by pixel 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Looking at this thread by WinstonSmith, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/249671/1/Notes-from-2013-Memorial-talk-Appreciate-What-Christ-Has-Done-for-You
Made me think, how is the Memorial celebrated in different parts of the world? Do they all fall on this year's March 26? Or is it like New Year's Eve, when some get to live in a new year hours before others are stuck in the old one?
I think it should be just after sundown..I remember calculating sundown for some different towns.
Right, but is not the same day for everybody right?
I didn't realize it was on a different day until I was talking to my divorce attorney. She was celebrating Passover the day before memorial. This was about the time i started to really wake up
I think it is! In Australia and New Zeeland they have probably already celebrated memorial. The 26'th starts earlier in those countries than in the US. And when they celebrate in Hawaii it is probably already the 27th here in Europe, but it is still the 26th at Hawaii.
Thanks Dismiss. So, it all becomes a thing of "the day of 26th", not the actual 14 of Nisan. If it were, we would be celebrating it when the sun sets in Jerusalem, not in the part of the world you are at.
We would have some people celebrating the memorial maybe at 3pm or so.
Pixel, that is the point I never understood. They calculate the date by the moon as seen in jerusalem (?), that is the reason they are off a day most of the time. But if you are going to be that picky then you should do it when the sun sets in jerusalem, not in your time zone.
Correct! maninthemiddle. "If you are going to be that picky". They are crazy about the "after sun is down" but even that has it flaws. Crazy.
Also talking about being pickey, I never got a good answer. If nisan 14 lasts until sundown the next day, then why stuff everyone in to one night, why not have a second meeting the next day before sundown? I got some bs argument about the meal being after sundown, but then I brought up the time zone difference and it was already light in Isreal, so aren't we already too late.
Just one more question that gets met with a stone wall.
Good one maninthemiddle! Thanks!
