10 hours a month
5 meetings a week
No Beards
Bad Association
No school activities
What does any of that have to do with my faith in God and Jesus.
AND THEY CALL IT THE TRUTH!!!
Diamond
JW Rules That Are Just "Too Much"!
by Ephanyminitas 57 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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DIAMOND
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nita6368
Ritualistic Voodoo Twist, now tell me someone doesn't have too much time on their hands:)We were also banned from the twist in KY but elders actually thought the macarena was an appropriate dance at gatherings, imagine that.No ninja turtles, power rangers, squirt guns.
It was said that women who did not wear panty hose to meetings in summer but went bare legged were not submissive.I remember going into the movie rental store and if I even read the jacket of an R rated movie it was like looking all around to make sure no other witnesses saw you, crazy:)First thing I did when I left the org...bought a 2 door car and got a tattoo:) people avoid me like the plague. -
SYN
The idiots who wrote that article in the 60s would have had a heart-attack if they could see a rave or a Limp Biskit concert today!
I'm sure glad we don't vote anymore like we did before we got the truth. Now we get to complain about everything ALL the politicians do!
[SYN], UADA - Unseen Apostate Directorate, Africa -
Room 215
Hey Fark,
Not only are all the geezers dead who banned The Twist, there ain't too many of us who danced it left either!
Albie(Jerry Lee Lewis Class)
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LDH
Vigorous movement in itself is not the determining factor; the polka is fast but not necessarily erotic
Governing Body Members: (past or present)
Henschel
Schroeder
SwingleAnybody else see a pattern here?!?!?!?
ANYHEW, on this site, http://www.jwfiles.com/ , you'll find all the cans and can'ts of being a JW. I've cut and pasted them. Enjoy!
BECOME A JW and you can't
Celebrate Mother's Day
Celebrate Father's Day
Celebrate Grandparent's Day
Celebrate Birthdays
Celebrate Thanksgiving
Celebrate New Year's Day
Celebrate Christmas
Celebrate Halloween
Celebrate Easter
Celebrate Flag Day
Celebrate Independence Day (Fourth of July)
Celebrate Hanukkah
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day
Celebrate Valentine's Day
Celebrate "Any" Holiday
Sing any Holiday Songs
Eat turkey on Thanksgiving
Join the Boy Scouts
Join the Girl Scouts
Buy Girl Scout Cookies
Become a Cheerleader
Attend class reunions (No "Worldly" association)
Go to the school prom
Play School Sports (No competition allowed)
Play Professional Sports
Join any organization that has ties to Christianity
Shop at the Salvation Army
Volunteer for the Salvation Army
Shop at Church run thrift stores
Shop at Church Garage Sales
Shop at any Store that has Christian ties
Contribute to the Red Cross
Join the YMCA
Join the Military
Attend Alcoholics Anonymous
Salute the Flag
Sing the National Anthem
Go to War
Learn karate
Vote (Conscience matter now to please Governments, you will be ostracized if you do)
Run for any Public Office
Campaign for a Candidate
Can join union, but not participate in its affairs
Buy lottery tickets
Gamble
Date without supervision - young or old
Watch R rated movies
Cannot work on another Church if it's a regular customer
Smoke cigarettes, pipes or a cigars
Sell cigarettes, pipes or a cigars
Accept Blood
Donate Blood
Wear blue jeans or casual clothes to the Kingdom Hall
Wear pants to the Kingdom Hall if you are a female
Wear skirts or dresses that are above the knee at any time
Wear any type of long hair if you are a man
Wear a beard in some Kingdom Halls and areas (judged hard)
Pierce ears if male, other body parts if female
Have any Tattoos
Say curse words
Toast drinks (pagan origin)
Throw rice at a wedding (pagan origin)
Say "Bless You" when someone sneezes
Say "Good Luck!", "Wish me Luck", "I was Lucky" or "You were Lucky"
Tell ghost stories
Practice Yoga
Own a Smurf
Watch TV shows, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "Touched by an Angel", or "Bewitched"
Say "It was fate" or mention anything to do with "fate"
Engage in any risky acts such as: Sky Diving, Bungie Jumping & Hang Gliding
Have Jesus as your Mediator and Savior
Wear or own a Cross
Attend another Church (Spiritual Fornication)
Associate on a regular basis with nonbelievers
Associate with ex-members
Associate with disfellowshipped ones
Talk with disfellowshipped ones
Marry a nonbeliever (If you do, you are judged hard by the congregation)
Marry in another Church or attend a wedding in another Church
Have a funeral in another Church or attend a funeral in another Church
Pray, including holding your head down, when a nonbeliever prays
Study other religious articles not from the Society
Read negative information about the Society
Question the Watchtower Society on anything
Exercise your on conscience if it goes against the religion
Question Anything!
Have Christian freedom
If you are a woman you can't pray in the presence of men, without a covering on your headBecome a Jehovah's Witness and you shouldn't....
.... if you do you will be looked down uponDiscuss politics
Get on the Internet
Attend social functions organized by your place of work
Associate with worldly neighbors
Attend College (The Society has lightened up on this somewhat, but if you attend you are not putting Kingdom interests first, and will be judged.)Become a Jehovah's Witness and you have to....
Attend several regular meetings each week
Go out in field service regularly to recruit new members
Report your field service activity to the congregation each month
Attend regular scheduled conventions
Give talks at the congregation (whether young or old, male or female)
Read and fully understand their teachings
Prepare for each meeting
Study with family
Fully accept the Watchtower's authority and rules (no exceptions)
Dress according to their rules at the Kingdom Halls, Service and conventions (no exceptions)Women and small girls must wear dresses
Men must wear dress pants with dress shirts and ties
Associate only with fellow members
Report on fellow members including your family, if they are caught doing something against Society's rules
You have to sing at the meetings (even if you have a bad voice) - or you are looked down upon -
Fire Dragon
I remember the CO said from the platform at a convention one year that Tom & Jerry was too violent! Get a grip people!
Nita...you go! Good for you. I've been thinking of getting a tattoo myself.
"...if there is a hell, I'll see you there." (NIN - Downward Spiral)
I'll be the one providing the fire. -
artful
Aside from the many points mentioned above.
1. Being 'stongly advised' by family and Elders not to have my brother whom I was closest to as my best man OR MC at my wedding. Although 10 years my senior and living a clean, moral life with his wife and 2 kids, he was not a baptised JW, and therefore prohibited from such priviledges as per a WTS article (sometime in the late 80's) which discussed the 'qualifications' necessary for the 'Master of the Feast' and wedding party.
What a disgrace! What regret I have over that.
2. Not being able to raise a glass and say 'cheers' at work functions or when with friends. I now make a point of doing this whenever I am around family, or former JW associates. Recent "new light" has made this semi-acceptable in JW circles - although they will still glance around sheepishly if they do it!
cheers
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TheStar
Hey Fire,
I was about to say the same thing, stop reading my mind!
But I heard this at a Sunday Public talk in Spanish when I accompanied my husband not too long ago. The brother giving the talk was so serious. He said "Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny" remember those cartoons. Just fun cartoons right? NO Friends these are VOILENT cartoons." I just had to roll my eyes and I wispered in my husband's ear "I grew up on those cartoons and I didn't turn out violent." I couldn't help myself, it just irked me.
BTW, Don't get a tattoo.. hehe.. just kidding, do whatever you want.
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termite 35
Ephan;Thanks for that thread-I needed to get that out.YES!I WENT.As did so many friends and family that some could not get into the church.The service was full of beauty,memories,comfort and gratitude and so unlike a witless fureral.We went from there to a crematorium,to her favourute hotel,then to an internment at a churchyard as the sun was setting in orange and purple on a hazy summer evening.And they thought I would'nt find comfort in that? Imagine how i'd be NOW, if I had'nt gone then?Apparently I proved how spiritually weak I was by going. They won't get that,how sad.
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