by A-Team 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
as a JW, what did you think people did on the 4th?
Being a convert at age 28, I knew what worldly people did on the 4th...
As a witness, we would usually cook out, and watch the neighbors doing their thing.... seems from above posts, alot of JWs did that.
Cas
Jerk off
In other words, for the JWs it'a a day like all the rest, and they just keep on with their regular daily activities. W
Did what we always did
Service
Worked around the hall
Home
Worked around home
Studied
Then to bed
Never any fireworks!!
Devils light show
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Surreptitiously watch fireworks and whisper about it to a select few at the next meeting
Gotta love that one......
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We used to cookout and sit in the backyard watching the fireworks from the neighboring communities.
Yep, we did too. Us kids learned early to keep our mouths shut at the hall and around the "friends"
They go to conventions in Toledo and Cleveland Ohio.
I remember as a kid we'd (our family) go down to the park by the river and watch the fireworks. A few times we even brought sparklers! Other stuff was illegal so all you could get were sparklers, those little poppers you threw on the ground, and the snake things that were flaming turd generators.
Maybe if my parents weren't so... liberal... I would've rebelled and not have gone though my pompous righteous stage. Ha, maybe I rebelled by becoming pompous and righteous.
More often than not, there was a Grand Boasting Session in progress during that weekend. We had to go to that.
And, there is field circus. The witlesses treat it as any other day. There is rarely any time to watch the fireworks because the witlesses have to be up early the next morning for street work.
My uncle was in charge of buying the wine and Jewish crackers for memorial so on July 4th, we went upstairs of his house and drank wine, ate bread, and other things and watched the fireworks across town. My grandparents were into it big, too. My grandfather and uncle were elders at the time.
If the 4th is on a meeting night, almost all the JWs at my old Hall run from the KH to the park to watch the fireworks. Hall empties out in 10 minutes.
If it isn't a meeting night , they have get togethers and picnics like everyone else minus the patriotic theme.
This year they had their DC so I have no idea if anyone went. It was so nice to be in a crowd of people and not have to deal with being shunned on my holiday by someone who shouldn't be here.
