by new boy 17 Replies latest jw friends
This post comes out every year!
For us it was the closet we ever came to "celebrating a worldly holiday."
Even my Nazis jw mom wanted to do it!
And we DID!
But not on Thursday.........................Friday!
We had turkey just like everyone else.............with all the fixings............and why?...........I asked my mother.........Well because she said "its cheap this time of year"
"God bless us one in all"..............Tiny Tim
NB
Yep, we did that too. I just spoke to my brother, my parents are going over to his house for Thanksgiving. My father called last weekend and said they wouldn't be able to make it cuz they were trying to be really strong in the troof, then he calls back a couple of days later and says they're still coming. Reason they are is my sister is flying in the day before and staying with my brother and then she's going to fly back home the day after Thanksgiving.
I guess that's a good enough reason to partake of satan's Thanksgiving, huh?
Josie
that was a day off for most of the laborers in my family so we 'd often have a family dinner on thanksgiving day.sometimes even turkey.. usually someones employer gave them a turkey or ham or mom bought enough groceries that she got a free one.
Mom always had either turkey or ham on Thanksgiving weekend, and we'd tease her about cooking a Thanksgiving dinner. She always said, "Well everything was on sale, you guys were all coming home, what else would I cook?"
So, yeah, you could say we celebrated Thanksgiving, in a JW sort of way.
No, I figured that I have the day off and I would spend all day in the Field Service! People would sure to be home!
Outaservice
Just kidding! Heck yes, turkey and all the fixins, just like them worldly people.
TUT! TUT!! what a bunch of JWS you lot were Of course I never celebrated it ....Jehovah was watching wasnt he!!!???? I must have been a real dud as a JW..... Oh thank God I am free. Anyway I would have reported you lot to the Wonderful Elders.....
We always had the turkey AFTER thanksgiving!! So as not to stumble anyone!!
I made my turkey the day after Thanksgiving and said the same things; hubby is home, turkey is cheap. It was my "worldly" family that insisted I was observing the holiday even though I did it the following day. But I would insist I wasn't of course.
We had many in my old congregation that did the same thing and some invited other witness families over on Thursday too. They would say there was nothing wrong with giving thanks and the day did not matter. But the whole congregation was counciled one year because some old nosy-bitty who was manic depressive with no hubby and kids in the troof had to complain that she was being stumbled by all the friends having turkey on a "worldly holiday" and that put an end to most people doing it. I still did it but kept it mum.
This year my family is coming over, I am cooking on Thursday and hanging a huge "happy thanksgiving" flag out for my JW elder nieghbors! I know, I am a bad girl. Lilly
Yeah, what's up with that? The most peculiar thing happened... when I "faded" out of tha troof and got married, my Mom and Dad decided that they would come over and visit during Thanksgiving break because my hubby and I had some time off. Well, I had already planned a get together with my hubby's mom, so the bird was going to get roasted, and that was all there was to it. We had a classic Thanksgiving meal... and my dear Mom and Dad were just delighted to be there. It was all so baffling! I just figured that if I was the one doing all the cooking, it was okay ;)
The whole Thanksgiving argument was so weak anyway. Hell, what IS the Thanksgiving argument? I mean, I can guess and fake it, like I did when I had to tell people SOMEthing...
Cheers to all and HAPPY GRATEFUL TOFURKEY DAY!!!!!
Baba.
Yes we did, because turkey was cheaper this time of year.
