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Coz it teaches that life exists on other planets
Grease
Think it was banned in a Watchtower
Thriller
Unsure if it was banned
Harry Potter
Demons
Formula 1 racing
In Watchtower. Shows a lack of respect for life.
Any others?
These movies/songs are banned if you are a JW
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usualusername
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usualusername
Sexual Healing and Me and Mrs Jones
They were not married.....Any to add?
cheers
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usualusername
This song was about rape (apparently)
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ShirleyW
As far as movies go, wasn't anything with an R rating a no-no ?
I was in Junior high School when Me & Mrs Jones came out, and I remember that being a no-no although I bought the record.
Had to hide my Richard Pryor albums
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talesin
Songs
Knock Three Times by Tony Orlando and Dawn
all K*I*S*S & Black Sabbath songs
She's Havin' My Baby by Paul Anka
Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash
Liberace (gay)
My Ding-A-Ling by Chuck Berry
Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles
Movies
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
Hallowe'en
Frank Langella's Dracula
American Gigolo
Rock Hudson movies after the truth came out that he was gay
EDIT: Yes, Shirley, on all the ones you said, and Lenny Bruce!
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Violia
Ghost Busters
Fatal attraction,
saw them both when they came out.
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usualusername
This thread may be turning into movies/songs we shd experience..
Tom and Jerry for violence was mentioned somewhere in print............ lol -
simon17
None of these were "banned". R-rated movies were definitely discouraged heavily, and then I guess there are just random geographical/congregational pet peeves which are certainly not persistent over all of JWs. An example of this is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I don't know a single witness that would bat an eye at that song. Everyone loves the Beatles.
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NewChapter
I know one congregation that had a real problem with O Brother Where Art Thou?
The story is they were on a bus trip coming back from Bethel, and they put the movie into play. An elder turned the video off and scolded everyone because they had just had an upbuilding trip to Bethel and did not need to watch such garbage.
However I also knew an elder's wife that was just crazy about the movie, and would sing all of the songs---including the religious ones. When the Soggy Bottom Boys (I think that's what they called themselves) went on tour singing the songs, she took a big group to see them, including all her children. Lot's of Babylon the Greats songs in that line up.
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