Youth Policy Of The WT.

Englishman

I wonder why Brooklyn doesn't lighten up on it's treatment of it's young folk. It's almost inevitable that the majority of young folk are going to walk away from the JW's as they get older.

After all, who wants to be told whether they can dance or not, whether or not they can have a boyfriend / girlfriend, whether they should pursue an education or not?

Growing up always involves a degree of rebellion against the status quo. The society provide that kicking board because of it's unreasonable restrictions. So they leave in their droves!

It's amazing how incapable the GB are of learning anything about human nature. If they left the young folk alone it might well be a different story.

Englishman.

rebel8

I wonder why Brooklyn doesn't lighten up on it's treatment of it's young folk.

I don't know why they don't, but I hope they never do. I hope they continue to be more and more restrictive and crazy, so more and more people will escape.

Will Power

Good point E man, not to mention it produces unhealthy adults.

Education is still key, like reading CofC, unless you know the truth about the troof, when these walk-away kids get older and have kids of their own, or start facing their own mortality, often times they go back to their "roots" thinking that is what might be the answer.

will

franklin J

well said ,mike

I use my youth as an example. If the local Eders had left me alone when I started my college education; I might well have still been a JW ( and if that had happend I would have missed out on an entire life; not a good deal)

Dragonlady76

I think that the borgs restrictive rules, helped me to questions things and heavily influenced my descision to leave. You would think that the society would try to understand all the changes you go through in adolescence, but they choose to ignore this topic completely and remind young people that obidience is next to godliness, and if you act out or rebel you are obviously spiritualy weak and satan is influencing you.

Dragonlady76

Tigerman

". . . That's another reason I've got to see Dad, so I can tell him what's happening to her ( Mom) . . .and us. This Jehovah's Witness stuff is driving us crazy, Susan !" From the novel, In The Truth.

vitty

Ive been thinking about this a lot lately, but not just for youths. I mean if the society were kinder, less pressure to be at every meetings and field service surely ppl, would be happier in the congregations

Its the lack of love, being judged and the relentless pressure to do more thats turns ppl off

Rarely is it the doctrines, I mean, thinking about the new world wasnt the problem, it was knowing you werent good enough, that discourages ppl

What you dont realize, when your in, is how difficult it is to leave, when you still have family and ALL your friends who are still in the org, its not an easy discision to make.

Its like they want you to fail