by goddess_baal 48 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Oh! I almost forgot.
Around that same time my '57 Chevy BelAire was adorned with one of those vinyl stickers. It was in the shape of a flower. (flower power, hippie influence?) At any rate my local PO told me if I was going out in field service that Sunday, he wouldn't be riding with me because of it.
Onintwo
A sister who was told by the elders not to pray with her husband! And brought to a judicial committee and threatened with DF if she did it again!!! (Her husband had been DF and they were now reconciled and were praying together about their marriage.)
This ranks up there among the most outrageous abuses of authority I've heard!!
A branch coordinator who rebuked an elder for saying that Holy Spirit directed the work at Bethel. He used the words, "What makes you think that Holy Spirit has anything to do with this place?"
Smart man...Do you think he's still there? I doubt it. ................................................ My burning incense was a problem for them. They kept asking me what do 'THEY' (the wicca types) use it for? I said, "It doesn't matter what they use it for! What matters is what I'm using it for!
Do not listen to disco music, and do not go to the Bee Gees in concert because in addition to evil satanic music someone would be smoking marijuana in the arena.
I was told not to associate with my disfellowshipped father except, of course, when we had to discuss "business" concerning my mother in the nursing home. By that time they were all starting to look like Bozo the Clown to me, so it didn't really matter what they said.
Nina
Grow a beard.... na, eat pu**y...na, go to college, na, join a labor union, wait..make a living and pay my bills......hmmn....so many silly things-so much wasted time
Not to wear clothes that were 'too fashionable.'
(they should be modest and attractive, but not too fashionable.)
Not to watch the cartoon, "Casper the Friendly Ghost," "The Adams Family," or "Bewitched."
Not to say the word, ?Lucky.? (Rather, use the word, ?Fortunate.?)
Cheesers, the more I think about it, the more angry I am with myself for meekly acceeding to such cobblers!
I remember my last two meetings with them and I wore these rather revealing tops that showed my tattoo in hopes of getting a reaction! hehehe!
not to study an '...ology' or an......... 'osophy' for that matter. Ridiculous!
All you need to do is read the awake...............
when i was d'fd the first time andsat through the meetings for a year and a half i was told that i was not allowed to take my two year old son out of the hall if he was screaming. I had to sit in my seat and only my wife was able to take the children out.
