The Sims and The Sims Online

by Swan 2 Replies latest social entertainment

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  Swan

  One of my favorite computer games is The Sims, but I got to thinking that if I was still a JW, I probably wouldn't be allowed to play it. There were so many things growing up that we couldn't play with or do because of this or that regulation. Examples:

  Smurfs
  Trolls
  Chess
  Magic tricks with coins or cards
  Toy guns (including squirt guns. My mother even snipped off the guns of my brothers' cowboy sets)
  Barbie
  Doctor/Nurse hypodermic (removed by my mother because they were for vaccinations)
  The Lord of the Rings

  Now I've heard that Harry Potter books are also being banned.

  So, what about The Sims? Does anyone play that? Have the JWs banned that too? I imagine it will happen eventually if it hasn't already because of the astrological overtones in the Sim personalities and because they are bisexual. They also have Christmas Trees, Minorehs (sp?), birthday cakes, and genie lamps.

  In the new version The Sims Online, the Sims are combined with the Internet to create an online world. I imagine the JWs will especially ban that because of the Internet element. How would a JW know that the Sim he is talking to online isn't an xJW? Do bad Sim associations spoil bad Sim habits?

  Does anyone else who plays this game care to venture an opinion on when they will counsel against the Sims?

  Tammy
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  gsx1138

  I can tell you right now when Sims Online gets going all you're going to see is giant orgies and robberies. Most people escape reality by playing games. Not everyone is a pimp or ho in real life so I can tell you that this game will be full of them. As for the JW's, my mother who is still a dub has started watching rated R movies. Maybe there is hope.
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  jehovahater

  So I take it that everyone on here aren't JW's. Anyways....wouldn't it be funny to have Jehova's Witness' in future versions of The Sims. They could come and knock on the door and initiate conversation and then show the homeowners becoming irrate. Add guns to the game and you could direct them to the gun rack where they would pick up a gun and shoot em off their porch.