New Light on Beards

[Srecko Sostar]

8 minutes ago, George88 said:

Who didn't see your criticism coming? lol!

"However, GB has decided  ....,"

https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/global/2024-Governing-Body-Update-2/

[TrueTomHarley]

1 hour ago, JW Insider said:

Maybe next time, another one will go without the tie

Doesn’t matter. I’m growing one like Rip Van Winkle as we speak. Long enough to sweep the kitchen floor with.

[Srecko Sostar]

48 minutes ago, George88 said:

I acknowledge the recent update, but it did not prevent you and others from expressing criticism and sarcasm. However, if we consider the larger context, it's evident that the dress code is intended for those who scrutinize the attire of other nations. The aim is to balance the overall perception of the situation.

The theme here is "repentance" for those who have been disfellowshipped or have left. However, it does not apply to apostates and those Jehovah's Witnesses who enjoy creating division within their own religion, as it is being done here. Certainly, there are still certain conditions that apply to individuals here.

The expression, "the scene of this world is changing", is certainly the reality of WTJWorg, which is changing the scene of its own dogmatic construction by which it oppresses its own followers. 
"You must not greet an excluded person who comes to KH", was the previous order. As of today, that changes and the instruction instructs JWs to give a welcome, but not "too much of a welcome." lol

[Srecko Sostar]

57 minutes ago, George88 said:

 

 

[Srecko Sostar]

56 minutes ago, George88 said:

 

 

[TrueTomHarley]

6 hours ago, George88 said:

he was wearing a beard at international assemblies where many brothers from that region have been wearing beards for a long time.

He didn’t shave it at the border is the point.

[Pudgy]

I try to see both sides of the issue, and both sides and perspectives, so occasionally I think about how the Elders who over 60 years persecuted the brotherhood about the never-ending issue of beards … I myself being called into “the little back room” / “the red room” (some walking out embarresed to tears, with red eyes) / “room 101 (where Winston Smith was tortured with a cage of rats attached to his face) at least five times that I remember, from Virginia to California,Texas, North Carolina, sometimes several times ….. and how these God fearing men of good conscience must NOW feel for having been agents of unwarranted and continuous tyranny that has divided the Congregations, and literally soured the Truth in tens of thousands of Brothers (and their women, girlfriends and wives … destroying, and I do mean DESTROYING the credibility of the Governing Body, and any valuable principles of righteousness they may have tried to impart.

Whew! THAT was a very long sentence…

When I was a young man, I would on Fridays after work to a bar with fellow employees and the Client, ( who expected us to pick up the tab on our overhead account) and we all got thoroughly plastered. No matter how drunk I got I never forgot … in fact I focused on … that I was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and it was a great protection , always. After everyone else went home I sat there hyperventilating to burn off alcohol, then took a cab home.

But, I am rambling …..

In over 55 years, because of MANY COMMON SENSE issues like “beards” I can truly say as I worked all over the United States and three foreign countries, the Elders were never an encouragement to me, except in Pittsburgh PA, and Lima Peru.

It will take another 50 years I am afraid, and  soon for me it won’t matter anymore.

But I worry about the young Elders that grew up watching this all , and were either willing or unwilling participants in this and suchlike tyrannies, including “shunning” as it has been practiced since the 1960’s.

I suppose I also worry about the possibility that they are oblivious.

[Pudgy]

I think Anna was exactly correct about this !!                                    Norway Flag

 

Remember the hidden message in the propaganda photograph of captured sailors from the U.S.S. Pueblo that slipped past the North Korean military?

Same idea……

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-korean-officials-had-no-idea-what-their-hostages-were-signaling-in-this-photo

 

[Pudgy]

OHHHHHhhhhh

NOooooOoo, 

a downvote from Alphonse … what EVER SHALL I DO? 

Just thinking about it gives me the VAPORS!

( flutters eyelashes rapidly ….)

[Srecko Sostar]

When beards were permitted it was explained that was because the view of those in the world had changed.

So what view has changed in the world so that JWs women can wear slacks? 

 

 

[Srecko Sostar]

JWs, Show Your Fashion Attitude!

lol

[xero]

Like my mom always said ...."small pants fit small behinds"