Witness Turkey Dinners

VM44

Here is a question:

How many JWs fix a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day?

I have a hunch that quite a few do.

barry

I think I can safely say no one in Australia we dont know much about thanksgiving here is it something about the Pilgrins and the Indians gettin some tucker together after one year in the colonies

Stephanus

True Barry, it's about the only Yank holiday we don't have some sort of equivalent for.

"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx

Who really cares? When they are available in large quantities and are on sale, more people buy turkeys. I hope more Witnesses eat turkey on thanksgiving than the self-righteous dubs that criticize and complain about those that do.

Path

Gopher

Path,

You're right, it's not a big deal, this JW-eating-holiday-turkeys issue.

However, it does illustrate a point: Lots of loyal dubs (in America) get away with a form of "INDEPENDENT THINKING" by eating their turkeys (perhaps even to the point of excess) today, and doing exactly what the non-JW Americans do.

Why is this form of "independent thinking" tolerated? Probably because it doesn't threaten the functioning and/or financial health of the WT Society.

However, other forms of "independent thinking" (consult 90% of the posts on this discussion board) are NOT tolerated. It just raises the point, WHY is some "independent thinking" okay, and others not? Hmmmmm....

GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Room 215

Gopher, et al...

Your comments are right on the money. Thankfully (excuse the pun) the WT's silly Thanksgiving dictum is easily the most violated, or rather ignored, by American dubdom, save for the inevitable hardasses that excist in every congregation.
As I pointed out in another post, the ban is just another of those endless rules to attract attention, to get people talking about the Witnesses, ``being different for different's sake.''

Most thinking JWs quietly recognize that the observance is innocuous, does far more good than harm by institutionalizing a day of thanks and opportunity to bring familes together--- opportunties which sadly become infrequent-to-rare among JW relatives who have to negotiate through a maze of conflicting meeting and assemby schedules, etc in order to schedule a family sit-down.

AS for the consumption of turkey on Turkey Day, my response is one of two, depending on my mood: I either tell them it's no business of theirs, or that when I was in Bethel we routinely ate fish on Fridays as it was most readily available in the markets then.

normie67

"mmmmmmmmmmmmmturkey............................."

n67

zev

personally i detest the fact that meetings are still held even on holiday.

now i got to go to the meeting with a belly full of my favorite beer.

oh well...its their fault.

-Zev
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Doc_jedd

LOL / Zev I understand completely...............doc_jedd of the stayin home tonight class

OUTLAW

Go to any jw home on or around Thanksgiving and you will witness a turkey dinner!(lol)...OUTLAW