by life is to short 39 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
HAHAHAHAHA -
They stopped the talk so a child could be taken out for a beating?
I was at one of my last few meetings when an old Sister collapsed. The paramedics had her in the aisle with an oxygen mask and worked to resuscitate her, yet the speaker plowed on with his public talk.
Obviously a dying woman is less distracting than a child who is being tortured with boredom.
HB
It's ridiculous. In childhood development we learned kids under a certain age have an attention span of 10 minutes. It's cruel and unnatural to confine them for hours in a chair.
I never did that to my kids, I got up and took them out for feedings, walks or took them home or to the car, not for beatings and was severely criticized for it, of course. I always resisted because I KNEW it was too much to expect and just WRONG...its' fucking child abuse. I wish a CPS agent would walk into a KH sometime when a child is being beaten so loudly in back behind closed doors everyone can hear it and they do NOTHING. Arrest the whole friggin lot of em!
My kids are so much more mentally healthy than the JW kids I know. Thank god I didn't raise them to be tools of the WTS.
let's just say at the halls i went to . the young kids would show up on many sundays with BLACK AND BLUES FROM THE BEATING THEY GOT THE WEEK BEFORE AT THE HALL.
while the child is doing karoake of Pavarotti. Go in the lobby and let the kid entertain the bored attendant, who often enough is me
LOL!!!
My autistic son cannot physically sit still or keep quiet as he is battling with impulses that mean that he feels the need to line up pencils and chat incessently. My daughter who is not autistic finds it almost impossible to keep quiet but managed it when she was allowed to sketch and take notes. However there is pressure that at a very early age we give children study materials of their own regardless of whether it is age appropriate and then get them to follow along so a child is presented with pages of text and told they must not draw in the margins. We make it impossible for children to succeed. On top of that we take them to assemblies and expect them to control themselves for days.
What is the problem with this religion that does not make any effort to accommodate the young? No wonder so many leave since their whole experience is of misery and discomfort. There is no desire to make the congregation a warm experience let us guilt them early so they feel forced to stay. It is madness.
There is only one word to describe what JW children are expected to do from babyhood onward - and that is INHUMAN!
No wonder two out of every three JW children gives the religion away:
- it is a miracle that they manage to hang on to even one third of those "raised in the truth."
The truth of the matter is that this lot is not family friendly. While no admirer of the LDS, either, they at least get that part right
i.e. the Mormons are a family friendly religion, and their retention rate reflects this.
Bill.
We had a couple in our old KH who could tut louder than any noise my kids made!!!
I know of a young man with Down's Syndrome. He has an incredibly difficult time sitting still and being quiet. He is also full grown physically, so he can't exactly be restrained. His parents found that when he listened to music in a headset, at the back of an assembly hall, (yeah, the full day ordeal) he at least was able to be quiet, although he moved to the music, he did stand aside. People complained about him to their elders. Yeah. LOVE. The family also had another disabled, fully-grown child. No need to be long suffereing here though!
TV shows are interesting--otherwise, they wouldn't make it. Shows for the family have a story line, and each episode is different. Which is why classics like Leave It to Beaver and Gilligan's Island still get air time--and people actually watch these. Even the more obscure shows (that is, those which end up running out of money or that viewership isn't quite as good because of poor air time) have a story line. And none of them are telling them to do ever more under threat of getting destroyed.
Additionally, children can and do fidget during the breaks. I wonder what would happen if someone were to get DVD's of these classics and segue them to each other, so they would never get a break and see if children would still sit 2 hours non-stop. Hell, the ads themselves are more interesting than the boasting sessions.
Compare: What kind of entertainment do you get at the Kingdumb Hell? Do you get to watch someone that seems to have a way with animals? Or, someone that always knows when the phone or door bell is about to ring? Or someone that always finds a way to get into trouble, whether in a modern school or in South Africa in the middle of nowhere? Or someone that is always dogging attempts to get rescued? Or someone flying and screeching around trying to pursue justice? Instead, you get told the worn-out story of how Adam sold us all into sin, and how we need to be found doing Jehovah's will when the end comes (which has been "any day now" for the past more than 135 years). I think most children would rather watch most TV shows than go to the Kingdumb Hell.
And, since when is watching TV a suit- or dress- dressup occasion like attending the Kingdumb Hell?
My wife would often find herself comparing our kids to the other kids in the hall and lament the fact that other parents there managed to get their kids to sit still for the two hours of the meetings. Personally, I never liked the idea of comparing kids like that since ones on the outside never know how those 'well behaved' kids actually got that way.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
