by leftchica 46 Replies latest watchtower bible
"teaching has long been forgotten about. In fact it was forgotten about by most members only a few months after this WT was studied."
Isn't that how everything is?
What was this? 16 years ago? No one follows that since.
The funny thing is it's one of the few endearing things about worship in kingdom halls & I look back on it with fondness Affection between families or couple's during prayer. I've even seen friendship groups "huddle" during prayer & I think it demonstrates actual love & affection to outsiders, if anything. What a pity. They just can't let it lie!
Rattigan As long as brothers don't hold each others' hands.
Lol. The lads tend to place their hands on a friend's back if anything where I'm from. I think it's really nice.
I remember many years ago an older widowed lady who came to the hall and studied for a time. She wasn’t serious about progressing but just wanted friendship and attention.
Anyway, she mentioned to me how ‘bothered’ she was by seeing all the mostly older couples holding hands during the prayer. I thought to myself how stupid to be bothered over something like this! 🙄
Rattigan As long as brothers don't hold each others' hands.
Most of the young single brothers in this area now embrace their friends by putting their arms on their friends back.
That's WT rule # 365,456, wow hard to keep up with all of them.
How they don't see the bullshit is beyond me.
Been gone for 31 years... the jw's judgements and rules still haunt me.
fedup, some see the bs but are afraid they will lose contact with jw family and friends if they say anything. Or they want to find some other source of spiritual but can't find any they see as better. Some have to wait till the bs gets so high that they will have to eat it to stay. BS got too high for me, I left and found who my real family and friends were.
Holding hands..."STEPHEN, a Witness from Northern Europe, was assigned as a missionary to an African country. While strolling through town with a local brother, he was startled when the brother took hold of his hand.
The thought of walking down a busy street holding hands with another man was shocking to Stephen. In his culture such a custom has homosexual connotations. (Romans 1:27) Nevertheless, to the African brother, holding hands was purely a gesture of friendship. The rejection of the hand would signify a rejection of the friendship....What if a custom does not please us? Should it automatically be rejected? Not necessarily. The custom of males holding hands, mentioned earlier, was perfectly acceptable in that particular African community.When the missionary noticed that other men were walking around holding hands, he felt more at ease."
Well, there it is writing, but remember the tag phrase the WTS, be careful not to stumble someone which covers all cultural differences. If it bothers just one person, you have to stop it. 1998 WT October 1, p. 19
