by metatron 4 Replies latest jw friends
Imagine a large well-funded wedding reception for
an elder's so. They play music and everybody's
dancing (including two elders)
I had to laugh when they danced to the Village
People's "YMCA" -- for at least a couple reasons.
("Young Man, There's a place you can go....")
metatron
We once had a Ministerial Servants meeting where the Presiding Overseer said that there were important matters to be discussed... child abuse? suicide? intolerance? No! he warned us that too many people had been pleaying YMCA and The Macarena at their weddings. GROAN! Witnesses are ultra-homophobic. They even forbade us from listening to David Bowie becuase he was deemed as being a "bad influence". What a way to live... I hope one fo these days some of the elders in the congregation I attended will step out of their caves and live the 21st Century just like the rest of us...Anywho...
Preston, you're right on.
At my KH just outside Atlanta, there was the one elder, C.B. Mitchell, who loved to get up after the ministry school and light into everyone for going rollerskating at a rink down in Riverdale. He was a veritable broken record on the subject.
While he was worrying about rollerskating, there was incestuous child abuse going on right in front of his nose in that congregation. Those guys are not trained to recognize when the potential for something serious is present and so they miss it completely.
Rollerskating? My ass!
Francois
Where it is a duty to worship the Sun you can be sure that a study of the laws of heat is a crime.
Francoise,
What about your ass honey?
think41self
"When agnostics die, do they go to the great perhaps"?
Francoise,
What's wrong with skating in Riverdale??? Surely Archie and the gang are wholesome role models!
