Dear Bethel, the new YPA book... not much good

by Aussie Oz 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  Aussie Oz

  Dear Brooklyn, i realize you wont make reply but we all know you have your spys, so...

  I Just read the chapters on

  why not just end it all?

  How can i protect myself from sexual pretators?

  Talk about LAME and USELESS advice. What twits have you GB boys got in the writing department?

  The basics of your chapter on suicide, besides going to great pains to not use the word, is if you feel like dying you need to pray more because god knows you???? ... and you probably have a mental illness... What sort of effed up psycological twaddle is that? Just what i told my kid you would say. Get real people, if you are going to give advice to troubled teens have the humanity to do it justice. In fact, you should have cut and pasted from some decent real worldly source, at least that would have been usable. You would be a bloody laughing stock if you presented that chapter at a conference on teenage suicide.

  As for the one on sexual predators... well, slap me thrice and hand me to my momma! Talk about a waste of paper! You make potential boyfriends and dates the perpertrators of the crime, what you are talking about is date rape fella's, not predators. No where do you make mention of the real sort of sexual predators in society... those with access to children, the school teachers, the priests, the ELDERS and others within your own corrupt organization. Go talk to the elders... get real, we both know what your track record is for this. Talk about trying to take the focus off yourselves and your own responsability.

  Overall, Governing Body, You of course know nothing about raising kids and i doubt anyone in the writing department has either. You cherry pick your experiences (if they are at all real in the first place) to make it seem like your offered advice actually works.

  FAIL

  oz
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  sizemik

  Best advice for the "Young People Ask ..." book is . . . . don't ask.

  You're right OZ . . . the writers of that book are so out of touch with the problems and the people they're trying to reach . . . all it can accomplish is distance them further . . . make them feel even more odd . . . make them feel even more worthless.

  The dangers of dabbling in complex social and behavioral issues from a platform of ignorance . . . are equally inconsequential to them. I've seldom seen religious ignorance parading itself as arrogantly and dangerously as in this book. I would give it a wide berth if possible. I burn them on sight.
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  TotallyADD

  Aussie Oz it sounds like the lawyers had their hand in this one. How could they in anyway bring out to watch out for any inappropriate action by a elder or MS in the congregation without bringing on what they think is undo attention to them. I remember when I was a teenager they did not even have the YPA book if they had anything to say about children it always made me feel they just don't care. When I had young children the TPA book was out. When I read it as a father I saw how out of touch they were then. I always loved the elders who would give talks about children at the KH were never parents. Boy there was nothing they didn't know about kids. And the beat goes on in the JW cult. Totally ADD
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  clarity

  Another day dawns here in Canada, ...sipping my coffee and remembering so many kids in 'da truth' , who were so troubled and lonely, reaching out for answers.

  And what did we give them ..... a book.

  Did we, as a congregation, warmly gather around them, support them? LOVE them? Did we as GOD'S people open our homes and lives to them?

  Or did we judge them, withdraw from them, gossip about them? Was their name called out in the congregations to shun them? Did we treat every normal idiosyncrasy of youth as disgusting and vile?

  As an organization, we let them down. As parents we were badly instructed and we let them down (for a large part).

  It was easier to give them a book. Hoping to fix their life and death problems.

  These kids found little succor in their desperate prayers, little comfort from their elders.

  We gave them a book that put it all on them ....."pray more" ........

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  The basics of your chapter on suicide, besides going to great pains to not use the word, is if you feel like dying you need to pray more because god knows you???? ... and you probably have a mental illness... What sort of effed up psycological twaddle is that?"

  W

  ell said OZ

  clarity
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  RagingBull

  I always wondered how some old foggies holed up in the big Watchtower building know so much about LIFE here on the Outside. Oh yeah!...THEY DON'T!!!! I'm sure heads will be nodding with approval and hands steady clapping at the District Conventions. "AREN'T WE GLAD BROTHERS, ...THAT JEHOVAH has provided so much food for us here at this years CONVENTION?????" (Everyone claps on queue as if its the best thing said all day) So predictable, so lame, and I'm soooo tired of it all.
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  Mad Sweeney

  It angers me. And yet it gives me hope that with the Borg being SO out of touch with real people that fewer will join and get dunked and more kids will leave whenever they get the chance.
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  Adiva

  Whoa Clarity:

  You've said a mouthfull. What do our children reallty need? Us, their parents to hold them, support them, listen to them. Not some lame assed book writtenand/or rehashed by a bunch of old guys that don't have children.

  Just sayin'.

  Adiva
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  clarity

  Adiva ....oh yeah, it is so evident that the writers of those books have little to no experience with children ..... or much else if the truth be told!

  Your comment about lame assed seems to apply to all their literature.

  clarity