Beards and dress clothes...

White washed graves full of stinking and rotting bones!  What a bunch of religious whores!

In Isaiah 53 the suffering servant:

 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
       nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Obviously no fine clothing, no latest haircut, no clean cut shave, no GQ look.

The WTS is so full of crap!  

I think the JW dress code is a product of Brooklyn Heights and lower Manhattan.  The GB, writing staff and Bethel family see bankers in lower Manhattan going to work in a full suit (probably the only people in the world that still work in suits- except for lawyers when they're in court).  So they think that suits are what respectable people wear to work.

Beards are for hippies and college students (GB is terrified of the village, soho, NYU any area where there are free-thinking hippy homo types- their words, not mine)

If Bethel was in Montana, or Florida, or South America or anywhere else, I have a feeling that the dress code would be different.

Side note- Have you ever noticed that the pics in the magazines seem to never show a woman wearing pants (and especially never wearing jeans)  You will see women working in gardens, cleaning houses, etc but wearing a dress..

What a victorian bunch.

Last night in our Hall an elder referenced a verse in Leviticus on how the priests were to wear certain outfits.  He then made the application that this shows that Jehovah cares about what we wear.  he said another local church had a sign 'come as you are - god doesn't mind', and that was obviously wrong because of this scripture in Leviticus about what priests were to wear.  i wanted to stand up screaming - can you misapply scriputure any more?

Morph

I haven't been to a meeting in 4 months, so imagine the surprise on the face of the elder who saw me this morning. I work at a hospital, and the aforementioned elder was bringing his wife in for a procedure, and had decided to go to our cafeteria for breakfast. When he first saw me his eyes got real big and I saw him say something to her, then she looks over, and her eyes get big as well. I wave to these two big-eyed visitors and sit down to eat my breakfast. Sure enough, here he comes, and don't get me wrong, I actually like this guy a lot. He's always been the one brother in the cong. that I could always stand to be around, so I didn't mind talking to him, except for the fact that I'm 3 weeks into a heavy beard-growing session. Even though he didn't say anything, it was obvious that he couldn't keep his eyes off of it. I kinda feel sorry for the poor dumb bastard cause he can't grow one.

sooner7nc

Yes it was stated as being conduct unbecoming of a Christian

Since Jesus wore a beard he was therefore unchristian

The WTS is in reality a company and they want their employees/or slaves to dress appealing to the public.

Funny when think that God created man to have beards but the WTS says it is wrong and beneficial to shave it off ........ummmmm

The business of religion continues with the desire in men who wants its power.