a lot... every meeting I went to until I was 10. Book excerpt: It was sometime after my tenth birthday—which, naturally my mother did not celebrate—when I finally heard the words I’d longed to hear for six long years: “Billy,” my mother told me, “I’m so proud of you.” She was beaming at me. “Do you realize that you finally made it through a meeting without having to be spanked?” Yes, that’s right. It took six years of beatings, but I was finally able to pay sufficient attention during a Jehovah’s Witness meeting that she did not have to take me to the Spanking Room.
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Book cover poll (The Spanking Room)
by WilliamCoburn inplease vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: the spanking room: a childs eye view of the jehovahs witnesses
my goal is simple: to have a cover and title that tells the reader all of the following: this is a true story of what it was like to grow up as a jehovahs witness with
a father who says jesus is the only way to salvation a mother who says the watchtower society is the only way to salvation and a scared little boy caught in between
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Book cover poll (The Spanking Room)
by WilliamCoburn inplease vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: the spanking room: a childs eye view of the jehovahs witnesses
my goal is simple: to have a cover and title that tells the reader all of the following: this is a true story of what it was like to grow up as a jehovahs witness with
a father who says jesus is the only way to salvation a mother who says the watchtower society is the only way to salvation and a scared little boy caught in between
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The father son idea brings a tear to my eye. BUT my dad was the non-JW so it would have to be a woman in the picture.
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Book cover poll (The Spanking Room)
by WilliamCoburn inplease vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: the spanking room: a childs eye view of the jehovahs witnesses
my goal is simple: to have a cover and title that tells the reader all of the following: this is a true story of what it was like to grow up as a jehovahs witness with
a father who says jesus is the only way to salvation a mother who says the watchtower society is the only way to salvation and a scared little boy caught in between
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yknot, Thank you for taking the time to post the links correctly. Bill :)
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Book cover poll (The Spanking Room)
by WilliamCoburn inplease vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: the spanking room: a childs eye view of the jehovahs witnesses
my goal is simple: to have a cover and title that tells the reader all of the following: this is a true story of what it was like to grow up as a jehovahs witness with
a father who says jesus is the only way to salvation a mother who says the watchtower society is the only way to salvation and a scared little boy caught in between
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Please vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: The Spanking Room: A Child’s Eye View of the Jehovah’s Witnesses My goal is simple: To have a cover and title that tells the reader all of the following: This is a true story of what it was like to grow up as a Jehovah’s Witness with… A father who says “Jesus is the only way to Salvation” A mother who says “The Watchtower Society is the only way to Salvation” And a scared little boy caught in between… Cover 1 http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/kinghuge101/Cover1.jpg [IMG]http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/kinghuge101/Cover1.jpg[/IMG] Cover 2 http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/kinghuge101/Cover2.jpg [IMG]http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t312/kinghuge101/Cover2.jpg[/IMG] Please vote for the cover that you feel best fits my book: Cover 1 Cover 2 I like them both I hate both of them
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Did/does your Kingdom Hall have a Spanking Room?
by WilliamCoburn ini was hoping to create a poll but i do not see an option for that.
thank you for taking the time to answer.
this is a very important question for me because of personal reasons.
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Here are the results so far on my Spanking Room polls (posted on 8 sites) Out of 126 votes 9 (10) people said their Kingdom Hall had a “Spanking Room”. Let me start by saying that I was in no way implying that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are the only religion that may have gone overboard with discipline to the point of child abuse. It was the 1970’s. I am NOT anti spanking but I believe it must be used “almost never” so when it is needed it is effective. Example: the one time I spanked my 4 year old was the second time he ran into the road with stopping or looking. So WHY am I gathering this information: I wrote a book about growing up a one-parent Jehovah’s Witness. The title of the book is THE SPANKING ROOM: A Child’s Eye View of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The reason for the title is simple: the first thing that pops into my mind when the religion is mentioned is the Spanking Room. So, it was very important for me to find out if my Kingdom Hall was the only one to ever have a Spanking Room. While it is very possible all 9 people who voted YES were from my Hall the written posts indicated that at least 2 other Halls had “Spanking Rooms”.
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Did/does your Kingdom Hall have a Spanking Room?
by WilliamCoburn ini was hoping to create a poll but i do not see an option for that.
thank you for taking the time to answer.
this is a very important question for me because of personal reasons.
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WilliamCoburn
I will be revealing WHY I made this post middle of next week. stay tuned!
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Did/does your Kingdom Hall have a Spanking Room?
by WilliamCoburn ini was hoping to create a poll but i do not see an option for that.
thank you for taking the time to answer.
this is a very important question for me because of personal reasons.
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WilliamCoburn
My mother used good old fashioned hair pulling till it was banned because "that method of child extraction was too loud"
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Did/does your Kingdom Hall have a Spanking Room?
by WilliamCoburn ini was hoping to create a poll but i do not see an option for that.
thank you for taking the time to answer.
this is a very important question for me because of personal reasons.
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WilliamCoburn
I grew up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses during the 70’s and there was a room openly called “the Spanking Room” in our Kingdom Hall. While I was very young I still remember the meeting announcing that the renovation of our Kingdom Hall was complete and now included a Spanking Room with a sound system so mothers would not miss their meeting while beating a child! More amazing was the meeting about a year or so later: the brother on stage said we were not allowed to call the room The Spanking Room anymore because it could give non-Witnesses the impression we beat our children.
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Did/does your Kingdom Hall have a Spanking Room?
by WilliamCoburn ini was hoping to create a poll but i do not see an option for that.
thank you for taking the time to answer.
this is a very important question for me because of personal reasons.
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WilliamCoburn
I was hoping to create a poll but I do not see an option for that. Thank you for taking the time to answer. This is a very important question for me because of personal reasons. Bill
