What Is The Stupidest Rule You've Encountered As a Witness?

by minimus 90 Replies latest jw friends

  • shamus
    shamus

    LOL! YOu can't put an "X" down, LOL! What are they thinking?//????

    There was a rule about not being able to have a buzz cut, lest ye look like a skinhead. I kept my hair razor-short to piss them off. They didn't like me too much.

  • blondie
    blondie

    No beards on men

    Not scriptural

    Even forced Jesus to go beardless until 1969

  • minimus
    minimus

    If a brother gave a public talk, he HAD to wear a suit. No suit = no talk.......A sister can't tell a brother he was wrong.......Families with young kids should sit in the back of the Hall......No one should make the meetings go overtime UNLESS you are a Circuit Overseer....2 witnesses are needed to establish child abuse charges but 2 witnesses are NOT needed for a wife to obtain a scriptural divorce from her husband!

  • Lonestar13
    Lonestar13

    oooh I just thought of another one...brother giving a talk must wear a white shirt...oh and the brothers handling the emblems at the memorial have to wear DARK (preferably black or navy blue) suit. one year a brother wore a dark plum color suit and was "spoken to"

  • minimus
    minimus

    I believe some congregations made up their own regional rules about grooming and dress. That's why some people would leave their congregation and go to the nearest Hall that was "less strict".

  • ikhandi
    ikhandi
    I believe some congregations made up their own regional rules about grooming and dress. That's why some people would leave their congregation and go to the nearest Hall that was "less strict".

    So true Min I found this out real soon when I was pulled aside by an older sister to tell me I was dressed inappropriately. I was told my skirt was too short. In actuality it wasn't, because it was hitting my knees. Funny I was never told this when I would visit the sister cong. and would find young sisters wearing all sorts of worldy dress. This post reminds how wacked out jws really are.

  • VM44
    VM44

    Public Talk Rule Enforced By Some Congregations:

    You MUST NOT use the GREEN New World Translation when giving a public talk! Only use the black covered editions!

    --VM44

    KERMIT, who would not be allowed to give a talk wearing THAT shirt!

    IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
    (Lyrics : Joe Raposo)
    (sung by Kermit)


    It's not that easy bein' green;
    Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
    When I think it could be nicer being red, or
    yellow or gold-
    or something much more colorful like that.

    It's not easy bein' green.
    It seems you blend in with so many other
    ordinary things.
    And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
    not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-
    or stars in the sky.

    But green's the color of Spring.
    And green can be cool and friendly-like.
    And green can be big like an ocean, or important
    like a mountain, or tall like a tree.

    When green is all there is to be
    It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
    Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine,
    it's beautiful!
    And I think it's what I want to be.

  • LukeN
    LukeN

    boy and a girl not being in same room together alone and

    kissing is part of fornication

  • fearnotruth22
    fearnotruth22

    Prior to baptism a person could break every rule and nothing is held against a person, but slip once after baptiosm and it stays with you perpetually.

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32

    Can't have the radio on while driving out in service.

    Can't sit with a member of the opposite sex at the KH unless you're engaged.

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