If you are trying to kill yourself, stay away from the stuff labeled "Children's" on it.
Clip from Loveline
Go ahead and listen to the little clip above to put this into context a little so I don't just sound like some crazy person trying to bash religious people.
Anyway, what the hell is wrong with some people when it comes to religion? This idea that they can force everything they believe onto their kids? Does anyone really think this could be healthy? I mean is there anything else that we full heartedly force onto our children? Sure there are many things you should teach or guide them with and show disapproval of other things, but force? This is ridiculous; why is this not classified as child abuse? What this clip really made me think of was the god damn Jehovah Witnesses. I know this is going to make me sound like a huge jackass, but work with me here. I have talked to a few Jehovah freaks (well, former freaks) and all I hear is how much that damn religion made their childhood hell. From my understanding the real devout ones teach their children that if your not with Jehovah you're (using the words of someone who used to be a Jehovah Witness) "evil, 'the enemy' ". She continued to say that the church (cult) encouraged friendship and real interaction with only other believers. Don't even get me started in the whole no birthdays, no holidays, no celebrations, etc. Lets alienate the kids just as much as we can, single them out, tell them they can't talk to the other kids, they can't have a birthday like everyone else, nothing, maybe just lock them in a closet or something.
The best part? This girl continued on to explain how there are a number of ways to be banned from the church and kicked out of the religion. Once you're kicked out, that’s it; you don't go to "paradise" (or what ever they call their version of heaven). I don't think they go as far as to define a hell, rather, just leave it as "nothingness", but I'm not completely sure on that. Well, this girls parents finally wanted to get a divorce and pow!, kicked out of the religion. She was offered a choice, leave the religion or stay with it, but remember, if she says with it she will go to paradise but her parents would not. Again, this was how she explained it. Believing so hard that she picked to leave the religion because as she put it, no where would be paradise if she was without her family. The far better choice, but that’s not the point, to ask someone age 14 or so to make a decision like that, something she has been forced into believing all her life and then "are you in or out?"
Now the real kicker, she's on the outside now, not "one of them", it's encouraged to not really continue socializing with her and what not. She had one friend since age 5 or so, one other girl her age that was in this same retarded ass trap. Now, after ten years they are not supposed to continue being friends, the two families which had been very close before were miles apart, the parents not liking each other any more. The other girl ended up moving away at some point. Somewhere down the line word trickled back to the now freed former Jehovah Witness that her friend was dead. She spent months trying to contact someone within the church or family to find out what happened and everyone, especially the family pretended that just nothing had happened, almost not even acknowledging that she was gone. My friend concluded that it had to have been a suicide since this is something that is never spoken of ever again if it happens. I had already come to that conclusion in my mind when I was hearing this story and I suspect it's the true one.
She's just one case, but so far 100% of the Jehovah Witnesses I have spoken to have hated their childhood and everything they had to deal with. Brainwash, alienate, banish. None of these things seem healthy, or "the right thing" to do. This wonderful country where we can't judge anyone about anything does not really seem to be the best system.
Don't get me wrong, while I'm not a huge believer, I totally feel that overall the children that do grown up in some type of religious family have a far better chance at turning out to be great people. That said; I don't want to hear anyone forcing this crap onto anyone else or making their life just generally harder to live, no matter what THEY believe.
And if you're the one living in a hell, just start counting the days until you're able to get the heck out of the house, tell your parents to screw themselves, and never speak to them again. This goes for anything too, religion, abuse, anything. Just keep the day you're free from them in your mind and jump on it when it comes. Don't feel bad either, the last thing anyone needs in this world is someone else making it a little harder to live, in any way.
Go ahead and listen to the little clip above to put this into context a little so I don't just sound like some crazy person trying to bash religious people.
Anyway, what the hell is wrong with some people when it comes to religion? This idea that they can force everything they believe onto their kids? Does anyone really think this could be healthy? I mean is there anything else that we full heartedly force onto our children? Sure there are many things you should teach or guide them with and show disapproval of other things, but force? This is ridiculous; why is this not classified as child abuse? What this clip really made me think of was the god damn Jehovah Witnesses. I know this is going to make me sound like a huge jackass, but work with me here. I have talked to a few Jehovah freaks (well, former freaks) and all I hear is how much that damn religion made their childhood hell. From my understanding the real devout ones teach their children that if your not with Jehovah you're (using the words of someone who used to be a Jehovah Witness) "evil, 'the enemy' ". She continued to say that the church (cult) encouraged friendship and real interaction with only other believers. Don't even get me started in the whole no birthdays, no holidays, no celebrations, etc. Lets alienate the kids just as much as we can, single them out, tell them they can't talk to the other kids, they can't have a birthday like everyone else, nothing, maybe just lock them in a closet or something.
The best part? This girl continued on to explain how there are a number of ways to be banned from the church and kicked out of the religion. Once you're kicked out, that’s it; you don't go to "paradise" (or what ever they call their version of heaven). I don't think they go as far as to define a hell, rather, just leave it as "nothingness", but I'm not completely sure on that. Well, this girls parents finally wanted to get a divorce and pow!, kicked out of the religion. She was offered a choice, leave the religion or stay with it, but remember, if she says with it she will go to paradise but her parents would not. Again, this was how she explained it. Believing so hard that she picked to leave the religion because as she put it, no where would be paradise if she was without her family. The far better choice, but that’s not the point, to ask someone age 14 or so to make a decision like that, something she has been forced into believing all her life and then "are you in or out?"
Now the real kicker, she's on the outside now, not "one of them", it's encouraged to not really continue socializing with her and what not. She had one friend since age 5 or so, one other girl her age that was in this same retarded ass trap. Now, after ten years they are not supposed to continue being friends, the two families which had been very close before were miles apart, the parents not liking each other any more. The other girl ended up moving away at some point. Somewhere down the line word trickled back to the now freed former Jehovah Witness that her friend was dead. She spent months trying to contact someone within the church or family to find out what happened and everyone, especially the family pretended that just nothing had happened, almost not even acknowledging that she was gone. My friend concluded that it had to have been a suicide since this is something that is never spoken of ever again if it happens. I had already come to that conclusion in my mind when I was hearing this story and I suspect it's the true one.
She's just one case, but so far 100% of the Jehovah Witnesses I have spoken to have hated their childhood and everything they had to deal with. Brainwash, alienate, banish. None of these things seem healthy, or "the right thing" to do. This wonderful country where we can't judge anyone about anything does not really seem to be the best system.
Don't get me wrong, while I'm not a huge believer, I totally feel that overall the children that do grown up in some type of religious family have a far better chance at turning out to be great people. That said; I don't want to hear anyone forcing this crap onto anyone else or making their life just generally harder to live, no matter what THEY believe.
And if you're the one living in a hell, just start counting the days until you're able to get the heck out of the house, tell your parents to screw themselves, and never speak to them again. This goes for anything too, religion, abuse, anything. Just keep the day you're free from them in your mind and jump on it when it comes. Don't feel bad either, the last thing anyone needs in this world is someone else making it a little harder to live, in any way.