by Nan 30 Replies latest jw friends
I couldn't believe this list of CANNOTS that JWs have to adhere to! I already knew about the Holidays, blood tranfusions, the pledge, etc. etc., but I didn't know about all the others. There's maybe one or two that I would agree are for your own good, but the rest are ridiculous!! I knew this was a very manipulative, controlling cult, but this is unbelieveable!
Become a Jehovah's Witness and you can't...
I did all the things listed here. I guess that's why they always thought I was "bad association" when I was in.
Walter
Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving
Buy lottery tickets
Date without supervision - young or old
Watch R rated movies
Smoke cigarettes, pipes or a cigars
Say curse words
Toast drinks (pagan origin)
Say "Good Luck!", "Wish me Luck", "I was Lucky" or "You were Lucky"
Eat Lucky Charms Cereal (References to Magical)
Read Horoscopes
Watch TV shows, "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", "Touched by an Angel", or "Bewitched"
Talk with disfellowshipped ones
Read negative information about the Society
Question the Watchtower Society on anything
Exercise your on conscience if it goes against the religion
Question the Society or the Organization
Well,
That's not entirely true, but it it is mostly true. Officailly, perhaps, your list covers the stance of the WTO, with the exception of Jesus being our personal savior and redeemer. And the rest of the list, while perhaps "officially" off-limits, still has many secret practioners, like eating Thanksgiving Dinner on T-Day, as long as you call it a coincidence, going to the Prom as long as you don't "push it" on others, etc.
Still, it's a wacky, mixed-up, man-made organization that puts the "organization" in the seat of God and mediator. Just a nother false religion.
This should be their logo
Wow, Nan
You said it all! ....and do not forget to add "....sex before marriage". Any self respecting Jehovahs Witness would rather die! ( at least he would be resurrected---but sex before marriage! Oh no!)
Why would anyone possibly be intereseted? go figure....
Hi Nan,
Having been raised a Dub, all I can say is, "Been there, didn't do that."
Well, I did wear pants to the Kingdom Hall once. It was raining, I had to work that day and wore slacks and a blouse with a long raincoat and boots. I was too tired to go home and change. No one ever noticed, but I did sit near the back.
Oh yeah, I wore jeans to bookstudy once too........... but I was moving, it was either go as I was or not go. I had a nice bookstudy group, though.
Do you think I might get in trouble? On Thanksgiving my disfellowshipped, girl friend stopped by to eat turkey and watch Bewitched with me. It was the episode where Darrin leaves Samantha for a cute Warlock. We toasted the fact that fate brought us together?that, and a mutual friend down at the tattoo parlor. After dinner we grabbed our matching smurf dolls we bought at the Salvation Army and went to the Lutherans big rummage sale looking for used smurf clothes.
After a while we got the munchies from smoking a couple a great Cuban cigars (yeah, right!) so we headed over to Our Lady of Devine Intervention where they were selling some totally dee-licious baked cookies in the shape of crosses. While we were there Father O?Really conned us into buying some of his annual Blood Drive raffle tickets and we signed up for his karate classes held every Saturday morning (oops there goes service). As I wished him ?Good Luck? on his raffle, my partner, who was wearing a jean-style miniskirt, uttered,
Holy S#@%! I asked her what was wrong. She said she had to get to the store before it closed and buy her kids some Lucky Charms, apparently because they had early Scout meetings the next morning and she wanted them to have a good breakfast.I told her it would be a gamble but we could try and beat all the red lights on the way to the store?but wouldn?t you know it, my Army surplus, camouflage coat got caught on the door costing us precious time and fulfilling my daily horoscope that mentioned something about a ?personal hang-up in my life.? With tires screaming the first two lights were a breeze but as we rounded the corner on Elm street, Brother Richard Head (we usually call him by his nickname) pulled his gardening truck in front of us causing my Saint Christopher to fly off the dash and my disfellowshipped girl friend to scream
YOU A#@#@H#@!! and threaten him with civil litigation. So we went back home and studied our Watchtowers for the next day!-BONEZZ
you forgot the number one thing: MASTURBATE !!!
