Fancy dress up parties were banned by Elders after our 2nd one

Witness 007

So I grew up in a small town with lots of Witnesses so being bored we had two fancy dress up parties now some brothers came with swords and fake guns as pirates or cowboys one brother who was a pioneer came dressed as a woman! The Elders smashed us in a talk they gave and these fun parties were cancelled.

moomanchu

No suprise.

Our area (Lehigh Valley, PA) had skating parties Monday nights. They were fun for everyone, old and young people alike. They were great, something where you weren't being forced to ingest Watchtower propaganda, but still be able to see the bros and sisters. I actually met my wife through these parties. Teens started gettting in trouble after the parties.

and that was the end of the skating parties.

dropoffyourkeylee

I think it fair to say that JW children and teens are starved for fun things to do. It is a great failing on the part of the WT to not provide outlets for them, and to squash the things they like to do.

jwleaks

A long time ago in a congregation far, far away I helped organise a dress up party with a slight difference, namely, I had laid down our defence against the elders when they harassed us afterwards.

The theme was “Come dressed as something starting with the letter ‘P’.”

Our defence was that we assumed everyone would come dressed as a Pioneer or a Panda or even a Publisher.

What we did not anticipate among the dressed crowd was:

1 x Priest (a brother)

3 x Prostitutes (3 sisters)

1 x Pimp (a brother being the fleshly brother of two of the above sisters)

1 x Protestant preacher (a brother)

2 x Protestors (2 brothers being apostates with placards)

2 x Punk Rockers (2 brothers)

2 x Punk Rocker Groupies (2 sisters being girlfriends of the above brothers)

1 x Police Officer (sister with handcuffs and a short-short uniform skirt)

1 x Pontus Pilate (a brother in a toga)

2 x Pushers (2 brothers as drug pushers)

3 x Prophets (2 brothers and 1 sister)

1 x Prodigal son (a brother recently reinstated)

And sundry others. No Pandas.

Ironically, no one came dressed as a pioneer or a publisher but we did have one Peddler of the Word of God trying to sell an old Watchtower magazine.

Edit to add: We did have one outrageous sister who came dressed in an old 1970’s-style polyester male suit and wide tie. She identified herself as the Presiding Overseer and spent the evening telling everyone off as an ‘elder’ and slapping all the sisters on the backside.

For those interested: Gold Coast, Australia. Early 1990’s.

WingCommander

@jwleaks: OMG, that "P" party sounds hilarious! I'm sure the Elduhzzzz just LOVED that last outrageous sister.

All of these type of "get-togethers" are strictly "frowned upon" by WT HQ, and have been for decades now.

I remember early 80's, south-central PA congregations used to have annual summer picnics. That all stopped once the WT put out articles and direction demanding they be stopped, as only "theocratic activities" are WT HQ approved. So what "adherents" are left with now, is some big wig having a pool party or BBQ and inviting only the select few privileged from their clique to hang out, and to hell with everyone else not good enough. But oh hey! Those not invited will surely be good enough to hear about it AFTER the fact at the next meeting or field service meet-up to make you feel like shit and a total loser. SOURCE: My life growing up in this hateful, dumbass cult!

Even the Israelites had festivals, new moon, and jubilee celebrations. What do the JW's have? NOTHING! Just the dinner out after The Memorial, and the fake put on shows and after hour parties for the Elite-only at the International Conventions.

This cult is the biggest buzz kill and cock block on the entire planet. Seriously! Even the Amish have more fun. This is why JW youth in the know WISH they were born into the Mormons! Cause at the least then they would have grown up with kid appropriate activities and be able to further their education.

hoser

A little off topic but when I was young un a brother in our congregation used to have wild alcohol fueled jw parties. The unmarried pioneer sisters were the biggest sluts in attendance.

I was only 16 or 17 so was too young to get any action from a 25 year old regular pioneer or maybe I ran and hid. I was probably drunk and passed out and missed out. Lol.

The neighbouring congregation had such a bad reputation for its teen and early twenty’s members that my parents wouldn’t let us associate with them. They were elders kids that could get away with anything. This was 40 years ago. Now they are the elders.

DesirousOfChange

Country Line Dancing was "banned" in our circuit many years ago when it was popular. Seems that too many couples went from line dancing to the "horizontal tango" with each other's wife.