Neckties, Armageddon & 'The New World'

by Jim_TX 20 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  watson

  There's something creepy about that picture, Clam!
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  easyreader1970

  The necktie thing doesn't appear to be universal. I have seen photos from assemblies or convention in foreign lands where neither the Witnesses attending nor the brothers giving the talks have ties or even jackets for that matter. Apparently this falls under staying within the acceptable dress guidlines of your location. The WT uses this to give local elders absolute authority when it comes to determining what people shoud wear. I have been in congregations where the brothers would not let you give talks if:

  1. Your jacket and pants were not part of the same suit. No blue jacket and brown pants.

  2. Your shirt was not white. Yellow shirt? No theocratic ministry school talks for you.

  3. Women with sleeveless dresses or tops? They can't kick you out, but they can make sure you don't answer any questions in the Watchtower Study on Sunday.

  4. A little sign of 5-o'clock shadow? Please shave that before you report back to carry the microphone. Can't shave too close because it irritates your skin? I'm sorry to hear that. We can let you answer questions in the book studies but that's about it.

  Now they want people to wear their suits and ties all day long during conventions, even after the day is over. So, let me get this straight. I've had on this uncomfortable suit and tie since 6:30AM (because I had to be waiting at the door at 7AM just to have a chance at a seat for my family because you try to fit 8,000 people in a facility that holds 7,000). I wore it through all of today's session and now I want to go to the mall with my family but I can't go put on shorts and a t-shirt? And if I do then I am disrespecting Jehovah? What the hell?
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  sir82

  Yeah, but somehow all the women are still stuck wearing skirts or dresses!
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  God in his loving kindness would not want his devoted men to wear ties around the devastating heat of burning

  buildings and the burning bodies scattered on the ground, because he is a loving god remember
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  kurtbethel

  Oh, that surreal WT art really disturbs me. Seeing people jubilant with all that destruction around them is unsettling.

  Apparently the necktie will not make it into the New World Order. However, Satan will come into possession of the neckties and dispense them to his rebels to wear as headbands when they attempt to whack Jehovah's people with sticks in the Gog and Magog war.

  I am not making this up! See the Revelation ClimaXXX * book, page 291.

  * So called, because it is spiritual pornography.
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  ninja

  and to think clamster....the cross on top of the church was a rocket all along
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  Clam

  Well spotted Ninj. Christendom must have cross/tomahawk transformers.
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  booby

  important issues. On a yahoo group a "sister" brings up this issue

  So my dear husband has been studying for a few months now. He is attending all the meetings and is making comments. He has expressed his desire to become an unbaptized publisher. The elder he spoke with mentioned that he would have to shave his pinch (a moustache and a beard that covers only the chin that is always well trimmed). I have tried to find information about this but have been unsuccessful. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I understand that in the past (in the pre-90’

  s) there may have been concern with a beard looking ‘bikerish’ or worldly, but beards have become more popular and more accepted as of late. So tell me, is shaving a requirement of being a publisher? Perhaps I am too attached to the beard? My husband isn’t sure he likes the idea either.

  this is part of one response

  In one of the talks that is posted (Mozel Mack's Stay at Jehovah's Table) on the site a story was told about a certain brother who was a nBethelite. He preferred to have his hair a little longer. Eventually he was asked to bring it closer to the length that other brothers customarily wore. He refused. He was asked to leave Bethel.
  
  Now he needed a job. He applied for work at Disneyland and was accepted on the condition that he cut his hair. So he did. Just think of this;he wouldn't cut his hair for Jehovah, but he did for Mickey Mouse.

  doesn't this response sound like an Urban Legend

  I am amazed that this issue resulted in so many responses whereas when there is a serious doctrinal issue raised it goes nowhere.
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  booby

  oops. that last post was supposed to be a new heading. guess I don't know how to do that properly.
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  LockedChaos

  For Men - No neckties

  For Woman.................

  Same stupid dresses

  Same pointy shoes

  Gotta be NO UNDERWEAR

  Really

  Wouldn't lie

  It's inspired