Christmas accident

startingover

I think this guy not only lost his legs but he probably got df'd too. What do you think? The date was 1965, probably from a Mpls newspaper

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AWAKE&WATCHING

You are probably right about the disfellowshipping.

It wasn't bad enough that Jehovah punished him by cutting off his legs.

I can hear the tongues wagging at the hall.

What a shame. Poor guy was probably just walking by and stopped to help the doc.

AWAKE&WATCHING

You are probably right about the disfellowshipping.

It wasn't bad enough that Jehovah punished him by cutting off his legs.

I can hear the tongues wagging at the hall.

What a shame. Poor guy was probably just walking by and stopped to help the doc.

I was trying to think of scenarios where this could have happened. I can't imagine any JW that I have ever known being involved with a christmas tree whatsoever, even if he was just helping this guy. Can anyone else?

misanthropic

Maybe he worked at the place and was helping the person who purcheased the tree load it onto their car? Either way I bet Christmas isn't a fond memory for him, poor guy.

startingover

Isn't touching a christmas tree about the same as touching a copy of "Crisis of Conscience"?

Witness 007

Great stuff! He's lucky to be alive, stupid blood doctrine! I bet he had to move states to live this down.

DazedAndConfused

I don't remember the dates of when the jw's started to back away from Christmas. Could it be this was within the "we can celebrate Christmas" era?

Gopher

Hey Dazed:

The WTS stopped its members from celebrating Christmas back in the 1920's. This happened in 1965.

To the poster who said Ken Berger had to move several states away to live this down:

I had a few friends in the St. Louis Park congregation, which is just west of the city of Minneapolis. I never heard this name the whole time I was a JW in the area. (Of course I was only 4 in 1965, but still he'd have been around in the 70's or 80's if he stayed there.)

WTWizard

This is quite odd. First, any Witless who is faithful enough to the religion to refuse a blood transfusion on the grounds of being a Witless would likely have nothing to do with Christmas. I remember when I was in. Anything to do with Christmas was BAD. You so much as steady a Christmas tree to help someone load it into a trunk, you are helping that person worship the sun and thus aiding and abetting the worshiping of the sun. To the best of my knowledge, the only exceptions would be a delivery person like UPS that has to deliver a Christmas tree upstairs as part of his job.

This also strikes me as odd in that the Witless was associating with a worldly person by helping him put a "sun-worship" tree in a trunk. Witlesses are not supposed to be associating with worldly people, let alone helping them worship the sun. They are supposed to be out in field circus "saving lives" instead. I bet Brother Hounder would have had a stroke that (1) he was helping a worldly person, (2) he was not in field circus, and (3) it was all about worshiping the sun. Hey, at least he didn't take the blood.

Of course they might have been more lenient about worldly association before they started cracking down. There was a crackdown about 1966 when they started pushing 1975; there is another even worse crackdown in progress even now. They might not have been so dogmatic about helping a worldly person with celebrating a holiday (as long as they don't directly participate in it, like helping set it up and decorating it) back in 1965 as they are today. This shows how far this cult has come, and where it's going. For sure, not something I would be interested in being recaptured in or walking back into.

"Shame on you if you fool me once. Shame on ME if you fool me twice."

Christmas accident

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