JWs and the calendar

jstalin

I was in Italy over new year's eve week and I visited the vatican. On the tour, the guide pointed out a monument to Pope Gregory, who invented the gregorian calendar which we use today. That made me think: JWs are so hell-bent on avoiding anything non-biblical, yet they are ok with using the gregorian calendar, which was invented by, *gasp*, a Catholic pope. Any thoughts from anyone?

cabasilas

Back in the 30s, the Watchtower Society started their own Theocratic Calendar. My recollection was it was published in Golden Age and in the next year's Yearbook. It had months like "Ransom," and different names for the days of the week. It was short-lived as Rutherford soon saw it would make the JWs seem too weird and was discarded after a year or so. Don't know if anyone has ever done a webpage on it.

Gretchen956

It was short-lived as Rutherford soon saw it would make the JWs seem too weird and was discarded after a year or so.

JWs too weird??!! Nahhhh no-one thinks that!

lolol

Sherry

Lilycurly

HA!! Never heard of that!lol I'd love to know what all the new names were.lol! Dear ol' Pastor!

VM44

I think the reason that Woodworth's calendar was dropped was that it was not practical as far as day to day activities to be using two different calenders.

The Watchtower still had to interact and conduct business with people on the "outside"

Also, some of the "friends" had started to use the new calendar in their correspondence with The Watchtower, and who knows if they got their dates right on their letters?

So the whole "New Calendar" business was a flop.

During a Bethel meal, Rutherford told Woodworth was an ass for coming up with that Calendar. The Dialogue went something like this:

Rutherford: "Say it yourself that you were an ass for making that Calendar."

Woodworth: "I was an ass"

Rutherford: "I'm tired of hearing you call yourself an ass."

And that was before the others in the Bethel dining area!

--VM44

AlmostAtheist

Somebody posted a copy of that calendar on JWD a month or two ago. I can't find it now. :-(

Dave