Name Some Stupid Watchtower Rules or Ideas

Some fire departments have flags on their uniforms.  I know quite a few jw firefighters.  How is that possible?

No national flags, or for that matter, nothing with a national flag on it was allowed,  no matter how tiny it was. 

Cleavage and skirt slits -I'm in heaven here.

then there was the "skirt slit" spirituality indicator....
do i have to explain it to anyone here?

Nope, we had one newly interested person come to the hall with a modest slit in her skirt, the Elders had her study conductor speak with her.  She NEVER returned. 

Good for her

Some fire departments have flags on their uniforms.  I know quite a few jw firefighters.  How is that possible?

I'm not sure Blondie,

All I know is that I had a small decal on my car, and the Elders were insistant that I remove it. They told me I was promoting nationalism.

Maybe things have changed, or my "Eders" were very anal, I opt for the latter.

Cas

Can't eat turkey on Thanksgiving, but the day after is OK

cantleave

Yes, we wear our badges to bed just to remind us that JG is watching

Yes, we wear our badges to bed just to remind us that JG is watching

I had my "Keep on the Watch" Badge tatooed on but then realised that was aginst the rules too (I need Outlaw's Mutley here).

Don't sit in the same seat for every meeting. Doing so shows poor spirituality.

No jeans during assemblies, even to go out for dinner at night.

Don't wear perfume to assembles; it maight trigger allergies.

Can't put your hand around your spouse's waist or shoulder during prayer.

Don't give kids crayons and/or painting books during meetings; they are suppossed to liste and learn (even if they're 1 1/2)

Rule we hated the most.

If the kids acts up at the KH. You MUST take them to the back and beat them or you are not a good example.

You know, I've often wondered what new visitors have thought of this rule???

What did they think we had in the back room, a torture chamber? Whips, stocks, brass knuckles, electric shock terminals. These JW kids always came out of the room with tears and red eyes.

And of course, we told them our children needed and loved this form of torture. "Yes mommy, can I have another?!"

One of my favorite chores at the hall was handling the roving microphones for the WT study and other Q&A parts.  You got to stand up in the aisle while everyone else was seated.  I got to look down many an open blouse in those days...

Sometimes that's the only thing that got me through the meetings. Eventually they took me off microphone duty, and I was never on it again. Maybe I was too obvious about enjoying the cleavage.

W

Never be friends with a worldly man (single or married). All they are after is SEX.....

Hmm...(I guess most of them are gay)

Cantleave, where I live Spanish sisters could have as many earrings as they liked because it was "cultural", same for East Indian women, they can wear nose rings! Scandal on the west coast! If youre white you can get away sometimes with 2 earrings in one ear. They have to be pretty discreet. [I have no resentment, I just dont know why this is so and if other halls have these rules]

I never understood any of that. Also, I knew of pioneers that have gotten well hidden tattoos. My sister was fine with her friend doing this after some initial protest. The first thing that comes out of her mouth when I mention I have a boyfriend? "Oh I hope he isnt dirty and gross with tattoos!"

The dressing to even walk into bethel rules are pretty wow [someone posted scans]. Now I do recall when I visited there I had to travel 5 hours in a skirt, sitting of course. It was uncomfortable at the least, that and I was getting yelled at the whole time because "you cant have a wrinkled skirt in bethel, it isnt up to Jehovah's Standard".

Oh god forbid I have a wrinkle in my skirt from travelling all day in the middle of a very unusually hot summer. Ugh.

"you cant have a wrinkled skirt in bethel, it isnt up to Jehovah's Standard".

I wish he applied to the same standard to my body, he sure felt ok for me to wrinkles in the wrong places -

Bethel rule:

If brother and sister, who are not married together, are in a room alone, the door must be left open.

(But thats logical and reasonable - becouse as soon as they would close the door, they would immediately get involved in fornication...)

Albert

They sure do have a lot of sexual hangups.

Albert E.

The door had to be open so those passing by (usually the GB members) could watch them making out.

Its my theory that is why they have so many articles on masturbation.

At the next GB meeting:

"Did you see them kissing brothers?!!!"

"Someone write up another article on masturbation, while I go take a cold shower"

lol @ Albert. Hey I know some dubs that dated 3-6 years per couple....all with chaperones EVERY TIME. No matter how far one travelled it could not be boy girl in one car, even if one sat in the back seat. It was pretty crazy.

Couple of days ago somebody posted here:

"When I was a JW, I was made to believe that as soon as wordly man and woman get to be alone, some affair gets started immediately... now Iam out and I work hard to get started somethinng ... and nothing is happening..."

Quite true...

Albert

Talks from the platform can only be given using WT approved literature, not from the Bible.  I thought the WT adhered to the Bible as it's authority? So why not just eliminate the WT stuff and use the Bible?  Coz we need someone to interpret it for us, even though interpretations belong to God.

You couldn't be one of the Annointed unless you were over 70 and well thought of by everyone, coz Bro Rutherford said so.  Even though Timothy was 30 years of age and one of the Annointed.  Paul was disliked by many of his "brothers', but still of the Annointed and under 40 when converted.  Explain that one GB.

If you partook at the Memorial and you didn't meet the above criteria, you weren't counted, coz the Elders know better than YHWH and you as to the nature/condition of your relationship/spirituality.

Married or unmarried Sisters had to sit in the back seat of a car if alone with a Married or Single Brother while out in service, coz you know groping will commence otherwise.

Brothers have to wear terribly hot suits in 100+ F weather, yet in other countries they could wear traditional dress.  Being of Scottish descent doesn't mean I could wear a kilt to a convention, although a Japanese Sister could wear a Kimono, coz it's traditional for their culture (saw pics in a WT to prove this point).

Magazines with pictures of the Paradise Earth showed white brothers in a shirt and tie and African Brothers in Traditional dress, both without beards. Yet the evil doer next to Jesus on the Cross, I mean "torture stake" in a robe and sporting a beard.

Counting time shows how much you love YHWH, not how kind you are to others, or helping the widow or the fatherless boy.

You can now take partial blood products, but you cannot contribute to the blood supply.

Interpreting the No Blood rule as you cannot receive blood from yourself or a living donor, although Jesus showed in his explanation of doing good works on the Sabbath that rules can be broken if a life was at stake, as Life is more important than a rule. Afterall, the Sabbath came into being for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the Sabbath.  The Blood rule is the same.  No blood was to be ingested from a DEAD animal, the Bible is mute on the subject of a living one.

Birthdays cannot be celebrated because according to the WT, all recorded Birthdays ended in a death and were only celebrated by Pagans. Actually there were three recorded birthdays.  Jesus' birthday was celebrated as well.  He was brought gold, frankensinse and mirrh, no mention is made of  Mary and Joseph declining these gifts.  The angels also sang at the time of the birth.  Quite the celebration afterall.

Failure to spend all your time in field circus, or to be at 100% efficiency while out in field circus, is stealing the word of God.

The antonym of "mildness" is "cowardice".  Meaning, unless you are foolhardy in field circus and willing to endure hardships and total stagnation and loss of all fulfillment for the misery, you are not mild (when I checked a standard English dictionary, the antonym is actually "harshness").

Can not belong to the YMCA.........

Can't have an organ transplant.....oh wait, that changed, a couple of times........