Jehovah's Witnesses are not only modern day Arians, but also modern day Quartodecimans. Every year they celebrate what is essentially the equivalent of Easter on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan. Although the calculations for the date they use seem to be determined by their cult's governing body and not the actual Jewish calendar, albeit it's usually fairly close or the same as the date in the actual Jewish calendar. This year they will be celebrating on April 2. They eat bread and drink wine, their equivalent of the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, on this date every year. But only those believed to be among the 144,000 elect are able to partake in the supper. It is the most important date of the year for Jehovah's Witnesses and is basically the one and only holiday that they celebrate.
>>42175481>144000 exclusive eliteNow I know it's a jew larp. Kys, you goddamn faggots
>modern day AriansArians like the Vandals held pagan holy days and waged war. They were "christians" only because it was the new god locally. They still had their own folk deities.
>>42175481Moon worshippers? April 2 is a full Moon. Normal Easter calculation is the first Friday after the first full Moon that follows the spring equinox. So a Lunar-Solar date.
My father's side are Witnesses. I was raised as one but stopped believing around 13. Still have to pretend around some family, but I don't go to meetings and haven't for a long time.Memorial is just a special more fancy meeting where they focus on thanking Jesus for his sacrifice and pass the wine around. I don't know if they actually drink or eat. From my memory they just pass it around as a kind of "carrying on the tradition" but maybe I'm misremembering because last I went to one I was a child and they didn't want me sipping wine. They don't believe in transubstantiation.Arguably the bigger events are the conventions/assemblies. Various congregations will amass in a big city for Friday-Sunday conventions in big stadiums they rent out. I have fond memories of jumping on the beds in hotels. If you've moved cities and kingdom halls, it's a good opportunity to get together with other witnesses in the state you haven't seen in a while. They put on plays of bible stories, give long boring talks, and do baptisms.>>42176698They believe only 144000 men will be selected by God to serve him in heaven. The rest of people who have been "saved" will be resurrected to live in paradise on earth. >>42177410Only because that's around the time they believe the last supper was. They are very very opposed to "pagan" celebrations. They reject Easter because they see it as a stealth insertion of pagan fertility festivals into christianity by Satan in order to corrupt it, similarly to how they view christmas and halloween and everything else.
Jehovah's Witnesses are retarded ass delusional wiggers
God has no name because God doesnt need one just call him Father he is superior to all other pagan Gods he is simply God and he loves you he is always with you
Very intresting, i currently have a JW GF. We are both pretty much in love but her mom hates me since im catholic. Funny enough her mom married a catholic as well, anyways my GF is very normal besides not celebrating her birthday and other holidays. She does not really follow the religion to heart like other witnesses do. I almost wonder if she wants out eventually, people call them cultists but honestly i feel its an exageration and they seem pretty normal and friendly to me.
>>42179100>people call them cultists but honestly i feel its an exageration and they seem pretty normal and friendly to me.cults so tend to be friendly and try to appear normal. thats how they try to get new members. cult doesn't mean 'nasty, weird and kooky'.that comes later, once you've bought into the cult.
>>42179100They're really not that culty. Some are more strict about who they'll let their kids associate with and whatnot. Mostly just some boomers are the culty ones that try to police family. The excommunication stuff is really for people who want to be in the religion but did something they strongly oppose and they want to enforce their beliefs so they make them sit in the back at meetings and encourage people not to talk with them until they get their act together. This is for stuff like doing drugs or sleeping around. Stuff they don't want "infecting" others. People probably look down on your GF for having a non-jw boyfriend if any of them know. Most likely the girl and mom don't talk about that much with anyone. A lot of people are not super invested in the beliefs and go to meetings for the community of well meaning people that hold each other to account. Sometimes that community is more toxic sometimes it's more welcoming.
>>42179433it just depends how you define 'cult' or 'culty'. JW will definitely cut of contact with anyone who disagrees with teh slightest dogma taught by the organization. there is zero difference of opinion allowed even on little things such as Christ died on a cross or a stake. making peripheral little things like that as important as much more central teachings and rejecting people over them is very much the sign of a cult mentality. freedom is not an option.
>>42179542>JW will definitely cut of contact with anyone who disagrees with teh slightest dogma taught by the organizationEntirely depends on the congregation. If you are constantly arguing with people or trying to convince people against dogma, you will probably not be welcomed. If you just express that you heard so and so argument about X teaching being wrong you might just as likely hear a "be careful who you listen to" lecture and hear nothing else about it. JWs don't tend to debate dogma. How they react to your questioning it will just depend on the individual as well as the congregation. This is not just a typical protestant anything goes, come say hi to jesus so you're saved and then go have fun at burning man sect. JWs hold each other to a high standard because they want to be held to a high standard. I agree it can seem like a cult mentality but these are not like Scientologists harassing people for leaving. They are pretty live and let live IF you have no interest in participating in the religion.
>>42179433and theres always the underlying fact that groups such as the Watchtower are false prophet systems which have repeatedly made predictions about the return of Christ etc, which have turned out to be wrong. That all by itself is a huge red flag that should make seekers of truth treat the teaching of the group to very careful examination.
>>42179574>This is not just a typical protestant anything goes, come say hi to jesus so you're saved and then go have fun at burning man sect.of course you have to immediately leap to such an exaggeration when faced with making distinctions between primary and secondary doctrines. are you one of Jehovahs Witnesses?
>>42179686>when faced with making distinctions between primary and secondary doctrinesYou're just making some arbitrary distinction, and my response was saying that just questioning things is not going to immediately get you ostracized unless you're just in a congregation with crazy people. The claim that >JW will definitely cut of contact with anyone who disagrees with teh slightest dogma taught by the organizationis just not really true most of the time. I explained the motivation behind and purpose of excommunication. You're the one ignoring nuance.>are you one of Jehovahs Witnesses?I'm an ex-JW. >>42177672 is me.
>>42179705>You're just making some arbitrary distinction,no, there you're wrong. believing if Christ died on a cross or a stake is in no way related to salvation or reason to reject someone. JW dont have such a distinction, like most cults, because completely subservience to the Organization (God's representative on earth remember) is the most important thing.> You're the one ignoring nuance.im not. ive seen firsthand that the Watchtower is the one that dislikes nuance or the slightest deviation from their every 'change of tack'. ive been to the the 'memorials' and the conferences and meetings over and over again.
>>42176725They thought jesus was odin. The crucifixion begins with the rooster crow like Ragnarok
>>42175481Is it true that you can sense other Jehovah's Witnesses or is that just larp that worldly people use to help them cope with the futility of their lives?
>>42179788personally i can almost always pick a JW. they all have the same stiff robotic look and an old sort of 'dusty' feel about them. as if they've all been left to sit in an old house for a long time and dust has settled into all their wrinkles.
