Having been raised by a hard core JW family, we were always required to sit still for up to two hours as toddlers.
As an adult who has formally left (not something too many do, due to the harsh shunning edicts) I WILL say the only good thing about it is that we were taught to behave at an early age in public. Something that is SORELY lacking today with modern, child worshipping, coddling “parenting.”
Same for me, I willingly walked away around the age of 24-25. I gained beautiful public speaking skills as well as acceptable public decorum. As for the cult-like, so-called “truth,” I found that elsewhere.
I wanted to wait and see a little of the responses to this thread before I posted my opinion on this.
IMO, the JWs have a WHOLE LOT more that they should be critiqued about...especially by the New York Daily News (given that the Watchtower is HQ'd in Brooklyn)...
What I find interesting is that here you have a secular newspaper that doesn't likely believe in an account of a universal flood --
--let alone Noah's involvement in it --
--yet this newspaper --
-- when it wants to --
-- treats it all as a real historical event and a REAL threat of a death message to kids...
Can you say h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-i-c-a-l?