New Light on Beards

[JW Insider]

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/StudioFeatured/docid-702023024_1_VIDEO

[JW Insider]

[Pudgy]

WOW!

I suppose in the interest of unity I should have tolerated during my entire adult lifetime, which is almost over, the unrelenting discrimination, ostracism, alienation, by the Elders, over and over and over in “the little back room”, being shunned and rejected by the Congregation brothers and sisters, in EVERY Congregation where I had a beard (… except ONE near Pittsburgh, PA, in 1977-1978), and having been sent home in bitter tears when I showed up for field service at a grocery store parking lot rendezvous for having a beard.

In the interest of unity, I should overlook and forget the 60 continuous, unrelenting years of boneheaded stupidity that made my life defensive and hard, denying me opportunities for service and Christian fellowship, and the life distorting, crippling, crushing loneliness I had to endure, each and every day.

Oops!

Silly me.

[Pudgy]

The reason I endured all that is that this was being multiplied all over the Earth by Brothers everywhere and I could not cave in on this issue.

…. but I look at the price I paid, and it bankrupted me.

[Pudgy]

I am happy the Brotherhood, and my sons, are now free of this tyranny.

It would have helped,  had there been an apology for all the ruined lives.

There was not.

[JW Insider]

One of the two pictures of Brother Lett above is not real. I just told an AI program to add a beard. It might be what Brother Lett would look like if he led by example, as in:  "As you see how their conduct turns out, imitate their face." 

[Pudgy]

groan

what program do you use?

 

[Anna]

5 hours ago, JW Insider said:

My mum and I were trying to imagine some GB members with a beard, and we decided, nah, brother Lett wouldn't suit one, and here, this proved us wrong, it actually really suits him! 

[Anna]

4 hours ago, Pudgy said:

for all the ruined lives

I don't know Pudgy, isn't that being a little over dramatic?

[TrueTomHarley]

5 hours ago, Pudgy said:

…. but I look at the price I paid, and it bankrupted me.

I thought it was 1975 that bankrupted you. You have said that often enough—quitting that fine job in Africa and all.

[xero]

My mother used to say whenever anyone would say "Small things for small minds", "Small pants fit small behinds"

[TrueTomHarley]

2 minutes ago, xero said:

My mother used to say whenever anyone would say "Small things for small minds", "Small pants fit small behinds"

I would have liked to have met your mother.