by drum and bach 28 Replies latest jw experiences
Drum & Bach ... loved and related to every single word.
what a Great intro ...
welcome to the board ... and thanks for that delightful flashback. i remember habitually scanning the crowd during prayer ... 'til my mom would pop me in the back of the head.
you're a great writer and I would love to hear more jbub stories.
taylorS
Yes, good summarization of what life is like for a kid at the meetings.
Then one can also add the countless hours reading magazines, listening to bible story tape cassettes, being grilled with jw doctrinal subjects, pressured to say prayers at meals, forced to go to meetings/service, personal study, plus all the meeting preperation. All this I had to look forward to every summer since school was out and time could fully be spent on "more important" things. Basically I ended up missing out on the joy most kids would have during summer holidays, I was never alowded to do much because it could be bad association or a snare. Most of the fun normal things kids did was considered rubish and foolishness by my family. My biggest thrill of the day was getting the mail, other then that I didnt get out much as I had to spend every waking minute in the service of the watchtower. Doing all this while other children could have normal enjoyable lives, I had to miss out on my childhood for the betterment of a greed hungry corporation. You give your life and when they no longer feel it profitable to keep you they kick you to the curb. Dont know what its like for jw children now but when I was one it was almost intolerable.
Ticker
Haha, thanks for the warm welcome guys :)
Although it was hard for me as a JW kid, as it is for most JW kids, I do also have many lighter memories of the JW life. One of the perks of being a JW is that you get to meet many wonderful and crazy characters, because those are the types of people that the congregation attracts!
I have many stories to share. I think my next one will be about buying second hand goods that come with free demons... it's amazing what the mind can make you believe!
drum ....
do get to working on that old clothes and new demonz piece ....
I'm laughing already.
And with that, a giant collective sigh could be heard falling through the noses of the brothers and sisters, like a procrastinating turd that managed to waste two hours inside a dark hole before rolling out into the bowl with a satisfying splash.
This was the most poetic thing I've ever read. WOW!
AMAZING, that sounds just like my old kingdom hall.
Once i took to buying second hand books from an antique type place, to which my mum turned deftly pale and forbid me from buying anything else as it `may have bad spirits`(quite literally), then obviously they would overun our house and wed have to move, for the same reason we were forbidden to watch casper, that most friendly of ghosts.
I never heard about demon infested clothes though. Id like to hear more.
I think that being raised a JW is better than an average non JW working class family, it instills security, a warm family atmosphere, the fundementality of the written word, good manners and genuine modesty. At the time i wished i could be one of those street rat horrors that tormented us en route to the KH, but in hindsight i was the fortunate one. I think the BS of growing up in a devout JW family was worth the sacrifice. If ur one of those that was raised a JW and left as a teen u also have a strong desire to learn, and genuinely understand the world which 95% of `normal` school kids i think never developed in a boring academic school life.
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry." - Richard Ricowitz
NOTE
Should read ..and genuinely wish to understand the world
not ..and genuinely understand the world
D&B you're a great writer! You so hit the nail on the head, brings back such memories, most of which I've tried to forget. Can't wait to hear your other stories! hg
"what would a kingdom hall intermission be without hearing a few spanks being delivered in the women?s toilets?" Haha! I love that... such sarcasm! Teehee! :)
