2023 Governing Body Update #8 / BEARDS!!!

[Broseph]

2 hours ago, Pjdriver said:

There was a talk posted on JW.org broadcast,  I think about a week ago of Geoffrey Jackson with no beard. I wonder if that is current?

 https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/StudioTalks/pub-jwb-095_2_VIDEO

That’s from almost a year ago. You may have seen it on the Featured section, where older videos are circulated.

[Hope]

4 hours ago, Mike047 said:

Will any of the GB decide on growing and wearing a beard?  If so who? 

Bro Jackson has a handsome goatee, as seen in a photograph earlier in this thread.

[Hope]

5 hours ago, Pjdriver said:

There was a talk posted on JW.org broadcast,  I think about a week ago of Geoffrey Jackson with no beard. I wonder if that is current?

 https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/StudioTalks/pub-jwb-095_2_VIDEO

It seems that morning worship was from 2018. Those talks are not necessarily from current text considerations. 

[Andrey]

 

 

А new topic appears, WHO IS WHO?!  Who looks like whom?   🤣

Edited January 27 by Andrey

[MullumMiss]

Our CO has a beard.

[Old]

1 hour ago, MullumMiss said:

Our CO has a beard.

So does ours.

[GeordieGirl]

Had the Branch Shepherding visit with brother Stephen Lett yesterday. No beards in evidence by any of the brothers. 

Great programme and talks. 😊

[kejedo]

30 minutes ago, GeordieGirl said:

Had the Branch Shepherding visit with brother Stephen Lett yesterday. No beards in evidence by any of the brothers. 

Now I am visualizing how busy would a beard be on the face of Brother Lett. Please share your favorite part of the visit, so I can refocus. 

 

[truce]

4 minutes ago, kejedo said:

Now I am visualizing how busy would a beard be on the face of Brother Lett. Please share your favorite part of the visit, so I can refocus. 

 

It would go up and down and round and round. 

[Percy]

[kejedo]

As a person who loves words, this has just become my favorite word for the weekend.

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Had the Branch Shepherding visit with brother Stephen Lett yesterday. No beards in evidence by any of the brothers. 
Great programme and talks.

I agree. Great program.
However, I would add some 'fine print'. No beards were seen "on the platform."
You didn't mention all the beards on the Branch Report video clips, especially the LDC report. Lol

Old (Downunder) Tone

[kejedo]

37 minutes ago, kejedo said:

As a person who loves words, this has just become my favorite word for the weekend.

As a person who loves words, this has just become my favorite word for the weekend, outside of our stimulating and ever increasing Bible vocab.

[kejedo]

17 minutes ago, kejedo said:

As a person who loves words, this has just become my favorite word for the weekend, outside of our stimulating and ever increasing Bible vocab.

A dear sister friend of mine is an arctophile. Zythophile and Cerevisaphile are also interesting and quenching. Please forgive me for being OT.

[GeordieGirl]

56 minutes ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

I agree. Great program.
However, I would add some 'fine print'. No beards were seen "on the platform."
You didn't mention all the beards on the Branch Report video clips, especially the LDC report. Lol

Old (Downunder) Tone
 

You are right. I was only thinking of the platform. Yes, there were a number of beards evident in the video clips. 

I observed quite a few in our hall, too. The brothers are having a great time with their facial hair. 😁

[Araujo JW]

Here the president told those in attendance: this program helped answer another question that was being asked: are there bearded brothers at Bethel? Now you know. 

[DancesWithWife]

In the past we have seen worldly men with beards, start to study, as they progressed they shaved their beard and were baptized. Will we see the opposite soon? A clean shaven man, learns the Truth, progresses to baptism with a beard 🤣?

[kejedo]

Our entire meeting was on Zoom, this morning. Upbuilding experience, of course, and new beards appearing. One rather young (to me) MS looks much older with the new addition. Many in our congregation are Wallkill Bethelites. I imagine we will no longer notice beards, soon. 

 

[Parale]

From today's edition - Monday 29 January 2024 - of the UK's Daily Mail newspaper, bottom of page 8.....

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13015933/Hair-yesterday-gone-today-Tory-MPs-shaving-beards-told-turn-voters-ahead-general-election.html

 

[Broseph]

The Bible never said to model ourselves after businessmen and politicians, isn’t a good idea now and arguably never was.

[carlos]

Well, it's not so much to model ourselves after businessmen or politicians, but rather to what is considered respectable and dignified in our community. Of course that changes from country to country and from area to area, and also along time.

[Dustparticle]

2 hours ago, carlos said:

Well, it's not so much to model ourselves after businessmen or politicians, but rather to what is considered respectable and dignified in our community. Of course that changes from country to country and from area to area, and also along time.

That is true, yet we must not forget that our love for Jehovah. That is all it comes down to, beard or not we can love Jehovah.

[Mykyl]

7 weeks in. It’s a bit disheveled but has grey in it. That’s what I wanted.  😊 Mind you it’s almost black when I’m indoors. No idea how that works, chameleon beard perhaps.  
Our roof partly came off in a storm over a week ago so extremely tired dealing with that and trying to stem the ingress, so trimming is the last thing on my mind. 🥱

 

 

Edited January 31 by Mykyl

[Dages]

2 minutes ago, Mykyl said:

7 weeks in. It’s a bit disheveled but has grey in it. That’s what I wanted.  😊 Mind you it’s almost black when I’m indoors. No idea how that works, chameleon beard perhaps.  
Our roof partly came off in a storm over a week ago so extremely tired dealing with that and trying to stem the ingress, so trimming is the last thing on my mind. 🥱

 

 

Very nice look, bro !

[careful]

On 1/23/2024 at 7:24 AM, Mike047 said:

 

Glenn, a number of them look ridiculous, certainly some of the appointed men who seem to be showing a degree of immaturity as a result of this talk.

 

Hopefully it will be a five minute wonder for some of them, then we can get rid of this thread!

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