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Aussie Oz

I found out the other day that my daughter began to question the existance of god, decided that the issue of universal soveriegnty is nonsense and that praying is useless....At 10!

So glad i didnt know! Because back then i was still an apologist and would have been bothered that she was leaning away from the JW teachings. And now? Sad that the poor kid has had 4 years of confusion and inner turmoil before dear old dad wised up and started asking the right questions. Four years of feeling like there is something wrong with herself, feeling she is doomed to die.

And thru all that time her mother has been as thick as two short planks...and still has no idea who her daughter is.

Oz the delighted

JAFO

Any niece of mine would have to be smart...

just sayin'..

(that's great news, bro.. and hey, at least eventually you did wake up!)

finallysomepride

good one Aussie

wish I had done something about the BS when i was 10 & questioning the borg in my head.

Black Sheep

Cool

It's nice that she has a Dad that has worked that out now.

Chris

cantleave

Aussie Oz

Part of the conversation the other day was regarding the GB.

She wanted to know why her mother could not be as 'open minded' as me. Recently her mother had a stand up fight with her bethelite sister over her unruly younger children, she was told not to bring those kids next time they came to visit their ill mother (now deceased). I explain that pretty much the bethel people live in an isolated world, far from reality and have no time for kids, esp noisy little ones.

The problem i told daughter was that her mother was following parenting advice from the GB, a bunch of real old men who have never had children, who live in similar ignorance to the real world like her auntie.

The GB telling JWs how to raise and relate to children is the same as her auntie giving parenting advice to her sister. I expalined that the reason her mother could not be open minded was that she has had 45 years of being programed to be closed minded, that it is not realistic to expect nor hope that a life time of believing that openminded equals Satan will be changed for her.

I tell you, i put a few nails in the GBs coffin that day!

Oz

3rdgen

Ossie O, What a nice story. Chances are that she will never get baptized.You are obviously a great dad. I like how you reason instead of "preach".

Aussie Oz

Thanks 3rdgen and all the others.

Saturday was a great day for talking about the WT and the JWs. She is really open and honest about her feelings now she has found an ally in me. I am very careful about how i do this stuff.

I am fighting a battle for her right to life as she sees it.

The JWs will win over my dead body, they will get my son i think, but not the daughter.

Oz

3rdgen

Ossie. Nrver say never. Even if your son gets baptized. My daughter was baptized at 19 and was a true believer. She was living on her own at the time. . After less than 3 yrs in the Borg she could see the hypocracy. She then reasearched on her own and faded. She didn't tell me for a long time because she didn't want to hurt me. She didn't know I had stopped attending myself! So what I'm trying to say is young ones go through many changes. Never discount the influence you have with your son and possibly soon your daughter will have. I saw this with my kids.

Aussie Oz

What bothers me is that by the time he wakes up he may well be married to his liitle hottie and then the fallout will be neuclear...

Allthough i must add, lately he has been talking of not getting married till mid twenties.

one can only hope!

oz

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