Facial Hair & Bible Principles

by Francois 4 Replies latest jw friends

  • Francois
    Francois

    So we have been told that if you know your car has bad brakes and you take a group of people out in it and the brakes fail, causing an accident in which people die...you have (drum roll) BLOODGUILT!

    Why is that? Because the intellectual titans of the WTBTS say that even though we are no longer under the Mosiac law, the great PRINCIPLES still apply.

    They have trotted out that argument on various occasions when they want to re-enforce the old law covenant while at the same time attempting to wiggle around the entire book of Galatians: we're not under law, but we can be made to dance it its tune by playing the flute called "principle." (This from an organization that doesn't have any itself.)

    Well, I seem to remember that there's a place in the law that men are told, in no uncertain terms, that they are not to cut the corners of their beards...or maybe it's not to cut their beards nor round the corners of their heads. Whatever. If the law can be reapplied insofar as bloodguilt is concerned, then why not beards? Why is it OK to pick and choose which part of the law's great PRINCIPLES apply today and which do not?

    Apparently you can do any damn thing you want when you're the only channel of communication that God is using today. Pick this scripture; toss that principle; ignore Galatians over here; apply it over there.

    Christ, what a load of utter twaddle. I can't believe I ever bought any of it...Oh, yeah, I forgot. I was raised in it. I have an excuse. What's yours?

    Francois

    NOTE TO GOVERNING BODY: You've been challenged to a debate, boys. Dont you have ANY balls?

  • teejay
    teejay

    Hello, Frank.

    Funny that you would bring up this subject about beards. About an hour or so ago I was thinking of starting a thread about beards. Mine. In the context of the Society's prohibition of them.

    Frank and teejay agreeing on something! Must be a full moon.

    I have a full beard now, only 'cause it's winter. I don't particularly care for it but I like shaving less, so...

    I've decided that once the temp reaches 70 I'll shave it back to my regular goatee, but a goatee I'll always have from here on out. Years ago I figured out my compulsion to have facial hair above and beyond the WTS 'approved' "neatly trimmed" mustache: my way of saying "fuck you, Watchtower. I'll groom myself anyway I damn well please, thank you very much."

    tj

  • VM44
    VM44

    There used to be a little known teaching of the Watchtower that
    perfect men would not grow beards, hence the illustrations in
    the publications from the 1920s to the mid 1960s of Jesus and Adam
    both being beardless. See the Paradise book for some good examples
    of this.

    Rutherford HATED beards!

    --VM44

  • teejay
    teejay

    He hated beards because they reminded him too much of a man he reckoned was his superior... a certain Pastor whose shadow he never got out from under. What the Judge never figured out was that being superior to him was all too easy.

  • QUEENIE
    QUEENIE

    O K -- I am female who is menapausal and I grow facial hair -- just one of those things that go with change of life what about me in regards to Bible Principals??? I NEED TO KNOW!!!

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