I am Not a Member of the Jehovah's Witness

[Kountzer]

I am Not a Member of the Jehovah's Witness! I am a Seventh Day Adventist christian. If I were a jehovah's witness I would admit to it, straight up.

I bring this up because a co-worker asked yesterday why am I excited about thanksgiving, being I am JW and 'you' don't celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc. How ignorant and bigoted can you get? She is not the first one at work to tell me that. A supervisor told me the same thing once.

Personally i don't have a problem with Jehovah's Witness. They can be a bit too zealous at times when they are passing out their pamphlets and tracts at the corner store that I stop at on my way to work in the mornings. I politely refuse to take them and that's that.

I have no idea what holidays and traditions they keep or don't keep. I've heard this and that from other sunday church members, but they could be wrong. To be honest I really don't care what JWs believe. They are no more in error than a lot of other main stream churches. This is still the USA. We still have religious liberty. They can believe whatever they want. It doesn't bother me.

It is just that I am not a jehovah witness. If I were I would be bold, and up front about it, but I am not one. I am looking forward to a great thanksgiving holiday, and to all the holidays and birthdays that come my way. Who knows? Maybe members of the Jehovah's Witness denomination feel the same way.

[Liz]

I have lots of aunts, uncles and cousins that are JW's. Being confused with one is no biggie for me, I just set them straight--that I'm a member of that "other" cult Adventism*. My Grandfather-in-law would always call me his Hebrew granddaughter. He would introduce me this way. And no amount of trying to set him straight would work, so I just started accepting it and answering to it.

*Don't get your nickers in a bunch--it's a joke.

[Kountzer]

I'm over it now. It's just the idea of someone telling me what I believe, or what holidays I observe. The gall.

[Gail]

It would be nice, though, if they could identify us OR the JWs for what they DO do, instead of what they don't...

[Johann]

You do have a point

[Johann]

Is this where we like to be? Deserved?

[Kountzer]

KOUNTZER

I am a member the the S.D.A. CHURCH and not a Jehovah's Witness either

but I have talk with many of them and this is what they have told me

dgrimm60

Thanks dgrimm60

[Johann]

Some years back a General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Lay Activities director was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness. He made it meaningful to be a Seventh-day Adventist.

- Leave your tracts and pamphlets at home and get acquainted with your neighbors, was his message. He baptized quite a few of them.

[Gail]

[Johann]

Reminds me of what a friend used to say, (In Scandinavia anyone can use the mailboxes unless it has a sign that no unsolicited items are wanted)

- By now we have converted all the mailboxes in town. It's about time we deal with the people who live behind them.

[Neil D]

- By now we have converted all the mailboxes in town. It's about time we deal with the people who live behind them.

[phkrause]

Originally Posted By: Johann

- By now we have converted all the mailboxes in town. It's about time we deal with the people who live behind them.

[Johann]

Are we scared dealing with people about our religion? Isn't it a lot easier giving a few dollars to a featured televangelist who knows some of the tricks of the trade to get a several more dollars out of people who worship his way of picking up some outlandish doctrines, discovering the weaknesses in our leaders, claiming he is the only one in the world who knows the pure doctrines?