Baptize 'em young, keep 'em outta Sports - My notes from the last assembly

by jgnat 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  franklin J

  yes, I relate strongly to this; identifying with JP.

  I was 13 years old when baptized; kept away from any extracurricular activity at school. This also included any sports or after school clubs. This included any interaction with anyone "wordly". In school I was an outcaste; although I had a popular social life with the congregation young people.

  I also became a young MS, and full time pioneer at 17 and an assistant book servant ( big *&%$# deal!) I was the "goody goody" who represented the ideal JW youth; the example shown at circuit assemblies.

  It was many years of lost education; social interaction; friendships ---these things can never be replaced. My wife ( who was never a JW) has good friends from her early school years.

  Sad for all these young ones who are being misled; I do understand their plight ( although they do not) and I grieve --mainly for my own loss--but also for them.

  Frank
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  Scully

  He has a Return Visit lined up with his grade four teacher.

  My grade four teacher would've smacked me with a yard stick if I started talking dub.

  My grade six teacher laughed his ass off when I told him about how JWs believe that people will live forever in paradise.

  Mind you, he went to Mexico and Hawaii for vacation every year, so he knew what a paradise was. To an 11 year old who wore dresses that her mom made with $1 worth of fabric and who had no hope of ever going anywhere other than where she was living, the concept of paradise was just that - a concept.
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  Jim_TX

  "maybe i'm missin the point, but whats your beef with jw's they are just like evry other religion. i dont see yo pickin on them

  as a matter of fact the most religios dissin websites are jw's

  id be care who i'm dissin if i were you

  especially if you admitt you are athiest and apostate, you all dont even believe there is a GOD

  shame on you all" Well, perhaps you did not read the topic correctly. It deals with sports - and how the JWs keep their young from participating in sports (or any OTHER fun activities) I know from personal experience - growing up a JW - how I was not allowed to participate in school sports - or even GO to a sport - like a school football game on Friday night. It is difficult to tell from just one post - but are you saying that other religions also do not allow these activities - for their children? If that is true - then I grew up in a neighborhood where there were a boatload of churches - and all the kids at school were heathens - and did not go to these churches. No - I am smarter than that. I know that those same kids that participated in sports were either Baptist, Methodist, Prebysterian, Catholic, etc - and their religions allowed such activities for the kids. (Not to mention - allowing them to go to college - and get a better education - after High School) Regards, Jim TX
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  TheListener

  Welcome MzSweetz, it's nice to have a new and loving member of the forum.
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  AK - Jeff

  It was many years of lost education; social interaction; friendships ---these things can never be replaced. My wife ( who was never a JW) has good friends from her early school years.

  Franklin - I am there too, my friend. I was baptized at 17, and never knew anything else. Now at 50, when discovering the 'truth about the truth', I have a hard time finding a social life at all. But that is the toll that being in a cult all my life has handed me. I feel sorry for the young lives being ruined now. When this org starts to implode [and I think it will be in the next 20 years or so], they will have empty lives and will have missed what you and I did. Almost makes me want to cry at times.

  Jeff

  Ps - why do all the Watchtower apologists state in thier first postings that we are all a bunch of athiest that do not believe in God? My belief in God has never been stronger - and now I have a personal relationship with Christ as a Mediator! Just succumbing to the standard dubdom thinking I suppose!
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  Jahna

  I heard there were simular experiences at the assembly my folks went to. Of course they mom had to rave about it. I wonder if these same nice kids would say the same thing in a court of law for custody hearings?
  
  Jahna
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  Doubtfully Yours

  JWs kids really waste their time inside the WTBTS. It's all the parents' fault.

  They're so ill equipped that when they leave the WTBTS most of them over indulge in wasteful stuff and really ruin their life for a long period of time, some forever.

  DY
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  GetBusyLiving

  I was this same type of kid. "Pioneering", had a part in a drama, did demonstrations at assemblies. As a kid you think you are just the cat's ass and are really "advancing". All thats really happening is you are screwing yourself over later in life. Those kids up in the bleachers goofing off have a much better chance of getting out of the shit better equiped socially to deal with life then the kids on stage.

  GBL
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  jeanniebeanz

  as a matter of fact the most religios dissin websites are jw's

  Have you ever really stopped long enough to do some research and figure out why? It is because these people hurt others. They wreck families and are responsible for so much suffering.

  Out of curiosity, why are you so intolerant of differing viewpoints? Why should I be careful who I 'dis'? You gonna shoot me out of religious zeal?

  Oh, and welcome to the forum!

  J
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  Cygnus

  When you get well into your thirties and look back at your teenage JW life, you realize you had a lot more in common with the misfits and punks because they were (posering or not) into anarchy. While you were too much of a pu$$y-wimp to join them, you respected them because they maintained a similar ideolgy - this world is a waste of time and ought to be destroyed. You just believed an invisible man in the sky was gonna take care of it. Now those misfits and punks are college graduates with degrees, families, great jobs, and you feel like a big fat loser.