LOL Trueblue. I walked right into that one too.
Yesterday was a coworker's birthday. She's an older woman, you might say the grandmother like figure in the department. Every company has some. Another worker approached me and asked, "Misery, I know you don't do birthdays, but did you wish such-n-so a happy birthday?" Ya know, time stopped for a split second in a matrix like way. I thanked the coworker for reminding me, and made my way back to the old birthday girl. The whole time I'm walking back there my brain and heart were in a fierce debate as to whether or not what I'm about to do is appropriate. I'm debating how I can word this without actually saying happy birthday. Should I say, "Congratulations on making it to your 62nd year!", or "how does it feel to be another year older? Glad ya made it and your still with us!" "You cheated death another year! Congratulations!" Eventually common sense prevailed over Fred Franz and Rutherford's lunacy. I got back to the birthday gals' cubicle, and wished her a happy birthday. There's no principle or law in the Bible forbidding me from doing what I did. I don't even view it as a conscience matter now that the matter is over. I view it as a non-issue that should have never been an issue for me or anybody else in this cancer of a rotton religion established with the ideas of sick dispicable old men in Bethel.