no - in fact we served Girl Scout Cookies recently at a witness gathering
No Girls Scout Cookies for you!
by independent_tre 31 Replies latest jw friends
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beksbks
In my addled memory, Girl/Boy Scouts were alllllllllllllll wrong, so no way would we support them. I never once tasted the delectable "Samoa" until a couple of years ago. Now I know they are from the devil.
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LearningMore
"In my addled memory, Girl/Boy Scouts were alllllllllllllll wrong, so no way would we support them. I never once tasted the delectable "Samoa" until a couple of years ago. Now I know they are from the devil."
This was definitely my experience too. It was one of the rebellious things I did went I stopped going to meetings! I bought thin mints. I, too, now know what all the fuss is about.
It is funny to me that other witnesses didn't have that prohibition. I didn't know any witnesses who ate girl scout cookies, and I surely would have judged them had I known any who did. LOL. I guess I can just chalk it up to the same reasoning that told us Smurfs were evil!
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Homerovah the Almighty
If I remember things correctly the JWS were against the boy scouts and girl scouts institutions because
there were connected to worldly governments and there was a pledge that didn't coincide with the dub beliefs.
Since that was the case we weren't allowed to buy any cookies or at least it was frowned on.
That evil Satan had those kids under his control too
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yknot
Traumatic Experience Memory!!!
I am the only girl in my Dad's side of the family who has not been a GS, since it's founding. This was a hugh argument that happened between my Dad and Mom. We were in the process of moving and my Dad made my Mom promise that I would not be 'deprived'. Of course it never happened. Dad went overseas and new Elders went all out in protest ...(on another note the area and KH we moved to had similar attitudues toward women; their was only one GStroop in 3 counties, 16 BS troops & fancy meeting lodge for the boys) ........My grandparents always sent me home with plenty of GS cookies, oh sure there was 'outrage' but that didn't stop anyone from asking me if I had any Thin Mints, Tagalongs, or Samoas when the pioneers met at our house!
The CD references include
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w568/1p.479PresidentialVisittoBurma,thePhilippinesandHongKong***Tuesday evening was the climax of the assembly. The public talk was scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Boy Scouts Hall in Kowloon.
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g732/22p.30WatchingtheWorld***Boy
ScoutsandFirearms?
Boy’sLife, a monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America, features 10-percent advertising for firearms and shells. Around Christmastime, the proportion is much greater, because, according to Associate Publisher Edward L. Kern, rifles are a ‘big seasonal selling item.’ December’s issue carried pictures of twenty-six different weapons, each glorifying trigger-pulling. Young boys are told to get their family to buy them a rifle. Fathers are also appealed to; one advertisement reads, "Remember your first 22? Make a kid happy this Christmas." There were also ads for knives that snap open with the flick of a finger, a 24-pound navy cannon replica that "really shoots" and a midget pistol that fires tiny high-compression blanks. Out of twenty-seven ad pages, eight were devoted to lethal weapons and ammunition. Scout officials claim that, since "firearms are here to stay," gun training and safety are important so boys that pick up a rifle will know "which end is which
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g771/8p.29WatchingtheWorld***For
theBoys?
In the family tradition, wrote a former Boy Scout to the Washington Post, he planned to have his eight-year-old son also join that organization. However, the bicentennial issue of the Scout magazine, Boys’Life, changed his mind. "It is full of ads for firearms and air rifles," he complained. "On page 35, it’s ‘the gun’ and ‘the son of the gun’ [large and small rifles], . . . The inside front cover is a full page ad for air rifles which says boys can learn ‘what a great friend a gun can be.’ . . . Page 52 offers the young boy an opportunity to spend $21.95 for a World War II helmet, apparently a real Nazi type, as well as ‘Uniforms, Bayonets, etc.’ . . . This entire magazine teaches boys to be exactly the sort of person we don’t need in a crowded world. We don’t need a lot of killing and swashbuckling attitudes in a world which needs builders rather than destroyers."
BOYSCOUTS
military purposes: g35 5/22 528, 531...................ANYONE GOT A HOLD OF THIS ISSUE of the GA?
Girl Scout handbook: g54 12/22 27.......................Anyone Have this Old Awake?
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wha happened?
I'm a sucker for those cookies. Once, three GS showed up at my door. They were arguing between themselves as to who's door it was. I told them I would buy three boxes from each. They quickly settled their differences and handed the boxes over.
If I see them in front of a market they can usually squeeze a few boxes outta me. -
independent_tre
So I went without for no reason, huh? I'm going to have to make up for this next year, may even throw some samoas in the mix.....
Amazing, as if the WTS doesn't have enough rules and restrictions, nothing like the 'friends' to add a few more.....
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CoonDawg
I remember the reasoning in the congregations I was in being that the boy scouts, and by association, the girl scouts were akin to the paramillitary organizations like the Hitler Youth and were merely the minor leagues for millitary recruitment. After all, they wore uniforms and emphasized things like citizenship and comminity action. Therefore, no cookies. After I remarried, my neice was a girlscout and I've been buying cookies ever since. Some years, 20 boxes or so.
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wha happened?
I want my savanna cookies
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shopaholic
In my addled memory, Girl/Boy Scouts were alllllllllllllll wrong, so no way would we support them. I never once tasted the delectable "Samoa" until a couple of years ago.
Same here. It was a big no-no. I never had a Girl Scout cookie until about a year ago.