Did your witness family have a 'Thanksgiving' that wasn't on Thanksgiving? (page 2)

road to nowhere

I forgot. Thursday night meeting. Lots of extra sleepy attendees smelling of rum--surely just a coincidence.

Every country has it's autumn celebration. Does the southern hemisphere have a harvest time festival in April or may?

FedUpJW

We didn't have it on Thanksgiving Thursday but it was always that general time of year. Did yours do that?

Of course we did. The weather was still good enough and predictable enough for relatives/friends to travel some distance. Everyone had a four day weekend so it didn't have to be a lot of time spent for a very short visit. And the food savings were usually phenomenal. Only half-wits would believe that you should reject a certain food, association with family or friends just because the calendar said it was Thanksgiving. If the uber JW's didn't like it I always said to them that they should do everything in their power on THAT day to very visibly prove themselves NOT thankful for anything!. Assholes!

moomanchu

Yup, but not on Thursday

Turkey and all the fixings, but it wasn't because we we were doing a Thanksgiving tradition.

It was because turkey was so available and you could get a good deal on it at that time of year, thats all !!! Plus everyone has off work!!

We also had a "kids party", but not on 25th.

All kind of gifts and dinner, but it wasn't that we were doing a Christmas tradition.

It was because there are all kinds of good deals on toys that time of year, that's all!!l Plus everyone has off work!!

NotFormer

"Every country has it's autumn celebration. Does the southern hemisphere have a harvest time festival in April or may?"

Not really. In Australia and New Zealand we have ANZAC Day on the 25th of April, but it's not a harvest festival; it's more like Veterans Day.

People have tried to get Christmas in July happening, to have the Christmas style festivities at a time of year when the temperature makes sense. (Have you ever tried eating a hot roast dinner in 40°C [104°°F] heat, with a side of high humidity?)

Beth Sarim

In Canada,,, Thanksgiving falls on the 2nd Monday in October..

It seems to fit. Shorter dayys,, cooler weather.

Seems to fit with entering a cooler season. Thanksgiving does.

blondie

Yes, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving...our generation of jws, finally said not doing it any more, hypocritical, our jw parents kept going to make granny happy, not their god evidently.

Sea Breeze

Most (American) JW's have a Thanksgiving dinner, just not on the day as everyone else. In their mind, this makes them superior to others, even though they do the exact same thing. I thought it was VERY hypocritical as a kid, but enjoyed the food and fellowship just the same.

Watchtower ideology flourishes at the intersection of ignorance and pride. It is hard to tell which one is more responsible for blinding so many people.

truthlover123

Yes, ad did the same at xmas.... good times good food and lots of laughs, sorry to say - all gone now

Beth Sarim

The witnesses would have a turkey and all the fixings about a week after new year.

blondie

I remember that Beth Sarim. My family just moved it to the next Saturday (US). I remember people celebrating their birthday 6 months after their real one. One relative got a big turkey from their workplace around Thanksgiving and my jw family used that as an excuse to have a T-day celebration right then, can't waste it right? My non-jw relatives weren't stupid and saw it as hypocrisy. But those jws obviously don't think their god is seeing them or knowing their innermost thoughts as the WTS teaches. As the Israelites said when they were worshiping false gods within the temple proper itself, RNWT "Jehovah has left the land and is not seeing."

Did your witness family have a 'Thanksgiving' that wasn't on Thanksgiving?

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