The things you were not allowed to do as a child..

by fulano 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  fulano

  I was not allowed to:

  1. Bring worldly kids at home

  2. Play chess (war game)

  3. To wear jeans (no kidding)

  4. To wear T-shirts

  5. To sing birth-day songs, but I could eat the candies at school.

  6. To join school-trips

  7. To join school-parties at night.

  8. Play Indian and cow-boy

  9. Date a girl untill the age of 18

  I was obligated and forced to:

  1. Go out on service two times a week-end.

  2. Do my first talk at the age of 7

  3. Get my hair cut very short

  4. Wear a tie during field-service

  5. Wear a badge at the assemblies

  6. Do temp.pioneer-service at the age of 15, yes 75 hours at that time.((Got batized at 14)

  That's probably why I will never grow up

  Edited by - fulano on 11 November 2002 4:21:47
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  Vivamus

  Don't worry, I got a "normal"childhood, and got tricked into becomming a JW at the age of 17. Now that I am out and free, and a bit older, I simply returned to being 17. I'm mentally stuck at that age. And what fun it is too

  Oh, and when I was a kid, I didn't get to wear jeans either. My mum hated them,
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  fulano

  Well your advantage is you got stuck at 17, I got stuck at 7..I'll manage
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  Vivamus

  Hehe, I just remember another one. My mum used to do my hair. Plain torture,she would brush rather vividly, pulling out half the amount of hair I had. And than.... she would brush it into the most horrible model you can imagine. Add to that, self made clothes, pink colors, and all together it's a miracle I turned out to be so normal.
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  fulano

  Haha, I can imagine that, were they "Zeeuws" gereformeerd or something??

  I had to wear tweed trousers or pants, even to go to school!!! I don't know why even still visit them, my mother is still a witness, my father stopped, just like my brother, and my sister got disfellowshipped and reinstated agian.
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  Vivamus

  Hehe, no, my mum and family isn't Zeeuws. There is no excuse for their peculiar behaviour towards kids.

  Don't hold tweed trousers against them Fulano, it could have been worse, honestly, It could have been worse. Lol.
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  greven

  Hi all,

  let's make this a dutch thread!

  Fulano, when I used to play war games on the computer like Starcraft and my parent commented on that (I already turned the sound down but there is no discuising a tank blast) I used to point to games like chess. saying hey chess is a war game too the only difference is the amount of realism but still...they left me alone after a while. I could play whatever I wanted except when we had JW visitors. (bad influence!) All the youngsters in my congregation used to play these games.

  some JW's are quite normal but others are defenitely weird even to JW standards!

  greetz ,

  Greven.
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  Undecided

  I had none of the prohibitions but all of the obligations, except I was baptized at 7 and had to get 100 hrs. in vacation pioneering.

  Ken P.
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  Vivamus

  You were baptized at SEVEN??? OMG, thats just horrible, how can they baptize kids that young? How can they baptize kids at all, I know....
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  minimus

  I know the list quite well, as I was baptized at 9 and did everything I was supposed to do.....not anymore!