I thought KISS was popular in the late 70s....but what do I know...I was raised a JW! I also have older siblings and many older cousins so I knew who they were in 1980 when I was 6.
Ridicolous JW folklore
by Hellrider 44 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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under74
about not being supposed to eat brown eggs
OMG...never read this on the forum before...didn't really think it was a JW thing but when I was young my mom made a huge deal about not eating brown eggs because they weren't "healthy."
Yes, AC/DC. I remember my older brother turning on the radio once and AC/DC was on and my mom started screaming, "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!!!"
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skinnyboy
This is a great topic! I guess we grew up in the same time frame so we have the same dogma that crossed the Seas i bet! My favourite music growing up was always rock music, highly frowned upon in our hall, yet they were secretly jealous! As a good little publisher in my formative years, we used to have the "privledge" of cleaning the hall on a Saturday, noooooo, we didn't want to play football or go bike riding, we wanted to be cheap unpaid labour cleaning the fithy brothers and sisters' mess up! So payback, we used to crank out on the PA system whatever tape we had at the time, Hendrix was one of my favourites, although Motorhead did once get a play, the Ace of Spades!!! Respect? About the same as our efforts to clean the bogs up were given! As those famous words Mene Mene Tekel Parsin was the writing on the wall, i look back and see that those days where the writing on the wall for me, I had a brain and was determined to use it..... I also had a good collection of Iron maiden too!! Although i kept the artwork hidden under my bed! Good old Eddie, bet if they put an Iron Maiden cover on the front of the WatchTower the sheep wouldn't bat an eyelid! As regards food, Red Smarties and skittles were banned "officially" for they had the blood of beetles in them, never read that on the packs i bought though, you'd think consumers would want to know!! Cochineal eh... kept me hyper active for years!
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carla
Red Skittles?! you must be joking! no, I know your not! Blood of beetles?! Wow! insane. I guess you'd think they would list that huh? blood of beetles, eyes of newt, one frogs leg.......
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hideme
When I was a kid, we had no tv.
When I married we refused to have tv for the first couple of years. I remember how "the devil tried to let us have tv" because in one year we were offered a tv fro free, three times.(We really felt it that way!)
Now we have tv for 10 years or so. I love to see everything OLD, everything I missed when I was young. Ohwww. THAT's what everyone back then was talking about!!!
We were not allowed to see this blue little men "smurfs" (don't know if they were in other countries too??).
Music: I remember my mother and my brother arguing alot of times because he loved Queen. She said it was satanic (because there IS the word Beelzebub in the lyrics)
When I was older heard this great music...and later found out it was Queen ...eeeeks! Oh my...I must be such a wrong person to like this music!
Michael Jackson was soooo not done.
And R.E.M. I don't know why.
By the way I am still "inside" ...if you know what I mean.I love some music, I think it's gospel. (Young Messiah, Young Amadeus, etc) I think that's not okay...too. :)
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under74
Red Skittles? Was it supposed to be like the whole red M&Ms thing...where the dye was supposed to cause cancer?
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skinnyboy
Red Skittles?! you must be joking! no, I know your not! Blood of beetles?! Wow! insane. I guess you'd think they would list that huh? blood of beetles, eyes of newt, one frogs leg.......
I wish i was my friend! We had many a crackpot in our congregation, who would dream up this nonsense, and the Elders™ would jump on anything these fools would utter. It was never discussed per se but you knew about it, and it was suggested that we just do it "to be sure" freaks!!!
Same deal with anything remotely bloody, i remember going out after District Assembly to a restaurant and ordering a steak, nice and rare, when it came, there was audible gasps, no kidding, as they plough into their third bottle of wine!
I laugh now, but then, i was one confused dude! glad i listened to me that one time eh!
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Joel Wideman
We had ghost stories. Yep, sanctioned spiritism. It started when one family - non-JW - in the local news were reporting demonic visitations even after moving three times. (That itself is an interesting story of possible real estate fraud, but that's not the point.) Not to be outdone by a worldly family, the elders told horror stories of being strangled by their own ties while out in service, meeting demon-possessed householders who fled at Jehovah's name (that was probably legit, actually), and other crap obviously inspired by the Poltergeist and Exorcist movies.
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Hellrider
Ok,I just remembered another one. I`m not sure if it`s "folklore", or just something insane my grandma came up with. I remember that a kid started at my school, a refuge-kid from sout-America (Chile, I think, they ran from the military dictatorship), and this kids name was Jesus. I remember that I used to think that was so strange, and then I asked my grandmother, if someone could be called Jesus, were there people that were named Jehovah too? And then my grandma said that no, Jehovah had fixed it so that noone could be named Jehovah. And I asked "what if someone did, what if someone called their kid Jehovah". And my grandma said that if they did, Jehovah would kill them on the spot. LoL.
