Bearded students on Ministry school?

by NikL 51 Replies latest jw friends

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  sir82

  so its a ministry SCHOOL once again.

  No it isn't - it's still the CLAM.

  OP just used a shortcut or used old terminology.
  
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  blondie

  Just wait in their proverbial new system on earth, men will be REQUIRED to have beards...I add that Adam was pictured beardless as well and now bearded, so that proves it will be required.

  Because jws are not really allowed to exercise their own "conscience" on matters but to impose them on others, many jws need written rules, or at least verbal ones from an authority figure.

  As to hair requirements, I remember a young sister who had cancer and had lost all her hair. It was almost impossible to fit a wig properly or for a scarf to stay on her head, so she went bare-headed. 2 elders approached her and said that her bald, balding head disturbed some sisters, made them think about cancer. She explained the difficulties but the elders insisted (turned out to be their wives). So she stayed in and called in to hear the meetings and started doing phone witnessing alone at home. Then 2 other elders called on her and asked why she was missing meetings and she told them about the first 2 elders concerns. That started a hidden war on the BOE that the CO was drawn into. She finally died which ended it to some degree. It is control folks not logic.
  
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  pale.emperor

  For the last year that i was a JW i had a beard. I was 50% awake about TTATT at the time.

  I gave a talk with a beard and was the first to do so since 1970s. Now, most men in my old congregation are sporting beards. Not the elders though.

  It seems individual congregations are unable to use common sense and think they must wait for permission from the GB popes before they let beards on the platform.

  CULT!!
  
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  neverendingjourney

  On my way out, about a dozen years ago, I started combing my hair more or less like this:

  

  It was a scandal and it did not sit well with my elder body. I was told I could not read the WT or give any parts unless I started combing my hair modestly.

  There were 3 types of approved haircuts for men in my hall, middle part, side part, slicked back:

  
  

  That being said, even with the approved hairstyles, your hair couldn't be long enough to cover your ears or extend past the collar of your shirt. And if you slicked it back, your hair couldn't be long enough to extend past your forehead if you were to pull it down over your face.

  Somebody came up with these rules back in the 60s and they stuck, even decades past the time when such hairstyles fell out of fashion. All those years I had been sitting there at the hall and only then did it strike me how odd all these men looked wearing one of three pre-approved, old-fashioned hairstyles.

  I would have probably gotten thrown out of the hall had I dared grow a beard.
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  undercover

  Some hairstyles for men from the 30s and 40s are now back in vogue. Getting your grandfathers haircut at an old school barber shop are the big thing now. And slathering greasy pomade to hold it all down.

  Whadyawannabet that if you came in to the hall with that now hip again look, you'd get called into the back room for a chat about proper grooming...
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  blondie

  undercover, I remember a brother who had a crewcut that he had since he was in his teens when it was approved and preferred to the Elvis looks. As he got older and older, his crewcut was less and less acceptable to the elders. They said they might appoint him an MS if he let his hair grow out.....died and was buried with his crewcut.
  
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  undercover

  I remember some brothers who were going bald just went ahead and finished it off with a razor. Guess what? Big no-no. Elders counseled them on being 'fadish'. Let that wisp of hair grow back and comb it over like a good little slave...
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  blondie

  My husband was one of those elders, finally shaved off what was left. Saved him $12 to have a barber do it, finder's fee you see.

  Three weeks later the PO/COBOE came into the KH with a very faddy haircut, done for him by his faddy bible student. Nothing said, but many puzzled looks. He still had that do when we left 2 years later.

  
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  Finkelstein

  Jesus asks what is a measure of ones appearance toward a measure of their inner soul, I can see through all and that of their inner soul ?

  
  
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  UnshackleTheChains

  I wonder what Jesus would do with the elders hand book 🤔