I can remember in the congregation I used to attend, there was this hounder family. First, the hounder himself was quite fat and out of shape. His health was rather poor for being too fat and too out of shape (he needed heart medication and had a heart infection that nearly killed him). His house was full of things like a table, folding chairs, fine bookcases, and Watchtower littera-trash (and not a single piece of entertainment--no TV, no video games, no computer, no stereo, no nothing).
Additionally, his wife was quite ugly. She was also fat and rather homely. I do not know about her health condition, but I do know that both children they had were fat when I was in. Whether this was inherited, part of the Pioneer Diet, or a lack of exercise is debatable, but none were in decent physical shape.
So far, nothing reprehensible. That is, until they start insisting that people should not have the things this couple lacked. For me, they destroyed my chance of getting a wife, let alone an attractive one (he had a puke-ugly one, so I should not have a decent one). They wanted people to get rid of that TV set, the stereo, collections of records and CDs, and video game systems. They also wanted people to be more spiritual, wasting time so they woudn't have more time on their hands than this family did.
That is full blown envy. Here you have a family that lacks values, so they want to destroy those values for others. They were not jealous (meaning that they did not want to obtain the goods that they saw others enjoying). Rather, they were envious (meaning that they did not want anyone to enjoy things they themselves did not have).
And what did this super-pious family gain for it? One of the children got disfellowshipped soon after becoming an adult. Hopefully, the other (who is younger) will also follow. People actually need some sort of entertainment, and if they are going to spend all their time studying the Puketower and Asleep!, they are going to leave and find entertainment elsewhere. Whether that entertainment come from work (which is rare these days), or from in the home (computers, TVs, stereo, etc.), or from without (movies, eating out, etc.), it is a necessity. Without it, life becomes unbearable and stagnant.
I would hate to have been born into that family. Time must have been a blur, with zero birthdays, zero holidays, zero vacations aside that fxxxing Grand Boasting Session, and always being out in field circus. No wonder the children are fat--no exercise, no activity outside field circus!
