Pretzels and JWs (page 2)

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Yes Loosie those are extra bad . A bunch of little crosses all together.

yknot

Wow I haven't heard that one in FOREVER...... but it is the reason we always had pretzel sticks instead.

Hmmm I think I will make some tomorrow, I love warm softy ones with coarse salt and mustard!

Checked WT CD (religious origin)...... anyone got a copy of the Dec 22, 1946 Consolation, page 22?

Reminds me too why I wasn't allowed to eat, sing or musically play 'Hot Crossed Buns'

Never ever heard in 55 years and in more than 15 congregations that jws could not eat pretzels. Never seen anything in a publication or heard it from the platform. I can imagine that there might be some jws with an overactive "conscience."

orangefatcat

Blondie it was like one of those so called things that if your a mature Christain you wouldn't eat it as it might offend some one newer or even older in the organziation. The story of the monk is true. With their arms folded as in prayer.

I heard it many years ago along with you............ can't have Nestle quick becasue it had blood in it and peanut butter because of lecithin they claimed that was blood too and you couldn't eat oscar myers weiners becasue they had blood in them too. Well none of that was true. It only takes one JW to start a rumor and then it goes like a wild fire and before you know it everyone of JW 's think it is factual and don't look into it forthemselves. Researsh goes a long way..

Just Urban Legands.

Orangefatcat

blondie

I was told by an older jw never to base my beliefs on what was "told" to me that if it wasn't in the publications that it wasn't official. Of course, if it wasn't in the bible it wasn't official would have been more compelling. That is probably why I stayed as long as I did because I dismissed such things as unofficial and did not let others force their opinion on me, OFC. But I can honestly say that in my travels and congregations I attended, that was never an issue. I must have seen pretzels at every wedding and party I went to. Not that there weren't other wild assertions made. I can still remember smurfs. Finally a speaker at a district convention had to say categorically that the story about the smurf doll walking out of a KH was not true. I guess that story was getting too embarrassing.

Blondie

OUTLAW

The Smurf Story is`nt True?????!!............ Laughing Mutley ...OUTLAW

blondie

Outlaw, I suppose it depends on who you talk to................... Nothing on smurfs in the WT publications.

Honesty

I was wondering why the dubs wouldn't accept my invitations for a get together at my home after we had a bunch of them over one Sunday afternoon for beer and football...

and pretzels.

I should have read all the Watchtower articles instead of just pulling off the front and rear cover and stuffing my parrot's cage with the filling.

Scully

Outlaw, I suppose it depends on who you talk to................... Nothing on smurfs in the WT publications.

Maybe not in the official Publications™, but from the platform at District Conventions™ and Circuit Assemblies™ - most definitely! Just like Judaism, the WTS seems to have a written tradition and an oral tradition. Sometimes they mesh and sometimes the oral tradition embellishes the written tradition with improbable urban legend-type rumours.

blondie

Of course, Scully, I am sure there is stuff from the platform....but as I mentioned most of the jws in my family and associates knew that it wasn't official until it was in print somewhere, even a secret BOE letter. My experience above was just the opposite, at a district convention the speaker spent about 15 minutes talking about rumors and not to spread them, and he said that the story about the smurf doll running off on its own power at a KH was a rumor, and had never happened. So if you are a jw out there reading this, if you can't find it in print, definitely don't believe it.

In years past, the speakers would inject their own ideas more often, but now the WTS has really clamped down on that. The only time I see it get loose is when a GB member gives a talk.

Blondie

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