So THAT'S why JWs don't wear beards!

by leaving_quietly 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  leaving_quietly

  Comment by elder:

  "Some people say the Hebrews didn't shave, so why should we?" Then he proceeded to quote Genesis 41:14:

  So Phar′aoh sent for Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. He shaved and changed his clothes and went in to Phar′aoh.

  For real? First of all, this was LONG before the command to not shave. Secondly, after two years in prison, Joseph must have looked pretty ragged. This was out of respect for appearing before Pharaoh. It was all I could do to not show my complete and utter disgust at this twisting of the scriptures. I'm sure my wife picked up on it, though, as this is a hot-button topic for me, showing how JWs DO make rules.
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  Apognophos

  So you're acknowledging that people show respect for others by presenting themselves with a clean-shaven appearance?
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  jam

  The 50's and 60's was the Leave it to Beaver age. Men sporting beards

  were viewed as hippies, rebels. Crew cut was the norm and polyester.
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  Rattigan350

  It was because they are followers of Rutherford who didn't wear a beard to distance himself from Russell who did.
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  leaving_quietly

  So you're acknowledging that people show respect for others by presenting themselves with a clean-shaven appearance?

  Ah, I see what you did there... took my words about Joseph and applied them to everyone else. Nice!
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  Oubliette

  It's just another rule from the WT leadership. They are in control and you are not ... unless of course you decide they have no authority over you. Then, you are in control and they are not.
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  Island Man

  Actually, the ancient Egyptians were a culture where the men were customarily clean shaven, often shaving even the hair on their heads. I think they considered beards as unhigenic or something so Joseph could not appear before Paharoah with a beard.

  Today, JWs are immitating the ancient pagan Egyptians.
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  JustHuman14

  It has to do with Booze Jo...the real founder of JW's,
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  nonjwspouse

  There was also a status in the way a beard or haiir was cut. They had different status meanings back in that day.
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  WTWizard

  One scripture and the washtowel makes a rule based on it, despite that it is an isolated situation. Maybe I should rearrange the text so it says "Don't go from door in my name" (referring to joke-hova), don't meet in my name (again, joke-hova's name), and so on. And then make rules that we must practice witchcraft, become experts in astrology and black magick, and worship Satan--using their own LIE-ble. It takes simple rearrangements of proscriptions in doing these things (or requirements), skipping out negative terms, and making items that are banned in the LIE-ble but that are human nature into "scriptural" requirements.

  First: Do NOT use the LIE-ble as a guide. If you possess one of those damnation books, deface it and throw it away. Do not place those damnation books anywhere--and, if you already did, you need to go back and say that there is a curse on humanity and that book is the link through which it is to be executed. Keep that book, and you help the draconians and joke-hova (their leader) to enslave the whole human race.