Nose ring. Not acceptable unless you have just started to attend meetings. My son was a part of the congregation all his life......became inactive. He called me up and wanted to come to a meeting. He took out his nose ring, his eyebrow ring, his ear ring, and covered his tatoos. Even wore his suit. The "friends" came running up to him to welcome him back. When they noticed the holes from the rings they all moved away from him with open mouths. After the meeting everyone stayed away from him. He had tears in his eyes when we left the hall and never came back. I did notice a study at the assembly last month with a face full of metal...I mean big time. I didn't see anyone talking to him so Iwent up, shook his hand and said, "Finally someone with more piercings than my son!"
Ear rings. There was a sister that wanted to pioneer. At that time she had three or four piercings on each ear. Elders would not let her pioneer even if she only wore one ring in each ear. The reason.... pioneers were special and the extra holes made her look "worldly".
An older brother wanted to pioneer, but had arms full of tattos. The PO said no. The brother upset said to him, "Would you let me pioneer if I cut my arms off?" Another elder recommended Br. Tatto and he eventually was able to pioneer.
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