by frozen one 21 Replies latest jw friends
Q: How does tennis star Serena Williams justify wearing such sexy clothes when she's a Jehovah's Witness? - Ron Ryden, Riverview, Fla.
A: The winner of 10 Grand Slam singles titles dresses conservatively when attending Kingdom Hall services, but there's no religious dress code preventing her from wearing revealing clothes on or off the court.
I wonder who wrote the answer to that question because that is not how I remember the jw "dress code."
I wonder who supplyed the answer to that question.
Reniaa wrote the answer. Seriously.
I found a JW (pseudo really) on Facebook who had pictures of him with a Convention lapel card and dressed up with his wife/gf. He is a gangsta rapper and his rapper name incorporates someone who had committed serious crimes.
So I wrote him and asked him how he could justify being a JW and Rapper at he same time given the strong stance the cult has against rap music especially. The reasoning and response was priceless and typical denial. Showing him quotations from the publications got me the silent treatment.
For people like the Serena Williams and others like Prince, is that the full weight of the cult's unwritten laws are only applied gradually after they become more and more committed members. If Serena was to quit being in the spot light and chose to pioneer or pursue other so called priviledges then you would see more heavy handed efforts to control her.
Sad really, because if someone was to tell her the way it is for most women in the JW's, her mind can only at this point grasp how it is or has been in her personal experience. Never thinking that one day 2 busy body elders will read her the riot act.
Frank75
There is a military expression that applies here: Rank has its privileges.
This is true not only in the military but in all organizations and institutions and in society as a whole. The same rules do NOT apply to everyone.
In this, the JWs are no exception. Indeed, rank is what the organization is all about as there are no cash incentives in their world.
Are the Williams sisters and Prince really active JWs? Do you think they consider themselves JW? Maybe they were raised as JWs in their childhoods but that makes them no more of a JW than I am.
Prince really active JWs
Don't know if the Williams sisters are "active" but Prince is....there was an article in the paper about him recently going door to door. He is a convert of a few years, not born in.
Did a search here and didn't find this thread before I posted a new one.
In today's Parade Magazine, Walter Scott's Personality Parade column:
Q. How does tennis star Serena Williams justify wearing such sexy clothes when she's a Jehovah's Witness?-Ron Ryden, Riverview, Fla.
A. The winner of 10 Grand Slam singles titles dresses conservatively when attending Kingdom Hall services, but there's no religious dress code preventing her from wearing revealing clothes on or off the court.
I'm guessing it was Serena or her publicist that provided this response.
I'm doubting recent wts publications or their official website confirm this position.
Contact Walter Scott:
PO Box 5001, Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-5001
Sorry, I find it very hard to believe that Prince is an active JW going to all the meetings and going out in FS and attending 3 day assemblies. No way. Maybe it was a passing little phase for him. I love his music but he's really weird.
Scarred, I know a jw each in Canada and Minneapolis where Prince maintains homes. They confirm that Prince studied with Larry Graham, was baptized and attends meetings. The Williams sisters though, my contacts say are not baptized but were once unbaptized publishers. Their mother is a baptized jw though.
