My wife had a long drive home from North Yorkshire with her younger brother (who is a dub) last night. She was asking him questions about his social life and was very surprised at his response. Apparently, each week in London some brothers organize “raves” in various hired nightclubs. Usual attendance is between 300 – 400 and what they sometimes get up to, could be considered worse than a “worldly” club. The fee’s to get into the club are a little higher than normal, but almost everyone in attendance is a single witness. Sex in toilets, in the car park, in cars and even people getting a little too tactile on the dance floor is apparently quite common. Drugs are used and alcohol flows freely. No Kingdom melodies are played, only the type of music that the Watchtower forbids. The Elders are not aware of these raves, even though my Brother in law has attended one every weekend for the last few months, (and his father is an Elder) and usually doesn’t get home before 5am ON A SUNDAY MORNING! (This annoyed my wife who wasn't even be allowed to the cinema on a Saturday night if the film finished later than 9pm)
Back in my day (10 years ago) you were not even allowed to visit a band playing in a pub. If you did, you’d almost always get spied on, and the usual phone calls/visits from Elders would follow. Even parties at home were frowned upon, no alcohol was ever allowed, the music was always some crap like Phil Collins and there was always a MS or a “young” Elder present to make sure no one held hands or made eye contact for too long.
Does anyone know anything about this? Is this just a London phenomenon? And why the hell wasn’t there stuff like this when I was a dub?!
I can’t imagine this will continue for too long before someone gets wind of it. Lets hope that when they do, there will be a mass exodus of young people who, in all honesty, are only doing what normal young people do.