Blue Jeans BANNED by Jehovahs Witnesses Governing body

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  edmond dantes

  For anybody attending an international convention.

  5 Body of elders letters just leaked. In one it says this.

  Come Alive with Dream Latin Ladies Start NOW !

  Thats what I get on the right of the screen and the lady in the picture might not be wearing blue jeans she might be wearing shorts.

  Joking apart who's to say Jeans are not exemplary when sight seeing the Prime Minister of G.B. has worn jeans on vacation and I am sure the U.S. President has. My choice of exemplary dress might be a kilt so I hope the 5 gibbering body of elders do not stare too hard at my luxury mink dress sporran.
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  new hope and happiness

  If i go too a lynyrd Skynyrd concert...i would feel pretty stupid in a suit and tie. when i was a kid grown men went to work in a bowler hat...being told how to dress? i guess how we dress is a uniform.....funny when at school i thought wearing the leather jacket and jeans were cool. I can see why an organization needs a dress code..but i am an individual now...oh my job says different.

  School, witnesses, Mcdonalds, lynyrd skynyrd, ...the crazy thing is now ive got in to fashion its exspensive and personal self worth ...why did i spend silly money on a designer shirt? I need it. I feel good in it? Sad...how we judge by cloths but i understand why an organization has a dress code.
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  blondie

  I knew a brother than would never wear blue jeans, but never kicked off the cow manure from his boots when he went to the book study.
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  jws

  My dad had a friend who used to live up north. He would insist on wearing a suit coat no matter what the weather. Even if it was in the 90's (hot for up there). When asked why (when even others would remove their suit coats), he adamantly said "HE is a servant of Jehovah"!

  Years later, he had moved to Florida and had a book study at his house. When visiting we went and he conducted in a Hawiian shirt and bermuda shorts. What a change!

  Culture has changed. Go into a Kingdom Hall and it looks so out-dated.

  I'm an atheist, but I did go to a church recently. A former co-worker had taken over as director of operations at a church and I went to see him. My fomer co-worker didn't create the atmosphere, but it sure surprised me. I dressed in business casual and felt way out of place. If I'd have worn a suit, I'd have looked ridiculous and really stood out.

  Most of the guys were wearing khaki shorts with a nice, casual shirt. Polos, or button-downs untucked. There was a girl in her early 20's with great legs and an outfit where the bottoms were more like shorts. Showed off almost all of those legs. Maybe it was the setting, but it really turned me on. The preacher and head of the church was up on stage in jeans and a polo shirt.

  Years ago, my ex wanted to try to find a church and we tried a bunch. At some, they wore suits. At others it was business casual (polo, long khakis), but this place blew me away. Imagine it, church and being comfortable.

  At my old job, they used to require suits. It was horrible. I'd travel into town to work, but afterwards, there's nothing you really want to do until you go change. They changed to business casual and jean Fridays. Now, after work, I could go right from work and do something and not feel out of place. It was awesome and you don't believe the mental change in attitude. The feeling of freedom.

  JWs are out of touch. Don't they realize they look like freaks and only more cultish? As bad as Mormons in their black & white uniforms.
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  Oubliette

  Dressing for Jesus, according to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses

  Forbidden Blue Jeans:

  

  But these are black so they should be just fine!

  

  Every time they make another rule they end up missing the point in a whole new way.
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  Oubliette

  Acceptable:

  Not acceptable:
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  St George of England

  When I was working I always wore a suit, it was just expected. I didn't mind, they were paying me.

  The WTS can tell me what to wear when they start paying me to attend.

  George
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  Band on the Run

  Save me from laughing so hard. The Bethel group thinks it is the epitome of elegance and Godly fashion. I try to blot out Bethel as much as possible, particularly whenever I must go to Brooklyn. I love Brooklyn! So I am so focused on my relationship problems or some problem at work. Millions upon millions of people ride the subway in Brooklyn. So the Witnesses are the last thing on my mind when I sit down or even when I am forced to stand for hours on the subway. Before my mind can process it, I know in my gut that I am on the same train as Bethelites! Today's Bethel is so dinky compared to Brooklyn as a whole. Other people are staring at them. I am so violated by their presence b/c of my father that I am furious with God. Why me out of the millions who can get stuck in a car for them for one subway stop?

  Now, I cannot do whatever I planned to do b/c they upset me so much. I am so bad at flirting. Guess who discovers she can flirt and play with Bethel minds just a bit? They have no idea b/c the WT selected all their clothing and no one knows more than I do. The signal it sends as I scan the whole subway car is people are shocked. Their faces are puzzled. I don't understand it b/c unlike everyone else here I never know everything about everything. Suffice it to say that somehow they are now the least godly and upright people as far as the entire subway car is concerned. Yet I stick with it, there is no single item that is so outrageous to get the attention it is getting. NYers are very polite. Nevertheless, I can read frazzled brains and Bethelites.

  When the subway car finally arrives at the next station, I leap up to escape. They are so funny when you have the power to walk away. I think it is funny b/c of my WT upbringing. It is so funny that I tell Jewish and true Christian friends about my experience. They laugh, too. So in their effort to impress and pass as important people, the WT Bethelites are now signaled out as total dunces. To be fair, it may also involve body language, etc.
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  ChuckD

  Hold on a minute here, this is not quite what it seems. I am not defending them at all, but what they are talking about is NOT applicable to the rank & file attending a district or circuit convention; they are talking about their pre-selected delegates at INTERNATIONAL conventions, which are events that the regular publishers aren't able to attend at all. The delegates are all selected from among the most squeaky-clean, ass-kissingest there are, and they are often traveling internationally for the first time and have no idea how to behave outside their Podunk town. Anhd in many cases, the "delegates" are having their trips paid for or subsidized by the folks back home. It is not at all unreasonable for the society to provide these sort of guidelines, especially some of these hicks may be traveling to countries where blue jeans are simply not socially acceptable. But still, fuck 'em.
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  sir82

  events that the regular publishers aren't able to attend at all.

  Not exactly true - eligible to attend are all elders, MS, pioneers, and "regular" publishers baptized 20+ years, plus their families. That probably represents about 80% of the JW population, at least in the US.

  some of these hicks may be traveling to countries where blue jeans are simply not socially acceptable.

  Right, you never see blue jeans in Athens or Sydney or Mexico City.

  But still, fuck 'em.

  I would, but they're so unattractive in black polyester....