This thread is bringing my husband and I to tears!! So funny.
How do you know when your in a cult?
They tell you how to dress and what hairdo is acceptable!! LOL
What Stupid Things Were You Counseled For?
by minimus 146 Replies latest jw friends
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freydo
Counseled for wearing a sweater(with white shirt and tie) to a book study and asked to read by the overseer who worked for a beer company .
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RosePetal
LOL this thread is a hoot the prize should go to the finger for being counselled about his beard from the platform he was almost an apostate. Any none JWs reading will surely think the witnesses are crackers.
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finallysomepride
Welcome LostnFound
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designs
As a Pioneer in the late 60's I got counseled for having a moustache, kept me off Circuit Assembly parts because of it. When I asked why the Black brothers and Latin brothers could have moustaches but the Irish kid (me) couldn't I got the Look
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carla
Marking!
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designs
Mark! well you should have gotten counseled for dating Mark
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Finally-Free
A few of the things I got counseled for were:
- Wearing bright ties.
- My hairstyle.
- Having a moustache.
- Not smiling enough. I kept forgetting that good little cultists are supposed to display goofy smiles and lobotomy eyes.
- Biting my fingernails, which was apparently "demonic".
- Wearing tinted eyeglasses. We should not try to look "cool" in field circus.
- Being in debt.
- Working overtime to pay off the aforementioned debt.
- Being overweight.
- Joining a gym to lose the aforementioned weight.
- Being materialistic. (I inheirited my dad's house when he died).
- Having bad breath.
- Being rebellious by eating extra garlic before meetings in protest of the "bad breath" counsel.
- Not commenting enough.
- Commenting directly from the paragraph at the WT study.
- Reading and applying a cited scripture from the paragraph. It was an inconvenient scripture that drew attention to elder shortcomings in our congregation.
- Having a 2 door van for my work and no 4 door car for field circus.
- Going to school to retrain after numerous knee and back injuries.
- Not having my wife in subjection. She had criticised the elders and they wanted her to shut up. I didn't shut her up because she was absolutely right in her criticisms. Most of the time she was just repeating what she heard from me, so of course she was right!
- Having red eyes. (because of a sleep disorder)
There's more but I want to quit before my blood pressure goes up.
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WTWizard
I can remember getting a talk where I was supposed to work on warmth and enthusiasm. The conductor, knowing I was not happy because of Jehovah's keeping the opposite sex out of my life, gave me a W on it anyway. Note that this conductor was not known for giving out W's to people indiscriminately (there was one conductor that did that; I never had a problem with that--only when I was singled out on crap like that).
I have also been told to wear a white shirt (I had a pale yellow shirt with a tan suit, which went together just fine). They wanted me to wear my collar button done up while out in field circus, despite that it was hot and muggy. And they got on my case because my shoes were not shiny enough.
I think the prize for most stupid counsel I got, aside being told to just meet men at a$$emblies (and hence, I don't go at all) was, on September 3, they hounded me as if I was about to make it through September without any field circus. Bearing in mind that I didn't go out on weekends because of my work, and I never got a ride to the Kingdumb Hell that day because it was Labor Day (usually, field circus was in the territory back then). I only wish I would have told them that, if they are going to hound me to do field circus that early in the month, I wouldn't do any at all (which eventually ended up happening because of the "just meet men" rule).
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XPeterX
I was asked how I got so big.They asked me if use illegal substances.Well supplements are legal but contain A LOT of stuff.They don't know shit about bodybuilding.