I was a JW from late 1960's . Oh well that was the time we were not allowed to have brothers in any other color shirt but white
I don't think I want to be a JW anymore!
by Outaservice 11 Replies latest jw friends
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I have found that JW congregations across the Atlantic did seem to, and still do to some extent, apply the little petty JW rules a lot more stringently or fanatically than here in Britain. You could go from congregation to congregation here and they would all have their own interpretation of some rule. The only one that I found adhered to by all here was the "no beards" rule.
We did have one rule in my congregation for brothers. They could only wear plain ties, not patterned or loud colours, as they may distract a person from what was being spoken.
Then we had a visit from a Circuit Overseer, who wore the loudest, brightest ties you could imagine. After that brothers began wearing similar ties and no one said a word.
We had a guy who became a JW in our congregation who had a moustache, He wasn't told to shave it off so other brothers started to grow one. The reason an Elder gave was that a moustache was more "distinguished" than a beard.
Quite often I have been told by others "we weren't allowed to do this or that in my congregation". " Why?" I would ask. "Because the WT says so" would be the reply. Then I would ask were did they say that. Usually they couldn't tell me. It was quite often something their Elders had decided on or had been applied in their congregation for so long no one knew why it was and just thought it was a WT directive.