by minimus 19 Replies latest jw friends
Imagine being five years old, sitting cuddled with your daddy on the couch, and sobbing your little heart out because Jehovah is going to KILL your dad, just because he doesn't go to the meetings like you and your mom.
Welcome to my childhood world........
((((maya))))
Imagine being five years old, sitting cuddled with your daddy on the couch, and sobbing your little heart out because Jehovah is going to KILL your dad, just because he doesn't go to the meetings like you and your mom.Welcome to my childhood world........
My ex-wife use to tell my kids the same thing, that if I did not get reinstated I was going to die and would not make it into the new system. Finally my oldest daughter, who was around 9 years old at the time, told my ex-wife, "Then if dad is going to die at Armageddon, I want to die too".
While my daughter really did not believe I was going to die, and she was just making a point to her mother, her mother then used what our daughter said ("Then if dad is going to die at Armageddon, I want to die too".) to guilt me. My ex-wife would tell me, "OMG, Corvin, you see what you are doing to your kids!? What kind of an example are you setting for them? Because of you they do not even want to serve Jehovah and live in the new system . . . "
What a wicked bee-yotch.
Corvin
I guess the same thing that ultimately was my demise...
I felt like I was not doing enough to measure up to their 'high standards'.
I finally took myself out of the org, as I felt that I was not good enough... and might be bad - or poor - association for all the others who were obviously doing better than I was.
(I was in my mid-twenties... and wasn't even a MS... lucky me.)
Regards,
Jim TX
For me, spanking the monkey was the big issue. I used to think that Armageddon would come while doing it, and that somehow people would be able to tell that I had done it, just by looking at me. I was afraid to go to the Dr. Office, as the Dr. was a brother, and somehow he would be able to tell. The WBTS can definately make one paranoid!!!
For me, spanking the monkey was the big issue. I used to think that Armageddon would come while doing it, and that somehow people would be able to tell that I had done it, just by looking at me. I was afraid to go to the Dr. Office, as the Dr. was a brother, and somehow he would be able to tell. The WBTS can definately make one paranoid!!!
DUDE! That's exactly how it was for me! So funny.
Corvin
Simply living, bacause I knew in my heart I could not live to the standards of the borg.
Elmer
spanking the monkey seems to be #1.
When my worldly catholic boyfriend pointed out how crappy the meeting songs were. I at first was deeply hurt, because "We Are Jehovah's Witnesses" was my favorite song. As he pointed out the lyrics ran something like this,
"We are Jeho-vah's Wi-tnesses. We are here to kick, your @ss. Ours is the God of true prophesy, a whu-ping is com-ing your way!"
I was so mad that he thought Ave Maria was a good song, compared to the little brown book? Ha! Nothing from babylon the great was inspired.
My ex-wife (then girlfriend) doing EVERYTHING but IT. We were 19 or so, horny and ((cough..cough)) enjoying each other. But jeez, the next day, the guilt trips were terrible. We were pioneers, I was becoming a MS, doing parts on the assemblies, etc.. We'd talk about it, chalk it up to it being ok because we were planning to get married, promise not to do that again, and sure enough, it would happen the net day. LOL. Oh well. What a waste of time worrying about stuff like that. lol
Guilt and JWs go hand in hand. "Do More" is the JW anthem.
