Well Paul, I had not heard the one about evil kings celebrating birthdays vis a vis birthdays are bad, but I have had a couple of students in my classes who are JW. They actually have a pamphlet to give to teachers of public schools on having a JW child in a classroom. The reason listed there is that they only celebrate Jehovah/Jesus--but not at Christmas. It is supposed to be an all-the-time thing. The young man I have right now will stand for the pledge, but will not say it. He looks at something else while he is standing there. One gal was in my g/t classes for 3 years, and any party the kids wanted to have, she could not participate in. We made turkey cookies once for Thanksgiving, and she, instead, made a brown and orange flower. When she was in 6th grade, her mother wouldn't let her even stay in my LA class as we read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"--simply because it had the word Christmas in the title. Her parents lavished gifts on her all the time, but she was so screwed up in the head, they finally had to send her to private school. She was in counseling most of her middle school years. She wanted so bad to be a part of the "norm". I always felt sorry for her. Still do. On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:38:37 -0500 Paul Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:52:13 -0500 Stacy Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > Hi. This is something I wasn't taught by the missionaries. I > guess > > they > > didn't feel it was necessary to mention it. I'm curious why the > > Jehovah's > > Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays but we feel it is okay. > > Apparently > > they claim they have a Biblical reason not to do so. Yet we > > celebrate > > them. I noticed this because the latest news always says when > > President > > Hinckley or Thomas S. Monson, etc., celebrate their birthdays. > I'm > > really > > curious about justifications or the lack of for celebrations of > > birthdays. > > > > Stacy. > > > Two fold. Accounts of birthday celebrations in the Bible are Pharoah > & > Harod and since they were wicked-- birthdays are bad! > > Also, there is a Bible verse that talks about how we should only > honor > God. Birthdays are bad because they honor people when all honor > should > only go to God. > > Isn't that just stupid? > > Paul O > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //// > > >
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