Blue Jeans BANNED by Jehovahs Witnesses Governing body (page 6)

BluePill2

AndDontCallMeShirley: This is pure comedy gold, right there. You should write more for the WT$.

MrFreeze

They didn't want us to wear blue jeans when I went to the International Convention back in 2009.

Here's a thing I don't get about this most of all. People will come to international conventions in all sorts of outfits from their native land. Why is wearing blue jeans when out after the convention such a big deal?

trujw

As Paul brought up. Soon just like Amish, German Baptist and Hasidic Jews who all have thier holy costumes. The suite will become the trade mark clothes of Jws in the next 30 years.

Sammy Jenkis

Wow the JW stuff doesn't usually surprise me but the blue jean thing really did it for me.

mP

The OT i believe reserves a blue fringe for the high priests. im not sure if the watchtower is somehow equating jeans and the frilly dresses of these priests, but anyting is possible. Certainly the holy aspect of blue in this case appears to be telling. The flag of Israel is also blue on white for probably similar reasons.

Perhaps they are making a statement that only the high priests aka them are allowed to be special enuff for blue.

AndDontCallMeShirley

" Many people today do not understand the reasons for the law about fringes and blue threads. Do you understand why this law was important? One reason is that it made God’s people different from all the other nations around them. And if they really wanted to please Jehovah, they had to be different from the other nations." (W 7-15-2011, p.7)

God had no problem with slavery, mysogyny, incest and genocide, but the color of thread in clothing was all-important.

I'm glad god has his priorities in order.

mP

@Shirley

Exactly, they are reserving the blue jeans for the GB. Since everyone else is not as special they cant wear blue. Colour has often been used to mark different classses of people. Look at the Roman church for another example, only the pope is white, cardinals red etc.

Jeffro

If someone applies to go to an 'International Convention', they must be an 'examplary publisher'™; they "are expected to comply" with specific dress standards, and "are required to use only those hotels on the approved list", which "may be much higher than at district convention cities in your home country". They have to pay for their own flights, accommodation, meals and transport, with the exception that there may be a bus available only on the days of the convention, but "The delegate will be expected to help defray the bus expenses by putting something extra in a contribution box at the convention".

But since JW conventions are open to the public, any JW can go to any convention, wear whatever they like, and probably save money on a cheaper hotel organised by a proper travel agent or hotel website.

The 'arrangements' for 'applicants' serve two purposes. 1) A sense of 'elitism' for those who spend more time pushing Watch Tower Society literature; 2) kickbacks from 'approved hotels'.

Morons.

BU2B

That was Gold ADCMS! The sad part is, although that was satire, it really was almost identical to their reasoning on many dubious subjects where they take a principle and make hard and fast rules out of them, beyond what is written.

Blue Jeans BANNED by Jehovahs Witnesses Governing body

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