What did you.... (page 2)

blondie

After growing up with an abusive father, I was prepared for whatever the outside world had to throw at me.

kls

After growing up with an abusive father, I was prepared for whatever the outside world had to throw at me.

Geez Blondie ,i was physicaly abused by both my parents but it had to be worse being a jw kid and abused. Cheers to you Blondie

confusedjw

After growing up with an abusive father, I was prepared for whatever the outside world had to throw at me.
Geez Blondie ,i was physicaly abused by both my parents but it had to be worse being a jw kid and abused. Cheers to you Blondie

To both of you, Blondie and KLS. It makes me almost shake with anger when I hear of anything like this. I'm sorry and I'll tell you if I had been your neighbor and known...I would have done something

confusedjw, you think people would have done something. But neither relatives or neighbors or JWs who saw did anything. I will say this, what I learned about Jesus and others abused in the Bible, and how they handled themselves, saved me.

Kickass Blondie

kls

But neither relatives or neighbors or JWs who saw did anything

Same here Blondie and two of my neighbours were cops and they knew and so did the schools.

talesin

Well, yes, I am familiar with that shyte.

Let's just say that the nightmares I have now, are not about the JW stuff as such, rather my private education in the wonderful world of child sexual abuse. &&*^ !!!! #%$ !!!! grrrr, then add that to the JW stuff? It's a true miracle that any of us are still lucid/sober/straight enough to tell about it!

It seems to me that child abuse, whether it is physical, emotional or sexual, is the 'norm' in the JW world. One of my friends, a social worker, says that in every group of 'teens at risk' she worked with, there were 2/3 JW kids out of every dozen. WTF? She thought that was a really high percentage, when you consider how few JWs there are in comparison to the rest of the population.

kls

My heart just breaks thinking how you all had to live in a demented jw world as kids . I hope for all of you that one day you all can heal.

Netty

Hadenuf, I feared the same exact thing too, we were told all that stuff. How in the end we would suffer persecution, like in the nazi concentration camps, and that our family, brothers sisters parents would be tortured before our very eyes, and we would be told to denounce Jehovah or they would be tortured and die. I was TERRIFIED of this. I was a very small child, shish!

Blondie, Talesin, I am sorry for what you went through. My heart goes out to you both.

HadEnuf

A lot of heartbreaking stories, as usual...as a result of abusive situations within the org. that were ignored or treated lightly.

I still believe the whole JW system of mind control is criminal. Those responsible for treating abuse situations with the "if you don't address it, it will just go away" attitude should all be locked up and put away forever.

Oooooohhhh...Makes me so mad Blondie & talesin and everyone else posting on this thread. I figured I wasn't alone in the "terrors" that the WT instilled in us from such an early age on up.

Cathy L.

Es

I never felt comfortable bout Armageddon even tho it was supposed to be a great day for JW it always scarred the hell out of me es

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