Were you made to rehearse what you would do/say at Armageddon etc?

highdose

I remember my parents went through a phase in the 80's of rehearsing what i would say in court if they were trying to get me to have a blood transfusion. I remember the key comment they wanted me to say was that it would be like being raped, and then i had to be able to descripe what rape was.... i was about 7 at the time...(!)

I also remember having to rehearse a nazi style interrigation senario, as they thought i might need this at armargeddon when the nations "will turn on us! and we will be taken away from you! and you will have to stand up for Jehovah by yourself!"

I found it really traumatising! And of course if my mother didn't think my answers were good enough or i hadn't said them in the correct tone of voice then all hell would break loose! So i had to practice and practice what to say and how to say it, till i was word and pitch perfect.

What a F**ked up childhood!

sabastious

I remember my parents went through a phase in the 80's of rehearsing what i would say in court if they were trying to get me to have a blood transfusion. I remember the key comment they wanted me to say was that it would be like being raped, and then i had to be able to descripe what rape was.... i was about 7 at the time...(!)

It's truly amazing the lows Witness parents will go to. An indoctrinated set of parents is a force like no other. I am sorry your parents put these types of things on you when you were growing up.

-Sab

aSphereisnotaCircle

No, I wasnt taught what exactly to say.

But my folks kindly reminded me from the time i was five, that so0meday we would all be tortured and we must remain faithly or die the second death.

Stepdad went the extra mile by coming up with different kinds of torture that may be used on us.

For instance, being tied down and having sand poured over you, they would demand that you renounce Jah, and if you didn't they would keep adding more sand until you smoothered.

Stepdad had a million of them ..... and felt the need to share so that we youngins would be prepared.

Yeah, its traumatizing. even now, many years later, torture is well imprinted on my brain. I cannot watch movies with much violence in them, it is just all to real.

sabastious

But my folks kindly reminded me from the time i was five, that so0meday we would all be tortured and we must remain faithly or die the second death.

So they gave you bad news in a good way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpr3eLl9E0

But in all seriousness, that's no way to raise a child, imo.

-Sab

aSphereisnotaCircle

HAHA, thats funny Sabastious, haven't seen it in ages!

highdose

asphereisnotacircle, i always wondered why i couldn't stand torchure style movies, now i've realised! Thanks

For everyone else they are fiction, for us they are somthing we were threatened with all our lives!

aSphereisnotaCircle

I would love to watch the HBO series "Dexter" it is just my kind of weird humor/psychological study type of thing.

But every episode I try to watch just goes to far and trigers one of the scenarios in my head about being tortured or my children being tortured. I relate way to closely with the victims.

I know a lot of JWs never did this to their kids. But I think there was a large percentage of the pre-1975 parents that did.

Armegeddon was imminent, men women, children and infants would be tortured and we needed to be prepared. What happened to the Malawians would happen to us too. The society warned us of that regularly.