A Tired Child is Better than a Dead Child

by snugglebunny 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Finkelstein

  The Thursdays evening meetings was when you could see kids misbehaving a lot due to them being tired of their daily routines of going to school and such. 9:30 PM is getting to the time most kids are being bundled off to bed, particularly the under 10 toddlers. So if the meeting ended at 9:30 then by the time they got home it was 10:00.
  

  Stupid careless apathetic fear mongering cults don't care or are concerned about Kids, their health and welfare, they need to be brainwashed just as much as their parents.
  
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  Ucantnome

  we had to walk home after the thursday night meeting in the early sixties came home to a cold house no central heating
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  Heaven

  Unless things change, children are really a liability in this religion. The odds are they are going to leave it. Having children detracts from the parents being able to devote more time to Field Serve-Us and meeting attendance/indoctrination sessions.
  
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  sparrowdown

  Firstly those kids in the photo are obviously sleeping off an all night bourbon bender (the stress of having to sit through a convention.)

  Secondly, I would like to say that a rested, educated, safe from pedophiles child is better than a brain dead child of a cult!!
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  oppostate

  why do we have to keep our children up so late just so they can attend the meetings?

  Mr. Freddy Franz would need to truthfully answer: "Because sleep deprivation facilitates cult indoctrination."
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  eyeuse2badub

  Franz was a nut job as we have all discovered so everything he said is "old light" from a dying "generation" of blow hard, self righteous, sob's who ran the borg for decades.

  We had a DO back in the 80's in the Fremont, CA area named Yasko. He was a short, beefy, boneheaded sob. Very pious sucker. So in one of his talks at our circuit assemblies, he talks about disciplining children of which he had exactly NONE. But he made it very clear to the audience, "just because I've never laid an egg, that doesn't mean I don't know what to do with it". Yes he really said that! What a smug mf'er.

  just saying!

  eyeuse2badub
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  sowhatnow

  oh man, do I remember the days when my little brother was little, he was hyper active, and was on and off the chair through the whole meeting. then he would fall asleep, and my mom would be thrilled,lol she would take him down the the ladies room and beat the daylights out of him for not sitting still, as if he could! not after feeding us captain crunch for breakfast, lol, he was so wired! she was clueless about nutrition, we ate processed food all the time.I was always tired, irritable and bored to death at every meeting.

  that kids sleeping on the floor is a common sight, you I remember the convention isles, blankets pillows, books, pencils, bags of snacks, sippy cups, lol, it was like a picnic

  I remember when a couple I knew would leave the meeting halfway through because the kids had homework, and other people would criticize that.

  well gee they might miss that SAME demonstration, about how to place a watchtower and awake

  omg, how awful, lol or , omg they missed the announcements,
  

  you would think that the watchtower would have taken children into consideration when making meeting times.

  fat chance.