It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month we know today as the honeymoon.
honeymoons are pagan! :O
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drwtsn32
Ah, even more hypocrisy in the watchtower organization.
And why are wedding anniversaries ok but not birthdays? Bringing too much attention to yourself? That is the lamest excuse I have ever heard. Any celebration for a person will bring them attention. Wedding anniversaries are celebrating the marriage arrangement that god instituted? Well didn't god also institute the BIRTH arrangement?
As a JW I always hated trying to explain why we didn't celebrate birthdays. None of the WTS explanations convinced me so how could I even try to convince someone else.
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DJ
Honeymoons, wedding rings, probably toilet paper too! I remember being taught that we should not toast a drink because it was pagan but they have since gotten 'new light' and it's ok now. Their logic for the new light is what freaked me out...the wt claimed that because we don't know or believe the pagan reasons behind clinking glasses while toasting that it didn't matter anymore. HUH? That is what I was trying to tell them since I was 12.....I remember saying to my mom that we don't honor pagans so why do they keep telling us about all these pagan things? Doesn't God know this stuff too? She always just smiled at me.
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MegaDude
Good point, Maverick. But there actually was a move to change the pagan calendar to one more suitable for Jehovah's Witnesses. This included changing the names of the days and the months. Rutherford nixed the idea but you can see the proposed nutty calendar in Jim Penton's book "Apocalypse Delayed."
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NeonMadman
I am surpised the J-dud Masters don't go back to the jewish calendar, ours is pagan.
Hmmm...do you suppose it would be all right to celebrate your birthday if you calculated it according to the Jewish lunar calendar?