OTWO just made me think of something I went through...about the whole 'telling teens they'll lose everlasting life for indescretions'.....this isn't related to sex, but it just made me think of how there was one occassion when I was about 18 years old where I had gone to a lodge with a TON of other witnesses....some just youths, but also families went. As it goes with practically most "witness" gatherings, there was A LOT OF ALCOHOL. I mean...A LOT. I went with my older sister, who was well of age. So, naturally, we had wine coolers, beer, tequila....the works. Now, I did not ONCE get "drunk". Over the course of the entire weekend I had basically two wine coolers and ONE shot of tequila. All at different times. So there was no way I was even close to inebriated.
BUT....because there was A TON of underaged drinking reported and rumors got back to our families, my parents practically forced a confession out of me. So I told them I had a wine cooler....or something small...I didn't tell them all of what I had, even though it was only 3 drinks max, because I knew they would flip out.
I was a pioneer at the time, too.
Do you know....my dad sat there and was guilt tripping me and threatening me and telling me how he wasn't sure if he should go to the elders over this or not and how I could lose my pioneering privileges over it??? At one point I was feeling pretty much the lowest of the low and said to him with tears running down my cheeks "I'm sorry...I don't mean to be a bad person.." ....now.....correct me if I'm wrong....but wouldn't YOUR reaction....the CORRECT reaction to that statement be "you're not a bad person, you just made a mistake..."?? wouldn't that be the right thing to say? OF COURSE. but no....when I said "I don't mean to be a bad person"...my father said: "nobody ever does."
W.T.F.
so basically because I had a friggin wine cooler (cuz that's all they knew about lolol) I was a bad person and could lose my pioneering privileges and basically was this all around horrible kid??? SERIOUSLY???
And yet this is how they train their members to treat their children. Instead of realizing that kids will get into things, kids will experiment and explore....that it's a natural part of learning and growing into adults. Nope, instead they tell their kids they will lose everything they hold dear, right down to their very life and salvation if they do one little thing "wrong".
ugh. man...i must be in a mood tonight lol everything is pissing me off about the jw's.
