Questions

by cleojones 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  waiting

  Hey y'all,

  In response to Frenchy's "perhaps"....

  Perhaps to a greater extent than you may have realized, many holidays and the customs associated with them have a non-Christian religious background. It is this that makes them objectionable to Jehovah's Witnesses. - WT School Brochure

  The WTS makes no differentiation between non-Christian holidays and customs in print. They do, as Red points out, make lots of distinctions in reality. Most customs related to the wedding, including the honeymoon, veil, bridal showers, etc., are from middle ages or back, having nothing to do with Christian religion.

  Why can a woman have a bridal shower (or 5 of them) and be the COMPLETE CENTER OF ATTENTION (and is a pagan custom) with 5 or 50 people present, but the same woman cannot have a birthday cake with her family and friends?

  Why can a pregnant woman have baby showers and be COMPLETE CENTER OF ATTENTION but the birth of the baby is not to be remembered in celebration because then the child would be the complete center of attention (creature worship, like Mother's Day).

  Just because birthdays are not mentioned in the Bible with early Christians, doesn't mean they didn't happen. Yes, pagans celebrated them - but pagans do a lot of things jw's do. Persons were killed at pagan birthday parties - but people have been killed by distraught exlovers at weddings also. But wedding celebrations are still held.

  So much of this is not logical, not scriptural, not reasonable. I don't understand the WT reasoning on a lot of it - we just accepted it because we were taught that way.

  waiting
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  cleojones

  But how can you just accept something because that is what you have been told? Where is your own thought process or independent research? I want to a Kingdom Hall this past weekend and watching the Watchtower study was really scary. People were, for the most part, just regurgitating exactly what they had read in the Watchtower. Just mindlessly following anything is really scary.
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  waiting

  hey cleo,

  How? The same way scores of Germans followed Hitler. Same as Jews not grasping the horror of Hitler. Same as children who don't leave abusive parents, etc.

  Always the same. Don't understand what we're seeing. Refuse to understand what we're seeing. Too heavily invested into a life style to turn away. Losing families. Living in denial.

  Man, the list just goes on and on. Many reasons not to look. I think the WTS keeps us so busy reading, meetings, service, etc., that we don't read deeply, don't read much of anything but the WTS, and just learn not to question anything.

  But once one does - it's usually too late to go back. Must get a real life and figure out how *worldly* people make friends. So strange.

  Soooooo, you're not a jw? Wise choice.....

  waiting