by messenger 5 Replies latest jw friends
Well it appears new light has once again come to pass. Please review the following link and you will see children really need a good beating to help them learn respect and wives with unbeleveing husbands can now Christmas shop and make Christmas dinner-if their conscience says OK.
Enjoy!
You can see where this is going: relieved wives will be able to make a step or two towards increased family harmony based on their conscience, only to have the rug whipped out from under them in a few years' time. Like the screaming when raped issue, and the one on vasectomies.
"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx
It deeply saddens me that these people are so unused to using their OWN brains and consciences that they need to print advice like this.
What next, a QFR about if it is ok buy a bicycle because they saw the Pope riding one once?
Well, I hate to be the wet blanket here but I didn’t see anything promoting the ‘beating’ of children. Do I believe in physically punishing children. You bet. If an adult doesn’t know the difference between correction and abuse then that person needs to be kept out of society.
The QFR is, on the other hand, a good example of the paranoia that exists among JW’s. The very fact that such an article has to be printed shows just how little is left to the individual to decide for himself. That is a very sad state of affairs.
And then the elders will shake their heads in disgust whenever some conscience-stricken JW approaches them wracked with guilt, with a tearful confession that he/she ate a piece of Birthday cake unknowingly, or needs their nose wiped. ``What's wrong with the friends? Can't they eve progress spiritually to the point where they can simply apply Bible principles to stand on their own two feet?''
Yet the system thrives exactly because it fosters and perpetuates that kind of mindless dependence on authority figures; the ones that ``grow up'' spiritually become ``independent thinkers'' as opposed to ``dependent non-thinkers.'' And as we are painfully aware, ``independence'' is a dangerous pejorative in the Spiritual Paradise.
This article about disciplining children made me feel sick.
No it doesn’t use the word beat but it does encourage corporal punishment or the “rod” as one form discipline to use on your children.
The article says something like all children have the tendency to seek pleasure and then goes on to discus discipline and how it should be used to control and get rid of these pesky natural traits that not only children have but all normal human beings!
Witness parents and their Bible studies are under a lot of peer pressure from those in the cong and from what they read in the literature that they are told is from Jehovah God.
Both my parents and my husbands went overboard because of this kind of advice.
We were not allowed to be children we were robots that were to do exactly what they said or else!
The family name or its reputation in the cong was on the line and we were to be perfect examples.
I was under this same pressure when I had my children. I am ashamed that they influenced me to be too rough on them.
This info will be used in the same way it always has. If a six-month-old baby makes noise in a meeting doing what babies do naturally you spank, swat, etc. whatever it takes to shut them up.
Stricter advice comes from the KM on a regular basis.
They tell you not to take the child to the back when it makes noise unless you make it worse in the back (spankings-and threats) than at the seat where they belong or they will make a habit out of it and you will miss the spiritual food!
Truly disgusting and sad!
Ranchette
