Funny thought JW's have no problem celebrating pre- birthdays, baby showers. Of all the specific laws and commandments in the Bible including the law covenant laws there was no law forbidding birthdays.
Dumb cult.
The ''dreaded'' birthday cake
by RULES & REGULATIONS 49 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Beth Sarim
Really good points by all here about these things.
All get full credit.
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mikeflood
Eventually is gonna be nu-lite, birthdays could be celebrated in a sober way, Christmas too...a good opportunity to preach.
We all know that people run for the hills when they are told, no Christmas or birthdays celebrations...but, don't give them ideas
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was a new boy
as long as the $, the birthday gift was going to cost, is sent to WatchtowerEventually is gonna be nu-lite, birthdays could be celebrated in a sober way,
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WTWizard
If celebrating holidays and birthdays make the beady-eyed monster thing so mad, all the more reason to do them to the hilt (of course, spending within your means and not drink driving). Yes, Christmas is originally a pagan holiday to worship the sun. But, since the sun controls the solar system, what is so wrong with that? They pick and choose what is going to be the most fun, and ban it. This makes people all the more miserable, which serves the beady-eyed monster thing they worship.
And what about the ban on smoking, together with requiring something that is about 20 times worse (and I am assuming a 2 pack a day smoking habit)? Those torture shots are going to result in many health issues. Many of these are nuisances (prostate problems, UTI's, frequent headaches and not feeling well episodes, and so on) that people can go out in field circus anyways, ballyhooing them for serving the beady-eyed monster thing under more adversity. Others are much more serious (type 1 diabetes, cancer, serious heart trouble, strokes, and so on), not to mention getting AIDS directly from those shots (not even HIV, just plain AIDS). More colds and flu, and more serious ones. Hey, at least they are not allowed to smoke.
They need to get their priorities straight. Which of these pagan practices are actually going to cause problems? Celebrating holidays is certainly not going to cause trouble--unless, that is, people drink and drive as part of them or they spend beyond their means and get a whole year of debt to pay for it. As I see it, there is nothing wrong with attending an office event to commemorate a retirement, a birthday, or holiday--certainly you are not going to drink drive to get to and from such or spend more than you can afford. I, for one, will be enjoying whatever sun-worship events we do get at work. And no, I will not be getting that torture shot.
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Listener
"We may be able to ease our workmate’s concerns by expressing how much we appreciate his interest in fellow workers and assuring him that we want to enjoy a pleasant environment at work"
Not engaging in office celebrations doesn't make for a pleasant environment except what the Watchtower really means is that a pleasant environment is where they are not persecuted or ridiculed for their beliefs.
They often encourage JWs to see them as 'worldly people' and separate from them, not even having lunch with them in the lunch room.
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BluesBrother
That was A very typical pic in the WT and one that very many office working dubs will identify with... As for explaining the reasons, most others are not interested, they just understand that ‘ you people don’t ‘ ... The reasons sound pretty flimsy anyway.
At the rate the WTS is going it won’t be too long before they announce that ‘ The Bible does not mention it so we cannot make rules’ ... Not yet though.
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Biahi
Agree, hoser, it creates an “us against them” mentality.
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RULES & REGULATIONS
Nothing like putting fear on little children as to why birthday's should not be celebrated. Caleb's dad explains why Jehovah doesn't like the celebration of birthday's. Caleb will now be indoctrinated not to attend birthday parties and not touch birthday cake and cupcakes.
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RULES & REGULATIONS
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/jehovah-forgives/
Poor Caleb! There is a birthday party in Caleb's class. There is cake and cupcakes. Caleb watches all his classmates eat cupcakes. He tries will all his might not to eat one. He gives into the temptation. He decides to grab a cupcake. His classmates catch him in the act. He feels so bad that his dad has to give him a lecture on why Jehovah forgives him for the cupcake incident. Talk about the Watchtower Society putting fear into a six year old!