What Written & Unwritten Rules Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have?

by minimus 14 Replies latest jw friends

  • Sabin
    Sabin
    Marking Disorderly ones.
  • Heaven
    Heaven
    Reporting Field Serve-Us time.
  • Brock Talon
    Brock Talon

    My top 20 list of the things you can't do as a JW:

    #20 - Can't watch Rated R movies. (Even some PG-13 are not allowable if they are "violent" or "demonic")

    #19 - Can't watch cartoons that are "demonic" like Casper or the Smurfs.

    #18 - Men can't wear beards. (Women can though, if they have a hormone problem... seen this from time to time actually...)

    #17 - Can't listen to "music that debases". (Really, did early day Christians worry about singing evil "Roman songs"?)

    #16 - Can't miss meetings, even if your employer mandates it. If so, you have to quit. (Did early day Christians do this?)

    #15 - Men can't wear black or dark shirts on stage.

    #13 - Men have to wear a suit or sports coat and tie to every meeting. (Do you really think early day Christians had to do the equivalent?)

    #12 - Women can't wear skirts or dresses that are too far above the knee.

    #11 - Women can't show ANY cleavage... ever. (Worst rule... ever)

    #10 - Can't smoke... anything.

    #9 - Can't vote, even for a local neighborhood issue.

    #8 - Can't be a policeman, join the army, or really have any kind of secular authority in the world.

    #7 - Can't date "too long" or you are not serious about marriage and won't "be used".

    #6 - Can't be engaged "too long" or you are not serious about marriage and won't "be used".

    #5 - Can't swear. (The Bible talks about swearing all the time and that a "good" person can in fact swear given the right circumstances.)

    #4 - Can't masturbate. (In reality, pretty much EVERYONE ignores this rule, but lie about it.)

    #3 - Men can't wear their hair over their ears. (Did early day Christians really care about this kind of thing?)

    #2 - Can't have "worldly" friends. (Why not? How else can we win people over? By being xenophobic weirdos?)

    And #1 is...

    Can't question an all powerful, all knowing "organization" about anything, even if they've proven to be wrong repeatedly since the time the organization was organized.

    -Brock Talon

  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    Good list Brock.

  • krejames
    krejames
    No IVF.

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