This is just ridiculous after all the fun killing this cult has done since the early 90's. It's too late to make JW's look normal, and they have made too many changes in doctrine due to being exposed as an out of time doomsday cult.
Detroit Style Ballroom Dancing
by KateWild 39 Replies latest social entertainment
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LogCon
The Camo Harlem Shake at Cole's house.
Is that on the agenda too?
Jacka--ses!
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Mum
I'm gobsmacked! The dancers did not look like they were having fun. They were trying to be perfect and stay in perfect lock step. Any deviation from the rehearsed moves probably would have ended in a trip to the room in back. However, I am glad they got to learn some dance moves so that when they wake up, they can go dancing in the '50's and know what to do.
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ducatijoe
WOW... WTF... I leave and things go to hell!
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Shouldn't "Detroit Style" entertainment include Eminem?
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exwhyzee
At the beginning of the video, the guy talking was saying something about being able to sign up for Detroit style classes from coast to coast. I got the idea he may be selling some kind of dance lessons. If so, this whole dancing at the Hall business seems even more of a departure from the days when the Kingdom Hall was used strictly for worship purposes. We weren't supposed to even like popular music or it's performers in our private lives, but it seems that with the passage of time, they have been forgiven for their supposed immoral lifestyles and suggestive lyricls to the point that Mowtown music is being played inside the walls of "Jehovah's house". Of course Detroit is "Motown" but still, JW's are supposed to be no part of the world around them.
Having said that, I'm glad that they are loosening up a bit, if that's what's happening but for anyone who grew up in the restricted and regulated JW lifestyle, it makes the loss of ones youth that much harder to take. To a small degree it would be like not going to College when you were young, then years later finding out the Society had begun setting up scholarships or grants for deserving JW kids who wanted to go on to higher education. It would make a joke of your sacrafice.
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baldeagle
I find this dancing to a worldly song in the KH unbelievable. We used to have a Congregation Family Night every so often in our hall. Everyone brought food; we would eat it in the basement. We would later go upstairs to the auditorium and be entertained. Some played musical instruments, sang a song, or re-enacted a funny field service experience, etc. I was impressed at how talented some of our brothers & sisters were. This was stopped because we can’t have any entertainment in a house of worship!!
In the next congregation I was in, we would plan a night for the regular pioneers at the end of the year to show our appreciation for their hard work. Meals were prepared all were invited to associate together and later go upstairs for some entertainment in the main auditorium. The pioneers were given a gift, a congregation picture was taken. Harmless and encouraging right? Nope, this was stopped because too much time and planning was being used arranging the entertainment, using the stage and sound equipment for recreation!!
Everything had to be like Magnum said, “Every available minute was supposed to be spent in the ministry, studying, meditating, etc.”
Young JW’s couldn’t go to clubs, bars even with their peers because of the worldly atmosphere, music, and alcohol etc. So instead some brothers (16-21 yrs. old) arranged to play basketball in a gymnasium at a high school in our territory. Get some exercise, have a few laughs, blow off some steam. Harmless right? No a sanctimonious CO got that information and questioned us about it, at the Elders/MS meeting. You guessed it, it was stopped, use that time for studying instead, no fun allowed.
On another occasion two sisters attempted to plan a picnic for the congregation during the week of the CO’s visit. They told the PO at the time, who thought it, was a fabulous idea. This was deliberately timed (during the visit) in order to include the CO and his wife to free food, good association, and fresh air in the park. Harmless right? No this CO, the biggest egomaniac I ever had the misfortune of serving under, ordered the picnic cancelled. His attitude was that during HIS visit nothing should detract from the focus and purpose of HIS visit. I was present during all these events.
The above mentioned pompous, smug, “pieces of work” are now over 70 years old. I’ve heard that they have told their fellow JW’s that their “services are no longer required.” (Sept 1, 2014) As far as I’m concerned, “It’s been nice knowing you, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
As someone already mentioned, The Temptations are an American vocal group known for their success with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s. With all the nonsensical crap I’ve heard in decades while in this religion, I’m amazed that this short video occurred in a KH.
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zebagain
Someone mentioned funerals.. I would like a piper to play..'Black Bear' at mine.
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SadElder
Ted "the Boss: Jaracz would be having a fit if this were to occur during his reign... err... I meant life. He was the reason that Branch dedications stopped having musical programs. He made a trip to a foreign country (don't remember where maybe Chile) where they had a program of local musical culture and he had a fit. Gilead dedications became even more boring elininating any semblance of entertainment.
I used to say that if the Kingdub Hall is supposed to be the center for true worship, why weren't they also places for picnics and food and other things for wholesome entertainment? Did I get the looks over that.