my heart at the time to quit. The only discipline I was ever threatened with was not long before I left, when I was counselled for refusing to shun a da'd brother. They threatened a jc, but I saved them the trouble and da'd myself.

poppers

"Years later after suffering a severe depression I called one of those elders back and told him exactly what I thought about how they treated me as a teen . It felt great to finally stick up for myself . I told him they had no idea the pain and suffering I went through at that time , how dare they assume I was not repentant"
Good for you troubled mind.
And welcome bogie.

riverofdeceit

P.S. As a kid my family was always treated differently because my dad was never an elder. I don't care if others don't think this happens, it absolutely does happen and you are absolutely given a harder time if you don't come from an "elite" JW family/background.

I've seen it and experienced it. I was brought downstairs because the hall girls liked me though I didn't do anything to encourage it. I was brought downstairs (downstairs was the place in the hall for second school and discipline by elders) because my suits (that my mother bought for me) were too colorful and innappropriate. I was brought downstairs because I had a bad attitude about something. When I asked what they meant or if they could explain that - in all sincerity - they said that asking that question was proof of my bad attitude!!!!!?????? I got counselled because my friend (an elder's stepson) went to visit his real dad and decided not to come back!!!!???? Apparently the dick told his mother and stepdad I encouraged it, which made no sense considering that he was my only friend and you don't generally encourage your only friend to move 800 miles away.

I got a tattoo and never got counseled about that but I was counseled when I got arrested for minor (19 yrs old) in possession of alcohol. later df'd for smoking pot. Ok, maybe I deserved the last two, but I didn't really have any respect for elders or the "religion" anymore at that point.

btw- counseled or counselled? neither looks right.

Soledad

I was very quiet and kept mostly to myself as a JW teen, since our congregation had so many cliques I didn't see the point in making fake friends.....so I was counseled for being "distant and aloof," or for having a seemingly "bad attitude". Never mind that the elderettes and pioneers were total bitches to me----no----I was supposed to kiss their asses regardless.

What "Discipline" Did You Recieve While A Witness?

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