Thanksgiving...

HowTheBibleWasCreated

Columbus day in the US is Thanksgiving in Canada. Nowpersonally I find this stupid and mornic since the tradion beihind the festival goes back to US ancestry bu so be it... (The US pbserves this a month later)

The tradition is Turkey, Cranberries (Why ? :"P) and Harvest thinga like pumpkins (which will be uses in a few weeks to worship Satan lol)

JWs do not celebrate this BUT they do actually.. In ther store I saw 3-4 JWs I knew buying Turkey.. $30...

Me I work in Poultry proscessig so I got a free turkey... my wife invieted a family... her aunt a JW... and her husband not a JW but a Christian... he belives in Jehiovah... and their daughter... this is fine I like these people...

But are we not acctually celbrating a festival initiated by morons on the East Coast of the USA 400 years ago who could get their brains in their head t farm land... no the native's recused them.. they pariased God when they had harvest.... ... What about the natives?

I don't like this traditions BUT since it is tradition in okay with it...

However my JW wife and her aunt and their family knows not to clebrate this... but we are.

I will pray to Jeblopper for our togetherness ..lol...later.... the Catholic husband likes JWs sadly.

Gregor

I understand it falls on a Thursday this year.

OneEyedJoe

Most of the jws I know have a very Thanksgiving-esque meal with family on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I guess that makes it OK.

Berengaria

Pardon me but could you try that again in English?

rebel8

Many ancient cultures had feast days before the holiday emigrated to the US.

talesin

lol @ Gregor - we celebrate it on a Monday, not Thursday ...... but I think it falls on a Thursday this year in the US of A. *wink wink*

It's a stupid holiday, I agree with you, and annoying that someone decided to adopt any USA holiday.

tal

HowTheBibleWasCreated

It's done... I prayed to Jeblooper for the food (Not really lol)

and the non-witness guy made a toast which I accepoted before anyone could say no.. it was to family and friends.

Actually after dinner with local turkey (from a farm a mile away) and local wine (from a vineyard 1/2 mile away from people I know) I checked the origins of Thanksgiving...

It goes back way futher then the USA in the 1600s... CNN places it on Baffin island but I think this is wishful thinking...

I think harvest festivals are very common in every culture (even the Jews have 'Booths') and this is no different a simple harvest festival to eat the first fresh crops.

HowTheBibleWasCreated

BTW ot to put down and icon but I think of Christopher Culumbus as in the same catagory as Hitler and Nepoleon... Evern worse in ways...

1. He never set out to prove the world round

2. He spread his viruses up and down the New World.

3. He was a big fool in navigation.

4. He was extremly prideful.

5. He hated native peoples. (He was probably the one that first called then 'Indians' His own delusion.)

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GrreatTeacher

At least the Canadians get a long weekend. Americans celebrate on Thursday, smack in the middle of the work week.

talesin

It's not a statutory holiday in Canada - only provincially. Federal agencies and banks recognize it, and unions have it in their contracts, but in some provinces, the average worker doesn't even get the day off with pay. *shrugs* Like I said, it's an American holiday we adopted in the late 50s.

t

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