What Things Were YOU Counseled For?

by minimus 77 Replies latest jw friends

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  John Doe

  For the "l" of it. Nuck nuck nuck.
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  John Doe

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  snowbird

  *up*
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  snowbird

  Knucklehead!

  Sylvia
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  coffee_black

  My dad, an elder bought me a blue 2 door Chevy Nova convertible so I'd have a car to get back and forth to College with (I lived at home and commuted daily) I was an art student, and decorated the convertible top with painted flowers. The CO's face was priceless when he saw it. He objected to the painted flowers... but couldn't come up with a rule that they violated...after all, flowers were created by Jehovah...right? The flowers I painted were realistic...not pop art. He kind of fumbled around trying to come up with something.... best he could do was to say something about the 2 door thing... but my dad had bought it for me...got a really good deal on it. He never said a word to my dad about it. He had tried to make my dad step down as an elder because I was going to college...and had failed miserably at that...in fact came away with his tail between his legs...

  Coffee
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  coffee_black

  oops, double post....
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  jambon1

  At one time I was counselled for being 'too happy'. On the platform, mucking around at ministry arrangements, laughing at the back of the hall etc, etc.

  Athough I was fairly miserable having to be a JW, I adapted and tried to make the most of it until I left. When the above was mentioned to me I realised I was in the wrong place altogether.

  I really do feel that JW's (generally) are a right miserable bunch. Negative, depressing individuals. They walk around with the weight of the world on their shoulders.

  No thanks!

  Life is good, live it.
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  blondie

  As to ankle bracelets (chains), that is an individual BOE decision. It is not addressed in writing in the WTS publications. So you can have one congregation where it is no big deal and in others where it is forbidden. The WTS lets each body of elders make their own rules. I was in one congregation that allowed the brothers to have mustaches and another congregation just ten miles away in the same city forbid it. I saw this in the case of how many holes a sister could have pierced in each lobe as well as requiring nylons to be worn by the sisters at all times. One congregation forbid dark nail polish and dyed hair on sisters and the new CO's wife showed up with ebony dyed hair and dark blood red nails........

  I saw this scripture applied by one brother in regard to ankle bracelets:

  (Isaiah 3:16) And Jehovah says: "For the reason that the daughters of Zion have become haughty and they walk with their throats stretched forth and ogling with their eyes, they go walking with tripping steps, and with their feet they make a tinkling sound,

  *** w83 10/15 pp. 25-26 par. 17 Reject Worldly Desires! ***Worldly thinking often fosters independence and pride. The world’s emphasis on the material aspects of life extends to adornment, particularly significant to women who desire to have a fine appearance. In ancient Judah of Isaiah’s day, haughty women decked themselves with many ornaments. Apparently to be in fashion, such proud females wore "step chains," or chainlets, fastened to their anklets. These chains made a "tinkling sound" as a woman walked, and they restricted her stride so that she went along "with tripping steps," having what might be considered a genteel feminine gait. Of course, the Babylonian conquest of Judah in 607 B.C.E. brought an end to those ornaments and to freedom.—Isaiah 3:16-24.
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  White Dove

  Cuz Doe can't spell...HAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  donuthole

  PRETEEN/EARLY TEEN

  "Obscene Jesting"
  Playing Vanilla Ice over Kingdom Hall PA system

  LATER TEEN

  Violent Video Games (semi-marking talk)
  Falling asleep in a living room full of people and my GF laid her head on me
  Dating an unbaptized girl
  Prewriting public prayer

  ADULTHOOD

  Partaking.
  Not using the name Jehovah in prayer.
  Apostasy.