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  The no beard or facial hair rule

  by Soldier77 in

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  okay, something that has always been a side point but still a rather ridiculous rule is that brothers cannot "serve" if they have a beard/goatee/anything more than just a moustache.

  at least in the states, i've heard of some congregations in some countries allow this, but they are the exception?

  your experience?.

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  Wannabefree, you could easily post a picture of someone gross who is clean shaven to make an argueement for staches. Rutherford, anyone?

  Soldier I'm down. Just give me a few weeks to settle my "congregation affairs"... he he.
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  The no beard or facial hair rule

  by Soldier77 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay, something that has always been a side point but still a rather ridiculous rule is that brothers cannot "serve" if they have a beard/goatee/anything more than just a moustache.

  at least in the states, i've heard of some congregations in some countries allow this, but they are the exception?

  your experience?.

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  Don't listen to laverite, mustaches are awesome.

  See: Tom Selleck.
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  The no beard or facial hair rule

  by Soldier77 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay, something that has always been a side point but still a rather ridiculous rule is that brothers cannot "serve" if they have a beard/goatee/anything more than just a moustache.

  at least in the states, i've heard of some congregations in some countries allow this, but they are the exception?

  your experience?.

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  Here in "southern" Canada, beards are frowned upon, and no serving men have them, not sure about the northern territories. I had this same issue and posted this topic a month or two ago. I grew a mustache, I know it's kind of funny, it's something I wanted to do but honestly I would rather grow a goatee.

  Soldier we should do a goatee pact. I think I'll grown one after my district convention with my family in July. After that I don't plan on going to meetings or service much.
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  Meeting experience

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this weeks service meeting was typical.. "where were you?

  " "i'm concerned about you".

  then the typical song and dance of the parts/talks, all recycled notions of doing better in the service.

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  Soldier I have a #3 talk coming up next month as well. I think I will actually cancel it and also my enrollment in the school.
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  Meeting experience

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this weeks service meeting was typical.. "where were you?

  " "i'm concerned about you".

  then the typical song and dance of the parts/talks, all recycled notions of doing better in the service.

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  This weeks service meeting was typical.

  "Where were you?" "I'm concerned about you". Then the typical song and dance of the parts/talks, all recycled notions of doing better in the service. The convention reminders were the best! We were treated like little children: don't take long bathroom breaks... well unless you have a medical condition but still try not to disrupt others. Bring a bagged lunch, arrive early, dont walk around too much, "fellowship" with others...

  FUUUUUUUCK!

  Thanks, got that off my chest.
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  Do you really want to live forever?

  by exwhyzee in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm not sure if i do or if thinking the idea of living forever as a "good thing" was just something that was planted in my mind like a lot of the other stuff.

  is the desire to live forever something that i really want or have i been taught that it is something that i should want?

  i know i don't want to die, especially a violent death, but i can't imagine still wanting to be here 10 million years from now just because back in 19xx my parents concieved me.

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  Of course I would, it is a human need to survive as long as possible. That singular thought is a huge drive for all us, excluding the suicidal. No doubt that compulsion has been twisted into many cooky life-after-death beliefs.
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  Intro-

  by LostnFound in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well i figure since i have been posting on this site, i might as well share my little bit.

  it's in no way unique or special, it just is what it is.

  from the time i was a tot, my parents took us to meetings.

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  A warm welcome from Canada LostnFound!

  Your story inspires me, as a newly fading witness, to realize the Judicial Committes are a farce, and I will not go to one unless I choose to D/A myself.
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  Generation teaching. What is it about witnesses that they don't see this for what it is?

  by garyneal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot for the life of me understand why jehovah's witnesses don't see right through the b.s.

  regarding their overlapping generation being equal to one generation.

  also, i am a bit perplexed at how little certain jehovah's witnesses know their own doctrine.. take my wife, for instance:.

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  Good point White Dove.

  I never really paid much attention to the generation teaching, as I relied on the idea that no one knows the hour or the day, but that it would come soon. I suppose my mind was clouded by mind control, I just obeyed blindly though some things did rub me wrong internally but where quickly dismissed or attributed to my own weaknesses.
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  Anxious about meeting...

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know there are other topics related to this, i started one earlier similar to this but here goes anyway.. so i skipped a couple of meetings of the co visit to hang out with some "worldly" friends and we went out of town.

  i think some of my closer "friends" at the hall found out from my family and now i am dreading going to the next meeting and hearing their encouring "where were you!?"..

  it fills me with anxiety.

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  Powerful thought notverylikely, I don't have to reply if I don't want to. StAnn, sounds very tempting...

  While re-reading these posts again, making some notes, serenitynows "I was somewhere minding my own business" sounds too amazingly tempting... should I dare? Again they probably already know what I was up to but yeah...

  This has really helped, I'm kind of on a bit of a rollercoaster thinking about it. I think I'll just play it off the cuff, I'm starting to realize it doesn't really matter what I am going to say in the end, won't be around much longer.
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  Anxious about meeting...

  by gutted in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know there are other topics related to this, i started one earlier similar to this but here goes anyway.. so i skipped a couple of meetings of the co visit to hang out with some "worldly" friends and we went out of town.

  i think some of my closer "friends" at the hall found out from my family and now i am dreading going to the next meeting and hearing their encouring "where were you!?"..

  it fills me with anxiety.

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  My skitzo mindset (ha) is already constructing ideas they told an elder or two and they want to talk to me... I really HATE the oppresive feeling of the meetings, have for a long time, even before searching the internet on JWs.