pale.emperor:
On a side note, I think I found another subliminal artwork 😜 Look at that tree grinning at the bearded stakee.
neat blue dog
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
Wow, Wake Me, that's a pretty spot on comparison
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neat blue dog
A thermal exaust port, which could be any GB member's mouth seeing as they're full of hot air.
BTW your user name would be much funnier and clear if it were just Darth Fader, instead of FayDehr which is used by another board member.
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
And it shall not be shaved off until the generation that saw the first X Men movie passes away.
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
Yes, two of the four major components: mustache, chin, and both sideburns.
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
So by JW theology this is technically allowable 😜
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
It's funny though, while beards (anything on the chin basically) are off limits, JWs will sometimes see how far they can go with 'mustaches' that are so close to being beards, and/or 'sideburns' that do the same.
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
One apologetic phrase I've heard regurgitated among American JWs is:
'Over here beards aren't the custom.'
That makes zero sense, seeing as there IS NO cultural 'custom' regarding beards in America . . . Some people have them, some don't. Now on the other hand, JWs definitely DO have a long-standing custom, 'tradition of men' if you will, against the wearing of beards.
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
Betheliesalot:
Lol, mental picture 😂
I guess the same goes for beards
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Beards and Circumcision: turning their argument around
by neat blue dog inone argument against beards i've heard multiple times, both from individual jws and from the platform is roughly:.
'timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others!
shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that?
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neat blue dog
One argument against beards I've heard multiple times, both from individual JWs and from the platform is roughly:
'Timothy got circumcised so as not to stumble others! Shouldn't you be thankful you don't have to do that? Shaving is much easier!'
Putting aside the fact that it has nothing to do with something being 'easy' or 'difficult', and everything to do with the principles involved, let's take them up on this comparison:
Timothy was circumcised specifically to not offend the non-Christians he was going to be preaching to. There is no place in the civilized world that I am aware of that looks down on well groomed beards, so therefore there would be no reason to shave for the sake of preaching to others, seeing as many respectable people from all over the world have them: doctors, lawyers, police officers, fathers, grandfathers, clergy, etc. This alone renders the comparison irrelevant.
But couldn't the same principle apply to the congregation, who are offended by beards? Let's see the very different way circumcision was viewed when imposed by FELLOW Christians, in Galatians:
not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour . . .
All those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who try to compel you to get circumcised, doing so only to avoid being persecuted . . .
For neither is circumcision anything nor is uncircumcision
The phrase "stumbled" is all too often misunderstood by JWs to mean 'offended', but it actually refers to being stumbled away from Christ. If the offendee still claims to be a Christian, then they're just attempting to impose their own conscience on others, a conscience which itself has already been imposed on by a high-control group.