What are we doing to our children?

by purplesofa 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  erynw

  Please Listen To The Children's Cry

  Please listen to the children's cry
  For what their tale is, is far from a lie

  Please listen to the children's voices
  for they truly weren't left with any choices

  Please believe whatever is thought to be a child's tale
  Lest they grow up with the feeling that it was they who failed

  Please listen to the children's plea
  For they call out to you and they call out to me

  Please listen to what the children do tell
  For what needs to be heard will help put the rightful one in a cell

  Please listen to the children's desperate plea
  Let them release it and eventually be free.
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  purplesofa

  It is more serious than isolated cases of abuse. The whole system is designed to totally manage how children are brought up. I have seen strong recommendation that trampolines be totally banned because a relatively few are having accidents on them. There are laws about safety seats, safety gates, safety everything. Of which some are OK, but some do more to inhibit exploration in the name of perfect safety than they do good in preventing the one or two accidents.

  Then, by the time you go to school, children have a billion doctor visits. Many are for vaccinations that are of questionable value, and the mercury is a known risk. Maryland has recently forced parents to have children vaccinated at gunpoint. There is the issue of getting children on medication for problems such as not being able to sit still while being taught totally disjointed percepts in school. And there is no legal way to teach children to integrate these percepts into concepts and then into the bigger puzzle (is phonics taught in school these days? No--they use the look-say method, which is disjointed and is valuable only for deaf people).

  This is because the leaders are so short-sighted that they are afraid that one day, a properly educated child who had the opportunity to explore (albeit with the small risk of getting hurt that comes with it) will take leadership away. They will do a much better job running this country and its companies. Why our current leaders should worry, I don't know. Because once these children reach the age where they can take the ball, the current leaders will all either be dead or at that retirement age. I think I would rather accept the tiny risk of having a few children killed or injured, or getting sick, than use force to pacify them and keep them docile and leadable in the name of safety (yes, some were killed just getting to this country). Otherwise, there is a much greater risk of having a disease or some other problem develop that will kill millions and no one will be able to do a thing about it.

  Of course, this does not excuse the Watchtower Society for hiding pedophiles within its own ranks. Abuse of authority by coercing children into accepting sex with the hounders and then putting gag orders on them is not acceptable. This is not an instance of sacrificing safety for freedom or progress. This sacrifices safety for no good reason, just to maintain control, and is not acceptable. I can only hope those responsible will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. These cases in the Watchtower Society are not accidents but are actual abuse that needs to be stopped.

  Kids are our future, or at least they deserve their own future. And they need all the grown up help they can get.

  Personally, I think one of the biggest problems we have in this country today, is that it takes 2 parents working outside the home to make it. Who is really raising the children? Who is really nurturing the children?
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  purplesofa

  eryn,

  did you write that beautiful poem?

  purps
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  jaguarbass

  It's terrible, but as far as I can tell there has always been evil and always will be evil.

  A certain percentage march to a different drum and make their own rules.
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  erynw

  Thanks purps. Yes, I did.
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  worldtraveller

  I think the question is more like-what did our grandparents do to our parents. My dad was a self confessed bully, but his dad was the devil himself. I hope one day the cycle stops. It DID stop in our home.
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  erynw

  I hope one day the cycle stops.

  This is exactly why I chose not to have children. I guaranteed that the cycle, as far as it concerns me, does indeed stop with me.
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  purplesofa

  eryn,

  I am getting together and working very slowly I may add, poems and artwork for a book I want to do......photography and such.........I had no idea you could write, Would you be interested in submitting something?

  purps
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  erynw

  Would love to. PM me the details.
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Some of the biggest and most grievous crimes that have occurred against children were caused directly from religious beliefs,

  a truly a shameful human tragedy.

  JWS are just one of those human tragedies and a good analogy of that abusive nature