I remember back when I was a kid, how it was explained to me, was that it was supposedly a nationalistic holiday. Really dont understand how that is supposed to be, but thats what I was told....I guess they think it's like the fourth of july, but for pilgrims? Always thrown in was a condescending "well, we are thankful every day, not just that one"....But seriously, not every day then, right, because they are deliberately NOT thankful on thanksgiving, ha ha ha. wtf. But yeah, every jw family I knew including ours got a turkey and had a fake jw thanksgiving anyways, turkey with all the trimmings (yum yum! my dad used to do the cooking that day, and he's a really good cook) ....But at least when and where I grew up, nobody would have it actually on thanksgiving, that was taboo. Some people even claimed that you had to have it after thanksgiving, you werent supposed to have it before (??), while others would have it either before or after. I remember one year my dad wanted to have it on thanksgiving (just because he had off work that day) and my mom threw a fit and said we couldnt do that, it would be evil and worldly and she wouldnt eat any of it if he did that....I was thinking, "hey more for us!" lol but we ended up having it a different day instead. The thing that really irked me was when my dad (who was df'd) would slave over this fabulous feast all day, but then, because the rest of our jw family (aunt/uncle/cousins/grandparents, from my mom's side) arent "supposed" to eat with him, he'd send my mom to take them half the food and then come back and my parents and I would eat together ourselves. Seriously??? You refuse to eat with this man, but you'll gladly scarf down his cooking. Grrr. My dad's so nice though, that he would send them some anyways.

Edited to add: omg I just had a total flashback...I was like 7, maybe, and one night at the book study, after the meeting, the book study conducter's wife started saying that she couldnt figure out what was wrong with thanksgiving, and thought that maybe it was really a "conscience matter" if you celebrate it or not, or should be, and people were like freaking out, like she'd just started chanting to the devil or something...I remember my mom telling me on the way home when I was asking about it, that that was NOT true, and that poor sister so and so was just really tired and under alot of stress and was cracking up and didnt know what she was saying.

Set me on fire if that's your desire. Set me in flames but dont make me change....I know how to be myself.
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