Heaven:
She was an awesome Mom before the cult messed her up.
Very sorry to hear that ending. Sounds like you turned out well though.
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Nathan H. Knorr: Parenting Views. "Your child is a thief!"
by Open mind 17 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Open mind
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White Dove
Yes, firm consistency and understanding the nature of children is the loving way to teach them anything. Small children don't know the meaning of other ownership or thievery anymore than animals do.
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Gayle
I can't imagine! Knorr could make grown young men, most living morally (I think), working mostly 24/7 (other than sleep) for him/organization for near free, mostly unquestionally and still make many feel like crap and shutter. Building anyones esteem was unthinkable by him. His message unappologetically, firmly, "No one is indispensble around here!" His look and spirit was accusing. His way of talking at Bethel was, pretty much, 'you may been called into Bethel but I can knock you out!'
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BluesBrother
With parenting advice like this, I wonder how any are still "in"
WT. 1976 6/1 p330
"I recall a form of punishment that worked effectively on Horacio, my fifth son, when the literal rod failed to do so. He was about eight years old. He was too insistent in associating with undesirable neighborhood boys. So I had him dressed in one of his sister’s dresses. Not daring to be seen with that on, he stayed in the house and off the street.
Once, noting an impudent streak developing in my third and sixth sons, Efraín and Cicerón, I decided to send them to their grandfather’s farm. The boys were about eighteen and fifteen years old at the time. As soon as they arrived, my father-in-law knew they were being punished. It was a source of joy for him to put his grandchildren to work. An energetic worker himself, a lazy or idle person vexed him no end. The boys had to get up every morning at five o’clock and then contend with snakes and wasps and blistered hands while working in the fields in the equatorial sun. A month of that served exceptionally well to enhance their appreciation of how they should act around home.
More recently I remember asking four of the boys to get their hair cut. To my way of thinking, it was too long. Efraín, the eldest of the four, was then about twenty. A few days later they still had not gone, so I said to them: “Efraín, Rafael, Horacio, Cicerón, come on! You’re going with me.” “Very well, papa.” They did not know what I had in mind—until we arrived at the barbershop. To the barber I said: “Please do me the favor of cutting the hair of these boys as if you were going to cut mine—short, good and short!”
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Open mind
BluesBrother, that is a whopper of a Watchtower quote!
Knorr's quote in the OP is quite tame by comparison.
Thank you very much for adding to my collection of little-known Watchtower gaffs.
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Mickey mouse
Hmmm nice. Probably as well he didn't procreate himself; not a gene pool you'd want to propagate.
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I do not think Nathan Knorr would have made a good parent.
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Band on the Run
Children are not normally thiefs or impudent. My father, a Bethelite, saw children as evil. Jews viewed them as not much in Jesus' time but He said suffer the little children to come to me. I wonder about parents who see ordinary children as defiant and impudent. Kids are kids and a certain amount of acting out is necessary. An adult who is bothered is not a normal adult.
Someone posted an awful question at the wikipedia reference desk once. It reminded me of my father. People were shocked. I am curious do Catholics go down this willful, must be broken route? Not many people believe in that anymore. Thank God.