ANY TAKERS?
HAVE JWS EVER CULTURALLY ACCOMMOATED IN ANY WAY?
by badboy 7 Replies latest jw friends
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White Dove
You mean culturally assemilated? It's against their religion. They can't. Must always be different so gawd can tell them apart from the nations, like the ANCIENT Israelites. Being 3,000 and 4,000 years behind the times makes them more fit for salvation.
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WTWizard
Not when everything you read in the Asleep! magazine as recreation has as its conclusion "There is nothing wrong with [activity] in of itself. However, keep in mind that our time is for field circus."
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LouBelle
Depends what specifically you're talking about. I know in Zulu culture, when someone gets married you have to pay Labola - they can still do that, and they usually slaughter 2 goats - one for the guests and one for the ancestors, they obviously weren't allowed to slaughter the goat for the ancestors.
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Tired of the Hypocrisy
To my knowledge everything is pagan and jw's have to conform to the Watchtower View or suffer it.
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gubberningbody
You mean like conforming to prescriptive grammar rules, spelling and the like?
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BurnTheShips
HAVE JWS EVER CULTURALLY ACCOMMOATED IN ANY WAY?
That is actually a good question.
No they hardly accomodate at all. TIn fact, they are destroyers of culture. Watchtower doesn't even replace the culture it destroy with a culture, it turns life into a vacuum, to be filled with sales meeting attendance, literature sales, and boring reading material. If it doesn't come down from the bOrg, then it is worldly, pagan, and Babylonish and not to be practiced by JWS in any way shape or form. It doesn't get included.
BTS-who is rediscovering culture
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badboy
I am thinking slighty along the syncretinism way