What Watchtower Belief Is The Silliest To You??? (page 4)

Ciara

"Brothers" must wear white dress shirts only while giving parts on the meeting.

hooberus

noahs ark and 1914-jesus rule. picking dates just makes me laugh and the idea of packing 2 of all the millions of life forms, with enough food for them in a boat is just beyond all reasoning.

I don't know if the Watchtower has ever taught that the ark required "millions." (though perhaps they have). Most creationists believe that basic kinds were on the ark (around 16,000 or less animals). These later diversified through various processes (such as recombination, and sorting of existing genes) into the many species seen today.

myauntfanny

Most creationists believe that basic kinds were on the ark (around 16,000 or less animals).

Well, I don't know much about boats, but wouldn't you need a ship the size of the Titanic even to pack 16,000 animals?

Edited to add:

I think their silliest belief is that you can't be happy outside the org.

lazyslob

Nope the silliest is that you can be happy INSIDE the org

Dolllie

I am going to "absolutely" say that it is the "dress code for women" AND them(JW's) contradicting themselves when some one is not following it.

I studied with the Witnesses for about 8 months. At no point did I attend mettings in what was considered dress code. I wore nice, dress clothes, often things I designed & made myself. "real nice pantsuits, skorts, coullotts, dresses slightly above my knee.... no jeans or sweats or anything like that"

I went to lunch & a tour of the Patterson facility dressed in a pink pantsuit that I designed & made, and was "complemented on it", by numerous people including the Circut Overseer's wife.... saying "I was so creative"

"They make up their own rules about the dress code".... someone else was told she could not come with us because she & her daughter had on pants(jeans)

Roddy

2 for me---the doctrine of the "faithful and discreet slave" and the whole "blood thing"......And you??????

There are so many!

Monthly field service reports
The whole Field Service thing
Brothers not wearing a beard - even though Jesus has one
Sisters not wearing slacks - even in freezing weather
The WTS' unsolicited opinions and rulings on medial issues - including the issue of blood
Traveling overseers
Traveling overseer's reports on the congregation
Secretly held judicial meetings, no recording devices, no transcripts, no witnesses, records are made afterwards about you without your knowledge and examination, always two or more elders against one of you, you are guilty and you had to prove yourself innocent, and they had two or more weeks to prepare for the encounter while they spring-up the need for a meeting with you, at their right time, immediately after a meeting and attack you with the charges.
Gotta wear a suit to every meeting - even if it is a congregation book study in your own home
Questions and Answers - They read the question and you read the answer from the publication. Heaven forbid that there is actually any discussion!!! And what was the use of "studying and preparing" for the Watchtower
A brother sleeping overnight at a sister or women's house alone is grounds for scriptural divorce
A brother can't enter the home of a sister alone - but it is ok for the refrigerator repairman to enter the sister's home unchaperoned
Having an unkept lawn or car is a bad reflection on Jehovah
The need of a "witness" to prove child abuse
If a sister didn't scream during terrifying rape or molestation then she must have enjoyed it and is guilty of fornication
The need of a judical committee for matters where the police and the legal system is better at handling and which is the law of the land anyway
Collections for the circuit overseer
Meetings even on a friday night - I actually moved congregations when my assigned congregation scheduled one of the meetings on a friday. Apparently this was to give the friends, including young people, a spiritual place to go on a friday night. Heaven forbid they have such a good time friday night that they couldn't get up for saturday morning field service!
The "Donation arrangement" on literature
Calling the "selling" of literature "placements"
Using literature placements as a calling card to make return visits
The lastest Watchtower superceeds any and all previous Watchtowers and publications
Can't vote but ok to make letter writing campaigns to officals
Partial and incomplete quotations and references in publications
The stupid formatted Watchower LISTED branch mailing addresses of:

ALASKA 99507
PUERTO RICO 00970
HAWAII 96819
GUAM 96913
CANADA L7G 4Y4
ENGLAND NW7 1RN
TAIWAN 327
But the USA mailing address is correctly formatted, however

Ok that's all the time I have. Believe me I had more.

What Watchtower Belief Is The Silliest To You???