victorian sky has a great thread on music.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/57646/1.ashx.
it got me thinking, about tv shows, anything in particular you were told not to watch, being a little kid in the 70's i do remember hearing shows from the platform that we should not watch.
Happy Days was banned in my household because they used the phrase "sit on it".
LOL!!!
Banned at our house:
Popeye the Sailor (violence!)
Smurfs (??)
Casper the Friendly Ghost (spiritism)
I Dream of Jeanie (spiritism)
Fantasy Island (spiritism)
Woody Woodpecker (annoying to my mom)
Ecape to Witch Mountain (spritism)
Anything with magic or ghosts....Except Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters was ok for some reason....
i didn't go to college and of course, "higher education" was never recommended.
still, i never felt terribly deprived because of not going further in my education.. yet, i did wish that i could've had "normal" aka "worldly friends".
i wish that as witnesses, we could've been better integrated with other people.
Trick or Treat. I REALLY wanted to Trick or Treat...
I mean COME ON! How much fun does that look like?
Oh and the Prom. I really, really wanted to go to the Prom...
the essay "self-identity and growing up in the jehovah's witnesses" by marcela sherwin was an interesting commentary on how being brought up as one of jehovah's witnesses affects one as an adult after they leave the cult.
only a small sample of ten adult xjws participated in the survey.
i thought it would be interesting to read the answers all of you would give to the same questions.
I looked up the essay "Self-Identity and Growing Up in the Jehovah's Witnesses"...very interesting. Thanks for posting about it...I never would have seen it otherwise.
I wrote an 'essay' (a long post on JWD!) on the same subject once upon a time.... My thoughts were that JWs raise their children this way in order to purposely (though not consciously) create identity forclosed individuals, because identity forclosed individuals make perfect cult members...
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/10438/1/Raising-Kids-to-be-Cult-Members
the essay "self-identity and growing up in the jehovah's witnesses" by marcela sherwin was an interesting commentary on how being brought up as one of jehovah's witnesses affects one as an adult after they leave the cult.
only a small sample of ten adult xjws participated in the survey.
i thought it would be interesting to read the answers all of you would give to the same questions.
1. Were you allowed to make choices for yourself when you were a teenager? If so were your choices restricted to those approved by the WT?
My choices were restricted to those approved by the WT. I felt as though I had no choices at all. I could not choose my own friends, how I spent my time, the music that I listened to...
2. As a child did you fit in with the in-group at the Kingdom Hall?
No. there were two 'in-groups': the wild double-lifers and the holier-than-you pioneer teens, and I didn't fit in with either of them.
3. Were you part of a school team, yearbook, multi-cultural club or other extracurricular activities?
I wanted to go out for sports and other things, but was not allowed. My parents did let me be in band, though. I felt like band pretty much saved my life in high school. (wow, that's sad! lol!)
4. Have you struggled with adjusting to the social norms and values of society after departing from the WT in your adult life?
Yes.
5. Have you struggled with making friends in your adult life?
Yes, very much so.
6. Have you attended counseling after departing from the WT?
Yes, but never specifically related to the JW stuff.
7. What effect has your Witness upbringing had on you, positive, negative, or a combination?
Negative.
i thought maybe puttting it in a differentt format might help.
its on sbs 1 television @10:05 tonite wed. 25 / 05 /11.
for australian tv`s in victoria.
This is great. I watched the whole thing on youtube with the English subtitles.... Thanks for the link!
If you have not seen this, check it out.
post some of your rapture themed or last days themes vids!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhaga-2hq0.
One for Harold Camping and his followers....
post some of your rapture themed or last days themes vids!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhaga-2hq0.
seen this?.
blogger is a partner of an ex-bethelite who attends a memorial after a decade out, takes a nibble and is asked to leave.
photographic evidence provided.. partner, meanwhile (non-jw, smoker, unmarried) is warmly welcomed.. .
This is a great blog post!
Bravo!!!!! (to both the great writer who made me want to find her and thank her for writing what she did and for understanding, and to her partner the ex-JW nibbler)
july 15th wt study edition (regular dumb edition, not the dumber one).
god's rest - have you entered into it?.
subheading, when someone we love leaves jehovah.
"Our hearts go out to those parents. After all, their son had a choice, and he chose to pursue his unchristian lifestyle rather than to continue to enjoy close association with his parents and other fellow believers. The parents, on the other hand, had no say in the matter."
Read: Our hearts should NOT go out to the disfellowshipped son. NO LOVE FOR HIM.
Make sure you heart doesn't go out to him! He doesn't DESERVE LOVE.
july 15th wt study edition (regular dumb edition, not the dumber one).
god's rest - have you entered into it?.
subheading, when someone we love leaves jehovah.
Suppose, for example, that the only son of an expemplary Christian couple leaves the truth.
Exemplary Christian couple ...
Hmmm ...
Translation: Watch it! Lest you fall from your exemplary status and become just another of those fringe JW's.
They're good. Oh, they're really good.
Bastards!
Syl
Judgemental bastards! That is just what I was thinking!
What if it was the only son of a just regular Christian couple, instead of an 'exemplary' Christian couple? Would we feel a little less sympathy for them? I suppose so, otherwise why mention 'exemplary?'
Man, this really, really, really gets me so angry!
