How many out there heard that statement in their lives?
The big one for me was: "If it wasn't for the truth"...your father would have beat the tar out of you.
Funny, thats all I remember happening through the years.
r.
If it wasn't for the "Truth".......
by restrangled 16 Replies latest jw friends
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OUTLAW
My Dad beat the crap out of me anyway`s..LOL!!...OUTLAW
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restrangled
Outlaw, I don't find that funny.... Its just sad.
r.
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avidbiblereader
sad I heard it and I confess I even said it, like so many witnesses I must have looked like one of those dolls with a string coming out of my chest that you would pull and I would repeat stupid things.
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Stealth453
Hell, my old man beat the crap out of me because of the "truf". Said it was his duty to keep me on the straight and narrow, and if that meant a straightened out coathanger on my back, by doG he was going to beat me into the new system.
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restrangled
I was expecting any kind of response, but so far its just been the beating the hell out of kids. Did we all get the same line of BS for the same thing?
Is that what "If it wasn't for the Truth" means?
If we didn't have the "Truth" we wouldn't have had are hind ends beat?
Good god, I did not expect this.
r.
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MeneMene
Me too . . . If it wasn't for the "Truth" . . . I would not have been pinched and/or taken out and whipped for not sitting still during the meetings. I even had a CO pop me when I was 2 or 3 for running around in the KH after a meeting. Guess he thought my parents weren't fast enough on the punishment. (I don't remember the CO one - I was too young - but heard the story many times growing up.) ... I remember one night mom was out front beating me and a sister walked by and asked if she could help. : ) - - - I never knew whether she was trying to save me or wanted to help beat me!!!
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nelly136
wooden spoons hairbrushes etc, and jw kids set such a great example on behaviour....no one ever asked how or why they were so well behaved.
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mrsjones5
Yeah, Mother broke a hairbrush beating me when I was five. Forgot a lot of things about being 5 but still remember that. Mother doesn't.
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Tyrone van leyen
My dad was a pacifist, his game was mental. He didn't lift a finger he is 6ft 3in. and has hands that can cover the entire face of an adult. All he had to do was give a look of displeasure and that kept us in line. I couldn't imagine getting hit with a club like that. You couldn't break a twig in the forest and get away with it. Everything was santioned to the point of ridiculousosity and there wasn't a thing you could do about it. The watchtower just made it worse. We already knew the answer to everything was no, and stopped asking for our rights when we were about 4. If it wasn't for the truth it might have been easier to tell him to screw off. You always had the feeling that he knew what you were thinking too. We still marvel at how he was able to control us and were not stupid guy's.