What I think is funny is in the early 80s you couldn't have a beard but a mustache was ok. Well at the same time having a mustache was code in the gay community that you too were gay.
Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall
by UnshackleTheChains 38 Replies latest social humour
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jambon1
In my local area I note that a lot of the witnesses now have beards. I don't know if I'm imagining it but it seems that way. I am unaware whether or not these individuals qualify for provelidges but I know one beardy-bob who does literature.
The world is full of so many important and pressing matters. Facial hair on a man really isn't up there. Which makes the whole JW religion such a petty, prejudiced, intolerant non entity full of self important, authority crazed, assholes.
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compound complex
"In my local area I note that a lot of the witnesses now have beards." -- jambon1
Here, too.
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Vidiot
Crazyguy - "... in the early 80s you couldn't have a beard but a mustache was ok."
Probably because the appearance of a mustache seems to instill a measure of authority in the wearer in many authoritarian regimes... for example, it's sometimes encouraged amongst police officers, even in a number of western cultures.
And the WTS is all about male authority.
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Incognito
I pointed out that Brother Trash Collector, the elder had a mustache, to which they replied that he has always had one, which made it OK. - Stillin
To which my reply would be: So, he was born with it?
or: I now have one too
or: I must have missed where the bible forbids mustaches (or beards). Will you show me the specific scripture?
I was complemented ... By an elder's wife, no less. - vidiot
She may personally like beards, which unfortunately conflicts with the party line. Since it is a conflict, it's surprising she even commented to the positive.
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compound complex
Well, whether or not they say it, many people, JWs included, like long hair and beards on men. I always got love bombed at the KH.
"Oh, don't cut it! It's so romantic!"
Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, the men, too.
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Bugbear
My response to various comments that I got when starting to grow a beard before I faded, was always: If your God YAWHE has given me a gift as a man, would n´t it be very ungrateful trying every morning to get rid of his gift…..
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UnshackleTheChains
My response to various comments that I got when starting to grow a beard before I faded, was always: If your God YAWHE has given me a gift as a man, would n´t it be very ungrateful trying every morning to get rid of his gift…..
Was this the kind of facial reaction you received when you gave your response bugbear 😁
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Bugbear
They looked like birds nests in their face