There is no Santa Claus , no Easter bunny , and NO PARADISE!

by stuckinarut2 9 Replies latest jw experiences

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  stuckinarut2

  Witnessing yesterday, I had a few little ones in the group chattering away excitedly to me about the things they look "forward to in the paradise":

  "I'm going to have three horses, a big house and lots of pretty flowers etc"

  After I left, it hit me "like a ton of bricks"!......this is no different to the way that kids "in the world" believe in a Santa Claus, Easter bunny, tooth fairy etc...

  Then they wake up when old enough and realise that it was all lies...make believe....stories etc, all told to them by parents and older ones! Some are angry about that.

  Well, our "parents" (the organisation) has been telling us "kids" fibs as well!

  Makes me angry!
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  Xanthippe

  Yes exactly. When my daughter was small a colleague of my husband thought we were terrible for putting the presents under the Christmas tree before the day and letting her realise we bought them. But after being taught all those fairy tales as children we couldn't tell our child that there was a Santa Claus, we told her the truth.

  I think people do get upset when they find they've been taught any kind of lies. We need to stop messing with children's heads and tell them about reality. How can it help a kid to be told they are going to be given a big house and three horses? Unless they have rich parents this is just setting them up for a fall and not teaching them that most people on this planet have to work very hard for everthing they own.
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  snare&racket

  It's funny how they want things they could have now..... if their parents had pursued careers and made opportunities for themself.

  Don't get me wrong, some people will have a much harder time than some to succeed.

  But ANYONE can achieve enough to afford a nice house, flowers and a couple of horses. How sad that they believe the way to get it is working for free on behalf of Watchtower.

  Doing your homework and working hard in school will bring that stuff sooner...... as in ...it WILL happen if you pursue it.

  Unlike a paradise earth!

  Also, who died so that you could take their land in the paradise? To house your horses, your plants and flowers and your wooden house?

  JW's will talk of murder on the news as senseless tragedy... yet pray for the day people die and that they can take their land for their own.

  What about the family and children who died and lost that land? Because they simly didn't believe......

  How is that not a tragedy?
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  stuckinarut2

  Yes, it made me both angry and upset...

  I love the kids in our cong....but I am so sad that they live with a fairy tale view of the future, while thinking that everyone who is not a witness now is evil and worth being destroyed! (even the expression "being destroyed" just rolls of the tongue of witnesses doesnt it!?)

  I woke up to reality while in my very late 30's....when the strength and opportunities of youth are slipping away....

  Therefore, I hate to see little ones in witness families are going down the same path...

  I feel like screaming out "you have youth, strength and opportunities now ....pursue them and enjoy the gift of life!"
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  losingit

  And why can't you say that to those little jw kids? Say it! Someone should.
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  Ucantnome

  I think it is different. The kids enjoy Christmas and birthdays and get gifts. After a lifetime of being a witness you get the hope of a resurrection like everyone else who never sat in a kingdom hall.
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  stuckinarut2

  wow ucantnome! That is spot on!

  It makes no difference according to wt theory as to whether or not you will get resurrected hey? All that die get to the paradise, so why slave now?

  It seems that the living Jws are the only captives!
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  stuckinarut2

  All I did say was..."we'll, we can't just take the house and horses.... they belong to someone else...we would have to buy our own after working hard to earn money"
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  LostGeneration

  The kids of the world get candy on Easter, presents on Xmas and birthday, and cash under their pillow from the tooth fairy. Though its a 'white lie' the parents tell, I really don't see anyone complaining that it damaged them when they become adults.

  I actually remember losing my first tooth, and since I had never heard anything "bad" at the meetings about the tooth fairy I carefully placed it under my pillow as a five or six year old kid. I was sure disappointed the next morning.

  Damn this cult for ripping my childhood.
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  LisaRose

  I think children are very capable of knowing the difference between make believe that is engaged in for the purpose of a holiday and lies. I knew Santa wasn't real by the time I was four, I still enjoyed the pretence. My husband and I used to throw the Chistmas party for our cul-de-sac, he was Santa, I was Mrs. Claus. Every child over two knew it was him, but they all sat on his lap and told him what they wanted anyway, even the older children. The last Chistmas before we moved, the next door neighbor child said what he wanted for Christmas was for us not to move.

  I remember my children looking wistfully at the holiday decorations and lights, I wish I had not deprived them of that.