by Princess Daisy Boo 13 Replies latest jw experiences
Hi Again
I may just be being lazy here and for that I apologise, but for the benefit of myself and other newbies, could you just clarify or point me in the right direction... I am very curious about the Caffeine issue and the NGO issue - I have not heard of them before?
Thanks
Princess DB
Here is the NGO stuff, I am unfamiliar with the caffiene thing myself unless you are supposed to be careful with it because it is an addicitive substance.
http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/ngo.htm
http://e-watchman.com/essays/watchtower-united-nations-ngo.html
I don't know anything about a 'caffeine issue' although it's a little surprising that they didn't vilify this back in the 70's with tobacco.
Here's a link to one of the first threads on JWD about the WTS/UN NGO thing: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/10732/1.ashx
Funny to see the date August 2001. I wonder with all the paranoia and superstition in the society if they thought this was truly the beginning of the end for them since the 9/11 attacks on NYC came just a couple of weeks later...
-Aude.
Guess I forgot my manners... Welcome to JWD!
I don't know of any caffeine issue...
The Mormons are supposed to avoid caffeine. No coffee, tea or Coke. Decaffinated coffee and caffeine-free Coke were God-sends (or would that be Joseph Smith-sends?) for them.
I do remember way back in the 70s, right about the time of the Great Disappointment of 75, there was a rumor going around in certain JW circles that caffeine would join tobacco as a substance to be avoided by JWs. It was just a rumor...nothing ever came of it.
April 2007 has a question from readers about caffeine, is it for Christians? goes on to say it is a conscious issue, blah,blah, blah.... ends with- one shouldn't judge others over it or something to that effect. hmmm, if blood is a conscious issue should the other jw's judge them and shun them for taking it? My jw doesn't have a clue about half of jw laws & regulations it seems.
Welcome!
"Caffeine issue"????
There have been a number of speculations about whether or not coffee would be banned in the Tower. This started with the banning of smoking in 1973, and many thought coffee would be next. Then, sometime in the mid 1990s, they started having articles in the Asleep! putting coffee in a positive light. You might still find some of those on the official site, unless someone took those pages off.
And, now in April, they have the KM article suggesting that caffeine is possibly addictive. So far, they have just stated that it was a conscience matter. Something tells me that it won't always be so. Usually, what happens is that local hounders and hounder-hounders will read more into it, and use coffee as a tool to judge others. Those who use coffee, tea, cola, and chocolate may be viewed as less spiritual, and be hounded to give those up. And, down the road (and especially once the Kool Aid edition of the Puketower comes out), they might upgrade it to an outright ban. To this time, I have seen nothing that says they are definitively going to ban it--but I do not trust them.
Here is the deal: If they ever do ban caffeine and they catch me with chocolate, then I am going to go out and get a 8 oz bar of the finest quality dark chocolate (organic, of course) that I can get my hands on, and then I am going to bring it right into the judicial hearing and eat it right in front of the committee. If I get disfellowshipped, that means precisely nothing since I have nothing to gain from associating with that bunch of losers anyway. And I will not be doing my body any harm: calorie for calorie, organic chocolate is actually better for you than that Big Mac or Whopper that they probably had for lunch to keep their time going in service.
I asked my brother a long time ago about the ngo issue and he said that the society had a membership to use the library...has anyone else heard this???
I asked my brother a long time ago about the ngo issue and he said that the society had a membership to use the library...has anyone else heard this???
That was the claim. Kinda like telling the cop that arrests you inside the cat-house that you were there with your pants down just to use the potty. Jeff
