How JWs are remembering 9/11

LDH

Just thought you guys would get a kick out of this. My employer (huge corporation) sent an email to everyone in the Fresno office yesterday, letting us know that in the spirit of 09/11, we were permitted to dress casually *if* we wore red, white and blue.

True to style, the JDubs on my floor showed up in .....

purple polyester

brown polyester

LOL. You will not pass "go" --you will not go to Paradise. You will go directly to jail if you even show the slightest compassion for the memory of 3,000+ victims.

I'm so glad I don't worship a God who cares what color clothing I wear anymore.

I was embarrassed for them.

Lisa

True Blue Class

Gopher

I think the JW who wore "purple polyester" compromised. Think about it: what is purple but a mixture of red and blue? Hmmmm...... subtle rebellion against JW rules if you ask me!

Aztec

LOL! That's funny even though I wore dark green and khaki to work today. I forgot to recognize a "special" day. My bad....

It's funny that they would deliberatly defy something. I did it cause I just don't care...big differance!

~Aztec

teejay

>>>> I was embarrassed for them.

Me, too, Lisa. Sad. A lot of people and most JWs think that September 11 is just another day and they don't mind sticking their personal indifference in people's faces, either.

What your post made me think about is all the JW kids whose teachers encouraged their students to wear something red, white and blue this past Thursday and those kids' parents making them wear purple, green, and every other color of the rainbow EXCEPT red, white or blue. Remember being forced to stand out in a bad way like that?

Lived it, baby. Lived it.

Special K

Here we go again

J.W. kids made to feel weird.

special k

LDH

Oh, I remember those days ALL TOO WELL. Once in high school I accidentally wore green on St. Patrick's day, and not only did I feel like a charlatan, the kids were then making fun of me for "participating" in a "worldly holiday" which I had decried the day before.

The smallest things are cracked up to be a life-or-death struggle in the minds of JWs. No wonder we're all such drama queens. Especially Joel. Just kidding, Joel, if you're reading this.

Lisa

Not into the Drama, anymore Class

DanTheMan

FWIW, I'm with the JW's here.

If a corporate leadership sends out a memo stating that people can dress casually provided they wear certain colors that have an obvious symbolic meaning, when you read between the lines aren't they pretty much saying what they (the ORGANIZATION) are expecting people to do?

If this had come down where I had worked, I would have worn regular business clothes instead of the red white and blue too. Because it seems to me like people were being told, in so many words, to conform.

jelly

Dan,

The difference is that when a 'suggestion' comes down from JW cheifs. It's a command. If you choose not to follow the 'suggestion' there will be repercussions. Their is no 'suggestion' in the JW world.

With the large corp, the memo was a true suggestion. If people choose not to follow I doubt there will be any repercussions, or if managment even cared. They just looked like dorks for a day, some JW's hate this but some live for the 'chance to seperate themselves'.

Terry

minimus

JW's just view 9-11 as another day.

LDH

Dan,

If I were still a JW, I would have misconstrued that e-mail, too. In fact, Corporate America is very good at making demands and couching them as "suggestions." This email went out on the late afternoon of 09/10. There was no hidden agenda. There were no multiple reminders. Just a brief email, stating that if people wished to, they could wear casual clothes in red/white/blue to remember the tragedy. There was no great conspiracy, just an opportunity to show that WE AS AMERICANS remember what a tragic day this was for us and the rest of the world.

This is a case in point of people making a mountain out of a molehill, as per my prior email.

Lisa

How JWs are remembering 9/11

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