www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/115757/1.ashx . There is a thread with the resolution that, among other things, effectively banned entertainment, putting it in the same league as porn and drunkenness. But why would they ban entertainment? For sure it can't all be dirty!
Here's one possible reason why. Supposing that someone gets a Game Boy and plays Pokemon on it. There is nothing wrong with that game itself. But it can take 20 or more hours to finish the game, and then there is the trading of Pokemon from one game to another. All this takes time that the Tower feels should be spent out placing Craptower material.
Why not play it while en route to calls? Simple: Supposing you are battling to get out of the hometown. You reach the first grassy patch and the Professor is being attacked by a pokemon. Your task is to take a Pokemon out of his bag and save him. So you select one and get in a hit or two. Just then, the car screeches to a stop at the territory. You are in the middle of the battle, and cannot save the game yet. It will be perhaps one more hit before you win the battle plus another 15 seconds to save the game. That is about 30 or 40 seconds before you can save that game. And that is time you should be out placing Craptower material.
And what are you going to be thinking of? For sure, not what calls you have nearby or what you are going to say to place the Craptower magazines or books. You are likely to be planning on catching that Taillow or Zigzagoon. You are going to be thinking ahead in your game. Battle strategy, essential to moving forward in this game, requires thinking ahead. And you will not be effective in planning on your next call, which the Tower places as more important than some lousy game.
What about playing the game while at home? When? What are they going to say if you choose to go in at noon on Saturday? There had better be a damn good reason, and playing a video game or puzzle is not going to cut it. You might play your game for a couple of hours, but they are thinking that every minute you are away from service, you are murdering another person that could have been contacted. So, instead of going after that first gym badge, you have to keep plugging away in the misery. All day you have to continue. By the time they see fit to call it quits, there is no time for your game anyway.
With all the changes that have taken place since 1879 in this religion, there is a definite trend toward every yoctosecond that can be utilized in service being accounted for. Any time that can be taken away from other pursuits and usurped by the misery must be done accordingly, or you are murdering people by not reaching them. Bluntly put, you cannot be playing and serving Jehovah at the same time, and serving Jehovah is supposed to come first at any given time. Hence, entertainment must fall by the wayside to make room for this insane ministry. Look for more details once the 2008 Kool-Aid edition of the Craptower becomes reality.