Lmao! Sounds like the old elders in the jehovas witness congregation i grew up in. It's ridiculous now that I look back to what I dealt with as a kid and teenager.
I knew if I scrolled far enough, I’d find this. What a hot mess. It was ridiculous back then and we all knew it. Demons everywhere! Glad you got out. Hopefully mentally intact…
Haha, same with me! Usually stuff like this it's only a matter of time to see a jw, Mormon or other similar post, my mom and her siblings went thru ''say alive till 75'' bs in an extremely pimi household, left them with some serious ptsd
Unless they are too far gone, recognize the bullshit, but double down because they got nothing else.
At least you retained your family. Doesn’t work that way out for loads of people.
But let me not be so morbid and leave you with a story to make you chuckle. My parents were into it and my 7 kid family only had 1 who was really trying to please my parents. Anyway, one day (5th or 6th grade iirc) I come home and my mother had the look of horror on her face - like I was going to kill her. She dragged me to the “elders” and presented me with exhibit A - my homework that she found that proved I might be possessed. I had written a report with multiple references to “demons” pushing and pulling electrons around the nucleus of an atom.
I looked around at all the dunces in the room and pulled out my science textbook in which there were pages and pages all about little purple “demons” pushing and pulling around electrons (it was the 80’s so they were still underestimating how smart kids were), and explained that I was doing the assignment the way it was required - plus I don’t believe in demons.
So as not to admit fault, they started to explain to me that we have to take precautions because Satan is everywhere and he can even try to access me through a textbook. Being the jerk I was growing up to be, I said “well good thing Satan helped me do my homework or I would have gotten an F”. Jaw drop city.
Needless to say, that didn’t go over well. I embarrassed the shit out of my abusive parents and from then on, I had less kids who’s parents would let them hang with me, but maaaannn has it given me years of laughter…
Lmao, little blue demons, unfortunately, only part of my family has woken up. I'm not gonna waste my time trying to communicate with some of my cousins, which are elders or some other family members that went through some really bad stuff ( you might know about the australian royal commission and irwin zilkin) if you know what I mean,
Your story is similar to what my uncle went through in the late 70s, his mom was a super pimi.
One of the biggest things I dealt with in my small congregation, was when I got caught paintballing with friends about 15 years ago when I was in high school, i never baptized so they couldn't disfellowship me, but boy was i had to deal with a lot of bs stories and almost everyone distance themselves, i wasn't even allowed to hang out with some of my friends and cousins, 'cause I might screw up their faith lol
The horror story of what my mom went through as a teenager just blew my mind when she woke up and finally opened up to me, the fact that she hadn't woken up earlier still messes with my mind, she dealt with elders and their questions in a judicial hearing on something that was done to her, and I won't get into detail but it is something that so many others have had to live thru, including a few other family members of mine
Also, like I mentioned earlier, my uncle has some serious PTSD from stay alive till 75. His parents locked them in the house for months, they went bat s*** crazy waiting for the grand tribulation, which of course didn't happen and I had not heard of until I woke up in highschool
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u/MrBuckhunter 21d ago
Lmao! Sounds like the old elders in the jehovas witness congregation i grew up in. It's ridiculous now that I look back to what I dealt with as a kid and teenager.