What was something that you loved but were denied as a JW?

by Chemical Emotions 44 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • NewChapter
    NewChapter

    Music and literature. Also pagan artwork. I don't know why, but I love it.

    NC

  • Chemical Emotions
    Chemical Emotions

    A lot of good literature is basically forbade by the WTBTS...

  • NewChapter
    NewChapter

    I remember an article on ballet in the magazine. Even there they warned about the productions you watch as Swan Lake features a final dance that takes place in the after life. (I'm going on what they said here. I saw Swan Lake, but won't pretend to understand the entire story. Just loved the dancing)

    NC

  • AllTimeJeff
  • Chemical Emotions
    Chemical Emotions

    Swan Lake? Seriously? OMG...

    Yeah, sex is a good one.

  • VampireDCLXV
    VampireDCLXV

    Video games... and things "vampire" related (of course).

    V665V665

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    questions

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    Playing bass in hard rock bands.

    Technically, it wasn't denied as I left around the time I began playing but everything about it was verboten. I don't think the lifestyle would've meshed,...

    But my music was censured and there were purges back in the day, which didn't sit too well with me,...

  • Judge Dread
    Judge Dread

    Many women.

    JDW

  • Chemical Emotions
    Chemical Emotions

    VampireDCLXV: I am not a "twilight" kind of girl, but I always liked Dracula, and wanted to watch it, and, of course, couldn't. I guess that, along with about 300 other little things, I was not allowed to watch, read, listen to, think about, feel, do...*sigh*

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