Posts by likeabird

I showed this picture to my therapist today along with the dot-to-dot of King Solomon with the baby about to be cut in two, My Book of Bible Stories and Mankind's Search for God book page 11.

She explained that the above picture and others dealing with death is a clear case of child abuse - on the same level as a child being sexually abused. These were her words, not mine.

This is how she explained it :

As a child develops, he creates the capacity to take on new ideas, new concepts and the like. Just as he or she will only start to lose their baby teeth when the big tooth is already in place to replace it (else he would be in trouble), he or she will reach an age when he or she is ready to approach the concept of death. Death is a terrible thing for a child and by introducing it to him or her when so young can be very traumatic. He or she has no capacity or fallback to deal with that trauma or the fear or terror that it creates in his or her mind. And that's when the Society comes in to impress their own teachings - create the terror to make them believe certain things while they are still at a vulnerable age.

Whether we agree with it or not, that is what is happening when we expose our children to these pictures.

It should never happen.

It IS child abuse.

I know, even now, there are pictures in the Bible Story book and the one I mentioned above in the Search book that I still hate to look at.

Now I understand why.

I was exposed to them at an age when I was not ready to take them in.

You parents still active, please think carefully about what you are really exposing your kids to.

Thank you for reading.

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In memory of...

by hartstrings in

jw
friends

i was reviewing some ex-scientology sites and on one site they have a "morgue.

" in it, they give the names of all the people who have died due to scientology.

it made me think that it would be neat if we could set up a "in memorium" board for all those who have lost their life due to jws screwed up policies - blood, organ failure, suicide, etc.

likeabird

I just had a look on their site rebel8, but they don't seem to have it anymore. It's a shame.

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In memory of...

by hartstrings in

jw
friends

i was reviewing some ex-scientology sites and on one site they have a "morgue.

" in it, they give the names of all the people who have died due to scientology.

it made me think that it would be neat if we could set up a "in memorium" board for all those who have lost their life due to jws screwed up policies - blood, organ failure, suicide, etc.

likeabird

Anyone know if anything like this was ever done?

For it to work, would have to have some anonymous way to add names like an open page Google Drive document.

If it hasn't been done, would anyone be interested in starting a memory page up which we could later turn into something bigger if there was enough interest?

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JW bumper stickers

by innerpeace in

jw
friends

so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.

i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.

'my other car is noah's ark'.

likeabird

Gas stations just love j-dubs

I'm a pioneer - heaven forbid what my carbon footprint is

Preaching - maybe not the most eco-friendly past-time after all

How to tell if a j-dub has been driving your car - take a look at the mileage!