Yeah! After my last Kingdom Hall meeting I got invited into the back room by a twerp with pimples who told me Jehovah wanted me to wear a neck tie to the Kingdom Hall then he read the scripture from a mass produced pulp paper book. Insulting!
Here's a lesson to charities who depend on unpaid volunteers to do their work: Don't give the volunteer workers any crap about their wardrobe selections while they are working for you for free unless you don't ever want to see them again.
"Where's your jacket brother"
by jambon1 50 Replies latest jw friends
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garybuss
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troubled mind
My three sons always wore suits and ties, and kept their hair cut short .Once they started driving they were at the hall before my husband and I .
Did any of this get a nod of approval ? ....Nope .....Still not good enough ....not enough hours in service or didn't answer enough at book study .
My youngest son took pride in how nice he looked in his suit . He was given a G in appearance on his talk counsil slip ... One month later the brothers started harassing him about having association with a worldly girl that was attending meetings. They told his friends to stop hanging out with him until they could see if he was going to follow their direction . But worse to him was they started telling him his suits were not good enough TOO Baggy , didn't fit him right . One even came up to me and said I should buy him a new suit that fit right .WTF ....I told him Well it was good enough last month ! What a group of control freaks .......We really started seeing the bigger picture watching how they treated younger ones.
To be obstinate my husband started coming to meetings w/o his suit jacket .....and yes" Where is your jacket brother" was said to him a few times . He just said " I don't feel like wearing it tonight back off ".. haha ... He did it on purpose so they wouldn't ask him to do the microphones .
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troubled mind
The shallowness of judging ones spirituality based on appearance was overwhelming to me .
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Nosferatu
After getting in hell for absence of a suit jacket, you guys shoud've imitated Jesus by wearing a big 'ol dress to the meeting.
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Marvin Shilmer
Missionary experience:
In the South Pacific Islands it was common for women to go topless, and still is in remote areas. So it was not uncommon to go to a meeting at the Kingdom Hall (usually a very modest structure, and maybe open-air) and see most if not all the sisters without tops on, including the ones giving talks on stage. To be perfectly clear, these women were naked from the waste up. But when it came to “brothers,” the Watchtower instructed congregation elders that the men should wear a tie if giving a part from the stage. Most of these men could not afford shoes and socks, let alone a tie. So it was rather amusing to see congregations where there was one communal tie and when one brother left the stage he would take off the tie and don it on the next speaker. The amusement was not the poverty. Rather it was the madness of a Watchtower policy that put style of clothing above clothing itself. I mean, the biblical model has God himself covering human nakedness, but nowhere does the biblical model don ties on the men.
Marvin Shilmer
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R.F.
I don't have any "jacket" stories. In the congregation I attended, I can't recall ever seeing any others have the elders approach them about not having a jacket...that is....those that had congo responsibilities. I think that was one of the best kept non-WT published rules here locally.
R.F.
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watson
Ahhhhh, the tropics.
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undercover
When I first started fading, the jacket was the first thing to go. I wore a nice shirt and tie, but left the jacket at home. No one said anything, but I stood out amongst all the other brothers who were sitting in their seats with their jackets on and beads of sweat on their forehead as they sweltered during the meeting.
One of the last meetings I went to, I pulled a switcheroo...I wore a crewneck shirt and jacket, no tie. That felt great and garnered me all kinds of stares and sneers.
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Sunspot
After getting in hell for absence of a suit jacket, you guys shoud've imitated Jesus by wearing a big 'ol dress to the meeting.
Nos---THAT just struck me so funny.....
One of the last meetings I went to, I pulled a switcheroo...I wore a crewneck shirt and jacket, no tie. That felt great and garnered me all kinds of stares and sneers.
Perhaps it was more difficult for them to "read your heart" to determine your spirituality while looking at your crewnecked shirt.
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bite me
Oh do I HEAR you on this one! I hade five kids in ten years and trying to keep them in "regular" clothes for school and play, was a feat in itself---never mind getting them all outfitted in dress shoes and different meeting clothes three times a week (and for field service!)Assemblies and conventions had to be planned for waaaaay in advance. Thank goodness they had "layaways" at Walmart back then, haha!
And they tell you not to spend money on "wordly" things.. last I heard Clothing was "wordly" lol
"layaways" what's that?