by Marilyn 30 Replies latest jw friends
Mary pointed out that JWs can't be on any team or compete in sports.....
but how about its ok to sit around for hours and watch sports, go to the games, cheer for the team. Whats the difference between being on the team or rooting for the team?? How can the differentiate between the 2? The fans would normally love to be team members.
How dare you guys blaspheme the wbts in this manner. Don't you apostates understand that the god like watchtower works in strange ways! All of these strange things are for your benefit to keep you untarnished by the world and are a gift from Jehovah!
If you can get strange enough no one will want anything to do with you so you can not be tarnished.
SimpleSally:
The reason is that if you're only WATCHING these games, then you're not trying to IMPROVE your life by becoming a sports-hero and trying to get all kinds of people to worship YOU instead of Jehovah!!!
lecithin....
That one does ring a bell. I do remember something being said about that.
Grooming and dress rules over the years
1. Women wearing slacks (still doubtful based on the pictures of women in the paradise)
Consider that men and women basically dressed similarly in Bible times.
2. Open-toed shoes or sandals on women.
3. Nylons must be worn even in the field service on a hot summer day.
4. Dark nail polish and lipstick are forbidden.
5. Women cannot wear multiple rings on each finger or one on each finger. Toe rings/ankle bracelets are what harlots wear.
6. Multiple-pierced ears are forbidden (depending on your husband's status, elders wives are exempt in some congregations and some congregations allow and some don't--in the same circuit)
7. Jean skirts, jumpers and dresses are out.
8. Women's shirts/dresses must pass the bend-over rule. A sister must stand in front of you and see if she can see cleavage when you bend over. If so, out the shirt/dress goes. Dresses must pass the see-through test. If cleavage is visible when you stand up straight, pin that gap, sister!
9. At Bethel, if sisters wear shorts while working, they must come to just above the knee. Brothers must keep their shirts on when working no matter how hot. No logos, pictures, writing, etc. allowed on t-shirts, etc.
how about THE WHOLE JUDICIAL PROCESS?...THE O.M. BOOK ,THE ELDER'S PAY ATTENTION BOOK, the newest arrangement of not always putting things in writing but letting the C.O. tell you
You can't join the YMCA for the use of their fitness equipment and pools yet you can join as a UN NGO to use their library.
Couples can sit together at the meetings only if they are engaged.
You can't attend or have a party, but a get-together is okay.
Women have to show their legs at the mtgs. or in service (i.e., wearing a skirt/dress instead of pants).
1. Women wearing slacks (still doubtful based on the pictures of women in the paradise)
Consider that men and women basically dressed similarly in Bible times.
2. Open-toed shoes or sandals on women.
3. Nylons must be worn even in the field service on a hot summer day.
4. Dark nail polish and lipstick are forbidden.
5. Women cannot wear multiple rings on each finger or one on each finger. Toe rings/ankle bracelets are what harlots wear.
6. Multiple-pierced ears are forbidden (depending on your husband's status, elders wives are exempt in some congregations and some congregations allow and some don't--in the same circuit)
7. Jean skirts, jumpers and dresses are out.
LMAO! If they enforced ANY of these rules in my congergation then there would only be 4 women left. And those 4 are in thier 70's and 80's. Everyone else would be disfelloshiped. HAhahahahah.
I truley feel for the poor women who have to live under that much scrutiny. PUKE
just a quick add on....chicken stock cubes....lecithin....if it didn't say vegetable lecithin it could have had blood in it. I am guessing on this one.And then there was the thing about white bread....once again the lecithin problem...it's an a emulsifier. If it didn't say vegetable ........
This one was truly absurd. It's true that blood contains lecithin, but there are plenty of other, more easily accessible sources for it. Extracting lecithin from blood to use as an emulsifier in food would make about as much sense as extracting iron from blood to build a bridge.
If I remember correctly, this one got so widespread that they had to write a "Questions From Readers" to set the matter straight.
