Remember we dress modestly when we get together!!!! (page 3)

keyser soze

Another not-so-subtle reminder of why I don't go to meetings anymore. Still trying to exercise control over you, even after you stop attending meetings.

Ohhhh I'm so glad I posted! You guys are all AMAZING! Excellent points here! I didn't even recognize the control factor in this call I was too busy feeling insulted that I didn't have the "right" judgement on how to dress.

HB- I feel like you, I trust No One.

Mrs. Jones- Unfortunately I'm on evening shift. Otherwise I'd be VERY tempted to go. I could have tonnes of fun planting little seeds here and there. Infact before I make my grand exit I plan on writing letters to a few of them.

Gopher-I never thought of them still having this control over me by not making a clean cut. Food for thought-thanks! When I shared your post with my hubby he could relate to it. He grew up with a large group of youth always elders meetings, always the elders kids that would be protected and he would be the 'fall' guy. Things would always be twisted and manipulated to protect the elders kids. He saw soooo much behind closed doors that should have been brought to the attention of a judicial committee. Yet he had the conscience that when he did anything wrong his first instinct would be to run to the elders. He's been df'd 2x. He hates the hypocrisy.

BigD-LMAO!!!!!!

FadingAway-This is the reason I left in the first place. Basing everything on appearances is so shallow, untrue to self and emotionally stunting. I want my kids to develop a sense of self and to be able to make the decisions they need for themselves rather than forcing them to hide and live a double lifestyle for the sake of "appearances". This is why I need to formally leave this religion ASAP. My hubby was bred a JW and I attribute most of his emotional baggage from the trauma he experienced growing up in the WT mindset. I can not do this to my children. It's amazing how quickly they pick up on the fallicy of it all. They see many of the other kids sneaking around or breaks in some of them confiding their TRUE feelings of being a JW. I feel sorry for so many of those kids. I seriously think they should have exit counsellors that specialize in children raised in mind control groups. I'd also like to see the school board intervene a little more, I believe that the JW lifestyle constitutes child neglect and abuse in many cases. I won't even get started with this. LOL

greendawn

God forbid that the JWs would dress in a way that can arouse sinful passions which can easily lead to a defilement of the flesh even if just in the imagination. They are jehovah's people and must always carry the burden of not bringing reproach on his name.

How's that for controlling the masses?

bigdreaux

we had a brother giving a talk about staying away from temptation. he even said, that the sears catalog can induce tempting thoughts. he actually said the pictures in these ads should be avoided by the brothers. sorry dude, if a sears underwear model gets you going, you are way to sexually repressed.

emptywords

appearances always supercedes love and fellowship in this orginazation.

B-I-N-G-O.

You get more points for appearing to be loving or righteous, than by actually being so. It's how you "project" your image as a JW that matters most.

To prove this, you're more likely to be DF'd (or publicly reproved) if your "sin" is public knowledge. But if it didn't gain notoriety among the gossiping members of the congregation, then you'll more likely get by with just a public reproof.

True. obedience to the law, but nothing from the heart, probably go home after the party and chain and whip.

tremoka

BigD- LMAO again!!!! That brother that cautioned against Sears Catalogues hmmmmm I'm wondering if he got that idea from Something About Mary! LOL

cognizant dissident

we had a brother giving a talk about staying away from temptation. he even said, that the sears catalog can induce tempting thoughts. he actually said the pictures in these ads should be avoided by the brothers. sorry dude, if a sears underwear model gets you going, you are way to sexually repressed. LOL! I know that brother! His wife and I were friends and she told me he was obsessed with an underwear model from the Sears catalogue! She was very pretty but he kept harping at her to lose weight to look more like this model. She eventually ended up with an eating disorder and divorced him for abuse. Oh, by the way, he was also a pioneer and an elder! (Hopefully there is not more than one of them!) Cog

LongHairGal

Tremoka:

Yes, we must dress "modestly" when we get together. Nothing low cut or revealing. No short summer skirts. No short shorts. Doesn't matter if it is 100 degrees. You don't want to make the dumpy elders' wives feel inferior now, do you?

If you don't heed this advice the elders wives will push their husbands to give local needs talks on "modesty". Gotta cover up those good looking sisters so there is no temptation to brothers or hard feelings to their wives.

LHG

Finally-Free

I'd call him back and tell him to kiss my immodest ass.

W

unique1

If it were me. I would get a low cut v neck Tee and write across it with fabric pen or paint "MODEST". I feel sure the looks would be priceless!!

Remember we dress modestly when we get together!!!!

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