by iloowy 47 Replies latest watchtower scandals
At http://christianwitnesses.com/
there's a phrase:
"The Gov Body quietly considered expelling those judged too obese"
Can this be confirmed. Where does the original mention of this get
leaked? I've never heard it before... but sounds ridiculous.
Anyone here have more info on this?
--ILOOWY
I personally never understood why we didn't have a SDA type of policy on health.
*** it-1 p. 964 Glutton *** (the same is said in the Aid book as well)
GLUTTON: A selfish, greedy person given to excessive indulgence, especially voracious eating. Gluttony in any form is diametrically opposed to Bible precepts and principles.
Under the Mosaic Law, parents of an incorrigible son who was a glutton and a drunkard were to bring him to the older men of the city, who would have him stoned to death. (De 21:18-21) As a warning to others, the Proverbs condemned even association with gluttons: "One having companionship with gluttons humiliates his father." "Do not come to be among heavy drinkers of wine, among those who are gluttonous eaters of flesh. For a drunkard and a glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe one with mere rags." (Pr 28:7; 23:20, 21) The Hebrew term here used for "glutton" and ‘gluttonous eater’ is zoh·lel´. The basic sense of the word is possibly "be lavish," that is, wasteful, prodigal.—Compare De 21:20, ftn.
In an effort to discredit Jesus Christ, one of the charges of slander hurled at him by his opponents was: "Look! A man gluttonous and given to drinking wine." Jesus simply refuted the false charge by saying, "Wisdom is proved righteous by its works" or "by all its children." (Mt 11:19; Lu 7:34, 35) In other words, Jesus was saying, ‘Look at my righteous works and conduct and you will know the charge is false.’
Gluttony certainly has no place in the Christian congregation, and the apostle Paul wanted to make sure it would not creep in. So, when leaving Titus in Crete to look after the young Christian organization there, he reminded Titus what one of Crete’s own prophets (thought to have been Epimenides, a Cretan poet of the sixth century B.C.E.), had said: "Cretans are always liars, injurious wild beasts, unemployed gluttons [literally, bellies]." Therefore, the overseers whom Titus would appoint, Paul said, should be men free of all such accusations, men who were not drunkards or greedy and who had good self-control.—Tit 1:5-12.
Although not listed separately as a ‘work of the flesh,’ gluttony often accompanies drunken bouts and revelries, and it is certainly included in the comprehensive expression "things like these," the practicers of which "will not inherit God’s kingdom." (Ga 5:19, 21) Moderation in eating habits, as in all other activities, is a Christian virtue.—1Ti 3:2, 11.
I guess the GB assume that with only low paying jobs JWs naturally stay slim between little food and lots of walking during FS....
Actually the "sin" would be gluttony; being overweight is not firm proof of that.
When they ring my doorbell next time I'll have my measuring tape, this quote, and a sly smile on my face.
I actually heard rumors of an overweight lady in another congregation in Oklahoma City who really truly was DFd for gluttony.
There was a lot of complaining behind the scenes - concensus was that she might have had some sort of disorder, and didn't really eat 15 chickens or such at a time.
She was nothing like those couch-ridden 700 pounders; just a middle aged overweight lady that nobody particularly liked.
I know of a couple of elders that should be DFd for gluttony.
One elder was so gluttonous that the other elders joked about him. They made jokes about getting his suits at the tent makers and that he looked like Fred Flintstone when he was eating a turkey leg. I saw him try to get up from his seat at the hall and the chair came up with him because his fat ass was stuck. I've seen buttons pop off his shirt while he was on the platform.
If I drank like he ate, I would have been DFd in a heartbeat. This fat fuck just eats and eats and eats and gets fatter and fatter and fatter and no one thinks twice about it.
I've seen thin people who can eat nonstop, yet no one bats an eye at them. With JWs it's all about appearance. They are the most superficial people I've ever known.
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We had a District Overseer named Donald Amy (as I remember it) and he would harp and harp and harp on obesity at our assemblies. He was ill-prepared to serve in Mississippi, the fattest state in America. I personally thought his rants were a waste of good time.
This fat fuck just eats and eats and eats and gets fatter and fatter and fatter and no one thinks twice about it.
he would harp and harp and harp on obesity at our assemblies. He was ill-prepared to serve in Mississippi, the fattest state in America. I personally thought his rants were a waste of good time.
