Well, some of you know that i have a 16 year old son who lives with his JW mother. She has already mastered the art of guilt control on him. I am most anxious that he not get baptized at all or at least unless he has really understood the whole truth, not just the watchtower truth. I have taken a lot of your comments on board in how to handle this.
i will use this post to keep any that are interested on any happenings with this issue.
Had a bit of a chat today about the internet (which i know he likes to use at my place). in his use of the net today i found one site he visited was one i had visited to get a pdf of a society publication. he would have only found that link by looking thru a file in my folders called 'jw' (not sure how i feel about him knowing i am doing research etc)
It began with me asking if they still had no internet at home, how did his step dad buy stuff online without it?(Library) And it led to yeah, i know the witnesses dont really like the net much do they? led it to talking about China, and how a lot of the net is off limits to the people by government control. I asked him why he thought the chinese govt would want to stop its people accessing the whole internet... his answer was maybe they didn't want the people to read bad stuff about them?
Led to mentioning the scientologists who also control internet usage among its followers, and now why on earth would a religion want to do that? Surely if a government or religion had nothing to hide, they wouldn't try to stop or limit the use of the internet? he agreed with this too.
I know of course that there are a lot of places on the internet that one would not want a kid to go too, but at least i had him thinking about restrictions as not only protection but also as a negitive information control measure.
small seed planted. This is a smart kid and i must get him to think for himself before it is too late.
Oz