One of the meanest stories put forth by WatchTower psychos is telling children that their beloved pets will never come back resurrected.
Not only must the child deal with the trauma of confronting death, the grief of losing a love, and the inability to reason why this happens.... but adults offer no real words of comfort and instead cause more psychological trauma by telling the kid that they can have a pet lion instead.
Poor kid doesn't want a pet lion. He wants Fluffy back.
What kind of psych-ops crap is this?
Why hurt a child even more with stories of hopelessness?
This is deliberate hatefulness, don't you think?
Is this a tactic to manipulate children to be estranged from human emotions?
Is this an attempt to teach them not to become "too involved" in caring about animals or other people?
Is this why they grow up with the ability to turn off their love and feelings when they are told to shun someone?
What brought this to mind was reading a story about ancient civilizations that did teach resurrection of animals. Whether one believes it or not, the thought can be some comfort for a grieving child. Why do JWs deny their children comfort in grieving for a deceased pet?
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the mummified remains of more than 40 dogs buried with blankets and food ...
treatment in death indicated the belief that the animals had an afterlife. Such a status for pets has only previously been seen in ancient Egypt.’ In fact the Aztecs and other peoples from pre-Hispanic Mexico believed very much in an afterlife for dogs...
