LOL bikerchic! Too funny.
CHEERS MATE! (an experience with jdubs at a stag)
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Sunspot
All the stuff and nonsense that the WTS spews out as "food from God"......We went to a family wedding about ten years ago, one other JW was there. A REAL strict one who I KNEW would corner me and counsel me on anything and everything that he would see as doing the wrong thing.
IT was being held in a Community Hall, and we were told that a JP would be marrying them. Naturally the JW sat right across from me. We ended up leaving for the hallway during the prayer at the end of the MINISTER'S ceremony, and again when the toast was said, I felt like I was a jumping Jack for cryin' out loud. Not to mention all the odd looks from the other side (bride's family) that didn't know we were JWs......it was such a downer. I HATED always being "different"-----and for WHAT? Because somebody in Medevil times raised a glass for a toast somewhere! Sheesh!
From attending Graduation ceremonies to going to a sports event to birthdays in the workplace to attending non-JW weddings.....we were made to stand out and look stupid!
Way ta go, WTS.
Annie
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bikerchic
LOL bikerchic! Too funny.
Yeah it's been pretty much an attitude my kids have taken with their dad and his religion. Some day he'll catch on and then we won't have fun anymore......sigh. Good thing is that he's given them plenty of examples of do as I say not as I do. LOL
Kate
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AK - Jeff
After the article g00 1/8 27 A Balanced View of Popular Customs, which contained the statement: " it is more important to consider what the custom means to people at the time and in the place where one now lives" (emphasis in original), various JWs wrote to the WTS and asked whether toasting was now allowable. The responses they got back basically said that it was okay. None of those letters was ever published by the WTS, however
.So, could this mean then that the WTS is starting to 'set the table' for a more liberal view of Christmas, Birthdays, ect too? I really doubt it - but just thinking out loud. After all, I do not know a single person who celebrates xmas that thinks he is harkening back to the days of the pagans from which some of the customs are linked.
As for clinking glasses - since the day we faded we do.
Jeff
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upside/down
this cult is a haven for those who can keep the outside of the cup clean... for those who can put on a show when needed.
Wow, another profound "truth".
Thanks, u/d
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M.J.
Y'know up until now I had come across NO information that this was taboo (that word sounds kinda pagan, should I be using it?), yet I had the feeling the WTS was hung up on it. Morons.
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Honesty
I propose a toast to the demise of the WTBTS.
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Euphemism
AK - Jeff wrote: .So, could this mean then that the WTS is starting to 'set the table' for a more liberal view of Christmas, Birthdays, ect too?
There was certainly plenty of 'speculation' when the article came out, but no changes in the last five years.