by M.J. 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The standard objection I always heard was "The world was celebrating". But......, you can buy a Turkey, (cause they're on sale), and have everyone over, (because everyone is on vacation) but do it on Friday. Gravy, stuffing and cranberries are ok too, along with pumpkin pie and whipped cream.
This was the standard through 19 hundred and 60, 70, 80, .....after that ....started my own dinners on Thursday. Turkey is on sale dont cha know!!!!
r.
An addendum:
Jw's do not celebrate holidays because of their pagan origins.
Here's a few things JW's allow that also have pagan origins (according to what their definition of pagan is: nothing that isn't in the Bible)
At weddings the Bride wears a white wedding dress denoting her purity (named after Bride, a Scottish pagan deity, akin to Persephone) who wore white and was the eternal virgin in Celtic Mythology. Also said to be other side of Caiileach, the Goddess of Winter Storms, who Scotland is named after. The original name of Scotland was Caledonia, or Land Given by Cailleach, who was seen as a Crone and bringer of Winter and Death.
There are other reason for the Bride's acroutrements in different cultures.
Wedding Bands
Further reading can be found here:
You know full well they celebrate Thanksgiving! they have their non Thanksgiving turkey, friends and family, maybe even a football game or two, drinks, pie, the whole nine yards! but as long as they don't call it Thanksgiving all is well, they can hold their self righteous heads high while looking down their noses at all us walking corpses. If they are diehards they may attempt going in fs, tsk-tsking us worldlies and coveting our homes while deciding which one of our homes will be theirs in the 'new system' and then have their non Thanksgiving feast. damn hypocrites.
Also, Witnesses should never say 'Sunday' or 'Monday' because they are derived from the sun's day and the moon's day. They should stay at home reading the Revelation book instead so as not to recognize or have a part in false worship...
Isn't the thinking about Thanksgiving adsurd?
zarco
Sometimes the hyproisy over holdays is nauseating, for instance knew one elder whose family had turkey all the fixing etc on Xmas eve and they even exchanged gifts that day also, but they swore they weren't celectrating Xmas.
the Same with Thanksgiving, nothing wrong with it except the GB don't want us to participate, they don't want dubs to have any fun or celebratory celebration they themselves haven't sanctioned.
The JWs leaders use expanded ideas for what Biblical "worldliness" is, beyond
not believing in God and being unethical, for the "only rule makers of a literal
144,000" stance (for playing prophet). Since there's no end to what in the
world that expanded version could be imagined as meaning if you include govern-
ment involvement and the things of other kinds of worship (some worship nature--
that's everything, and hard to avoid), their effort is to define their exclu-
siveness by making distinctive extra-Biblical rules about which other things are
too worldly and which other things aren't.
http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklyn5.htm
The validity of the rules bank on the validity of the JWs leaders' claim of
their exclusive right to make rules, which is meant to be defined by the validi-
ty of the rules.
Jehovah`s Witness`s..
Don`t Celebrate ThanksGiving..
Because..
At the very first ThanksGiving..
"John the Turkey"..
Had his Head Cut Off!
Then..
They ate him!!..
..................... ...OUTLAW
Thanks everyone! Very thoughtful and informative responses.
My ex-JW family-in-laws had no problem going to a "worldly" relatives house during Thanksgiving to eat. Their excuse: "We're just visiting family."
The nice thing about being a JW is that you can make your own loop-holes whenever you want and feel good about it.
It's kind of pathetic when you consider the mental hoops they make themselves jump through just so they can eat a bit of turkey at a time of year when you can buy them cheap.
W
