The Spanking Room (poll)
Thank you for taking the time to answer. This is a very important question for me because of personal reasons. Bill
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My old man who rode every horse in the religion stable and was a dab hand with most weapons of chastisement bought for my birthday in 1959 a 3 piece fishing rod and a cricket set and because I was...
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I want to do one of those fly on the wall documentaries about this with a hidden camera. I really, really hate this aspect of the religion.
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It would be interesting to do a 'fly on the wall' type series within churches Shane ..... my bet is that the average jdub hall would have more smacking episodes or hair tugging episodes (my mum's...
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This thread has gone on for so long I don't even remember if I responded to it but I will now (or again) to say that my mother's instinct was this: When I discovered that my husband was too heavy...
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Red- I'm so sorry. I can tell that even now, that memory causes you pain. And ina way, it should. That kind of abuse shouldn't ever be something we acclimate to, even if we live with the memory for...
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One time while at meeting i could hear loud and clear the woman spanking her child in the back room.
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BillyCoburn wrote: 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...
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God, I remember that I got dragged off to the 'spanking room' aka that changing room off from the bathroom just because when I came back from the bathroom the first time, I didn't sit down next to my...
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My mom never spanked us at the Hall...she rarely spanked us at home unless it was something really horrible...haha. We pretty much did sit and be quiet, but I remember one time when I was little, I...
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Once my mom went away for two weeks and left my dad to take care of my sister and I. I was about 7 or 8. He took us to the meeting and I complained the entire time that my eyes hurt and I didn't feel...
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Thank goodness I was already past spanking age when Dad dragged us into the cult. I used to cringe listening to the WHACK, WHACK, WHACK coming from the library, sometimes it seemed to go on forever,...
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I remember them giving a local needs about where to discipline your children. It wasnt to be done in the second hall because that was where talks were held during the split up of the theaocratic...
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After reading everyone elses experiences, Im realizing how wonderful my parents were to us! My dad was basically a big kid. He would come prepared with a bookbag full of hard candies and would send...
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I remember that injunction not to take the kids outside for a beating. The upshot is, "Don't let the neighbors know that we abuse our children."In my first congregation there was a little girl named...
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Some of the stories of child abuse on this thread make my stomach heave.I think that the WT "injunction not to take the kids outside for a beating" may have another reason besides just public...
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I want to hurl too when I read this thread. I can't believe that things like that even exist: chuches with spanking rooms - FFS ! Is that a return to child sacrifice in 300 years ?
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I wish I had you for a parent rather than the JW mother I had. I still remember with bitterness my being so sleepy after going to school all day and then 2 hours of meeting at night and falling...
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I am ashamed to say I took my kids to the spanking room. I thought I was doing what was right. I shudder to think of what I did to my children. Now that I am out I never hit my kids. I just hope they...
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I was given the wooden spoon at home. Too bad it made me laugh more when i was hit. Haha
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I feel sad for the many parents ... those still in and those now out ... who did as they were told or acted as they were led to believe was the right way to act when it came to disciplining their...
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