by LovesDubs 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Do you mean indoctrinate them as children, so they're less likely to be in a position to make an informed choice when they're old enough?
brilliant zico! LMAO!
I tell em he'll smite em if they don't eat their greens and will disable santa claus sleigh if they are naughty! Why? Because I think its important they have God in a healthy perspective at an early age.
I would stay away from the harmful myths and stories which diminish our ultimate significance to a tiny and conditional thing/deity/god. Best not to know anything than belittle our Source and Sustenance to a thing, a far away fragment of existence engraved within the corners of our mind.
Rather, I would assist them in being more silently aware and present with the actuality of reality in and around them. Help them to differentiate between what is shallow interpretive and conceptual thought about reality, and what is meeting with the wondrous and bottomless depths of genuine reality. Here, in this moment of conscious-existence, in awareness of awareness, innate wisdom is present that tribal "holy" books and belief systems only hide and steal away.
Help the child to be aware and open to the richness of the present moment -- rather than lost in the minds religious beliefs -- and there will be no need for fear of tiny conditional gods nor greed for hoped for rewards.
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The point with the dubs is that they have created a very negative image of god which many children eventually find disturbing as they grow up.
Other religions strive to create a positive image of god, but either way they are created images - concepts which depend on belief and faith for their existence.
I do not see why children have to believe anything that they cannot verify in reality or experience for themselves.
