The year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the Bible with me drove by and had a full on "Charles Manson" looking facial hair and beard. I asked Tina, a friend what's up with him? Tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication. Tina enjoyed sex more than a good conscience, and without missing a beat she said "all apostates grow beards when they leave Jehovah's Organization".
With a cargroup of elderly folks I am driving with, a former hustler of kingdom hall funds drives by and has a beard, the brother taking the lead in his cargroup said "You can always tell someone who the Holy Spirit has left. Look at his face, he's growing horns out like the Devil!"
Equating facial hair with ancient photos of goat shaped demons or a pitch-fork with horns demon, is the rantings of lunatics. Do men grow beards because they can or to get it out of their system?
We had brothers who would check the young microphone runners face by running their hands across their face, if the older creepy brothers hand felt a sharp pricking of facial hair, he would tell the young ones to go back and shave as nice a a baby's smooth butt or "your not going to do microphones today!" I know brothers who were humiliated because of facial hair and castagated by a "warning elder committee" afraid the brother might be harboring a secret sin, Jehovah reveals our secret sins when we forget to shave after two days. Little tell-tells of small amounts of facial hair growth is enough to set in motion a search party for apostate literature or give the young or early thirty-year olds the "third degree" for a hour in the Back Room. So why grow a beard since it scares Jehovah Witnesses with weak consciences?
Jehovah's Witnesses believe the appearance is what counts, not the person inside of the body we are. To them, when a brother starts to grow a beard it's the sign the Holy Spirit has left this person and a warning sign to all meek and humble dubs to avoid them at all cost. During Eric's video with the Elders of his Kingdom Hall, one of the youth approached him and was bothered by Eric's beard (Very Cool Style, Like Walt "Breaking Bad") and judged him without hearing any of his story. I thought Jehovah's Witnesses learned from the example of Samuel trying to pick the next king of Isreal from the line of Jesse.
If the first thing men do when they leave the Organization is grow a beard, what is the first thing women do who leave the Organization? To anyone who grew a beard, was it a uncontrollable urge to be rebellious?
You get tired of shaving everyday and wanted to see what it would look like over time?
Was it to scare all the local dubs to run and hide so you could shop at your favorite store without anyone bugging you?
