Dear Friends...
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!! (((HUGS)))
OK...so I just responded to another thread and felt it deserved its own. How many times as a JW did you stumble around when you were asked "Why don't you celebrate Thanksgiving??" I was trained to say, " We give thanks everyday, not just once a year". People would always look at me weird and say, "Yeah, we do to". Then I would always feel like crawling into a hole because I knew I wasn't giving any type of sound reasoning why I wasn't celebrating it. And YET......
Every Thanksgiving my whole JW family would get together with our none JW family and my JW grandmother would cook a huge Turkey with all the fixings and us JWs would not refer to it as Thanksgiving..but openly our non JW family would call it that. We knew we were celebrating it, and in private we would say among ourselves.."I don't see what is wrong with Thanksgiving"!!?? However, even though I would celebrate it I would act as if I wouldn't when asked by "wordly" people. What a HYPOCRITE I was!! ANYWAY.......now that I am out I realise that there is NOTING wrong with celebrating Thanksgiving! Its all about CONTROL!!! It is just another way they try to control your average JW to keep them in line and seperate from the "world"! For noe good reason!
OK..so how do you stop your JW family dead in their tracts?? Tell them this:
You ask your JW relative, " What is really wrong with celebrating Thanksgiving anyway??"
The JW will likey reply," We don't give thanks just one day a year, but we are thankful EVERYDAY" (sound familiar??)
You say, "Well we only celebrate Jesus death once a year, does that mean we aren't appreciative or "Thankful" the rest of the year??"
Likely you will then get a big BLANK LOOK from them!!
Then say, "If you use one reasoning for one, you have to apply the same reasoning to the other, they are both celebrations of Thanks!"
Anyhow... Just thought I would share!! Let me know what you think??
Sincerely,
Lady Liberty
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...OUTLAW