Why are anniversaries allowed but not birthdays?

by hyperpen 9 years ago 51 Replies latest 9 years ago watchtower beliefs

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  hyperpen 9 years ago

  The scripture quotes aside, I was always told that we don't celebrate birthdays because that is a celebration of the self, which has no place in Jehovah's organization. Then why celebrate anniversaries? Anniversary celebrations are about the joining of two selves, isn't that twice as selfish?
  

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  neat blue dog 9 years ago

  "Because. So there." - GB

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  scratchme1010 9 years ago

  Indeed. Just because. No logic, no sense.
  

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  dubstepped 9 years ago

  Marriage is God's arrangement. Birth isn't, see Adam and Eve. Why not?

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  Saename 9 years ago

  

  Just stop thinking about it; just let it go, and the problem will disappear. You'll see.

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  ShirleyW 9 years ago

  because they don't know what the F they're doing and just made up their own rules

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  berrygerry 9 years ago

  Because Job's children were commemorating their day of birth, and no where in the Bible do we read of marriage anniversaries ...

  Umm, wait a minute ?
  

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  punkofnice 9 years ago

  Now the spies will report this back to the overfed stuffed pigs back at cult HQ. New light(tm), no nore anniversaries. Give money to the governing overbloated pig body. They need to pay the fines in Loughboro' UK.

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  stuckinarut2 9 years ago

  Yes.... The double standards will do your head in....

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  stuckinarut2 9 years ago

  Why doesn't the GB introduce "baptism anniversary parties" where a witness can celebrate annually the day of their baptism?

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