Music-related jw urban myths

by rebel8 64 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  BluesBrother

  Even back in the 60's they used to criticize rock music . I can remember being on the platform as a teen, reading the WT one SUnday and the article said the silliest things about The Beatles, Stones etc...to me continuing shame I did read it , I should have refused.

  By the time that the major pogrom against Heavy Rock came in, I was married and an elder. I just ignored it. One Sunday I was supposed to conduct a WT study about "debased music" so we decided that an overdue family visit to an Aunt had to be done. I got out of conducting or attending that week.

  I never made a secret of the fact that I enjoyed Heavy Rock, but of course I did not go around campaigning against their view either

  It came in handy when I wanted to step down from eldership. The BOE and the C/O were persuading me to stay on...until I told the C/O that I had a practice of listening to such music.....end of conversation and I was immediately struck off...

  BTW We all "knew" that KISS stood for "kids in search of Satan......."
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  keyser soze

  I always grew up afraid to listen to KISS, because of what they're name allegedly meant. As I got older, I realized there wasn't nearly enough depth or substance to their music for it to be true. There music was about partying and getting laid.
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  charlie brown jr.

  Stairway again....

  It wasn't intentional ...

  There are 2 paths you can go by......

  Sounds farmilar....

  13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
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  Mr. Falcon

  I used to work with a JW guy who went nuts when we played The Smiths. He never heard of them and thought they were the greatest thing ever. ............until the day that we told him that Morrisey is gay and after that he HATED the Smiths. Hated them. Would demand that we turn it off.

  True story.
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  NewChapter

  LOL, well you know, THE GAY is quite catching! One minute he listens to the Smiths and next thing you know he's french kissing a guy. We have to be careful about these things.

  NC
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  OnTheWayOut

  OH you guys are great to take me back. I was converted to JW after developing a taste for Led Zep, AC/DC, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, and the likes. I pretty much gave it all up in the late 80's to be a dub. My favorite now is AC/DC's BACK IN BLACK because even though I dabbled in the forbidden music now and again as a dub, I freely went totally back to it after freeing my mind.

  Back in black
  I hit the sack
  I've been too long I'm glad to be back
  Yes I'm, let loose
  From the noose
  That's kept me hanging about
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  undercover

  "Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James and the Shondrels was popular when the blue covered "TRUTH BOOK" was released at the summer DC....which was the "Summer of Love" for the rest of the world. Everyone said Tommy James was studying when he wrote the hit song about the TRUTH BOOK so all the Witness Kids got to play it with impunity.

  I remember the JW urban legend about that song as well. Everyone kept repeating the rumor that James was studying the blue "Truth" book and was inspired to write the song. Too bad the Internet wasn't around then...

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Blue_Persuasion
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  undercover

  When he mentioned Led Zeppelin he said This Man is just evil this Mr. Zeppelin

  WT heavies or even local elders trying to drop names in talks condemning popular music of the day usually had it backfire on them.

  Like the elder who pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd as it's written (each y as a long i) instead of the real pronunciation, Leonard Skinnerd. Not only is it hard to say, making the speaker sound silly, it sent the message to anyone who was a fan that this man didn't know shit about what he was talking about.

  Then there was the convention speaker who was condemning rap and read a quote from Snoop Dog, who was still called Snoop Doggy Dogg at the time. The speaker called him Snoopy Dog Dog. Everyone who knew laughed. He thought we were laughing at the silliness of the name instead at his own ignorance.

  And the elder who thought Pink Floyd was a gay singer. Life imitates art, I guess - (BTW, which one's Pink?)

  And they sometimes repeated the urban myths: KISS = Knights In Satan's Service; RUSH = Raised Under Satan's House; the Hotel California rumors from the stages, thus causing parents to take it as gospel and starting witch hunts and record burnings.

  One urban myth that got repeated ad nausem was the story of a brother who tried to burn a Led Zeppelin record and it wouldn't burn but he could see faces in the flames.
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  EntirelyPossible

  People with low IQs invariably call metal "noise", because their malfunctioning brains can't operate fast enough to differentiate among the instruments or between the notes.

  I HATE metal. I hate bands that think they somehow have talent, hacks like Metallica (pre-Black albumn, of course), Sabbath, Sepultura, Pantera, Black Label Society, Disturbed, Slipknot, Motorhead, Monster Magnet, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth.....I hate them all so much I go to their shows and pound a few beers and get right up in front and yell at them for the whole show to let them know just how distasteful I find their music.

  Give me a little Barry Manilow all day, my friend.
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  ballistic

  I've not heard the Annie Lennox one, I thought it was an angel playing with her heart? LOL

  No ne has said about queen, which when another one bites the dust is played backwards plays, is "it's fun to smoke marijuana" - there's a reference to this on wiki under "another one bites the dust"