Birthdays are now a matter of conscience????

by sacrebleu 61 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Cicatrix

  Well, that will depend on:

  if the person is a Regular Bible Study who is progressing nicely toward baptism, and who has no known skeletons in the closet that might jump out and cause the congregation or the WTS legal department nightmares in the future, then it might be a conscience matter (if they write quietly to Brooklyn to find out for themselves)

  if the person is a second generation pioneer who has a "Respectable Spiritual Family Legacy" to uphold, then it might be a conscience matter

  if the person is not such a good example, but knows something about one of the members of a Respectful Spiritual Family with which s/he can blackmail them, then it might be a conscience matter

  "conscience matter" is JWspeak for "don't ask, don't tell"
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  2112

  Just a thought, in Job his grown children were killed by Satan when he made the house they were in colapse. Why were they all in the same house? They were celebrating the birthday of one of them. (It said they were there on his day. Else where is is said the 'on his day' meant on the day he was born.) Not to be correcting anyone here but more to the same points. There are three mentions of birthdays, all ending the same way, someone dying and the hands of an evil person. What is interesting about this is that if celebrating birthdays is as bad as they say then why would God promise Job that his children would be resurrected?

  I also don't understand how they could say that celebrating a birthday is worshiping the person. I've never bowed or shown obeisance to any one let alone at their birthday party.