Juneteenth being celebrated by JWs

by Anony Mous 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Anony Mous

  So today I saw a group of JWs I know, we were sitting down to eat at a public place and I guess they (mom and daughter) were performing at an event with their sports team… for Juneteenth.

  They (the entire team) happened to sit next to us for some fast food and I recognized them and said hi, hoping to make them uncomfortable. They actually said hi and introduced themselves to my family, I’ve seen them before (they go to the same school as one of my kids) and they usually ignore me. I know for a fact they and their family still goes, the family patriarch is an elder etc. They were on their way to doing a demo at the city’s Juneteenth event.
  

  I was completely flabbergasted, these elders and their families, actually celebrating an invented religious holiday, openly, in public. At the same time there is a convention going on less than 5 miles away from them (not their circuit, but still).
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  Listener

  I have never heard of the holiday, I’m not American. It’s to celebrate blacks being freed from slavery.

  This family my becoming less attached to the organisation or have always not followed all the rules.

  Either way, it could be a good sign.
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  Biahi

  I don’t think it’s a religious holiday, but I will say that some witnesses will celebrate ANYTHING they are “allowed” to.🙄
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  SouthCentral

  How is this a religious, invented holiday? Aren't all holidays INVENTED? What is your issue with Juneteenth? Please help me understand..
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  Anony Mous

  @southcentral: it’s a fabricated “religion” that pretends not to be a religion, much like JW, it didn’t naturally evolve, but was created and structured with a specific political goal sometime in the past few decades. I don’t have a problem with people celebrating special events, if they’re grounded in at least some base truth and not structured to allow a supremacy of one group and deny the accomplishments of others.

  @listener: these are not the kind of people that are ‘leaving’ the WTBTS, but it just goes to show the ‘rot’. I would be mortified back in the day if someone ‘caught’ me with a St Patrick’s day slogan t-shirt.