Just been reading about why JWs don’t celebrate birthdays – it’s pretty hilarious.

Have a good one.

Happy Birthday, Dave!

Saving one dog will not change the world, but it will change the world for that one dog. -Unknown

The children in Highfield’s car told police that she was driving north when she turned to them and said: “Do you think this biker is going to get hit? Do you have faith? Are you afraid?” They said she then steered her SUV across San Pablo and struck 55-year-old Cathy Giury riding a bicycle.

I guess she let Jebus take the wheel!

http://www.news4jax.com/news/17160771/detail.html

So… What presents di dyou get?

Seriously though I totally understand why some people don’t like birthdays. I’ve never liked birthdays one bit. It’s like a funeral when you’re alive still: A day for OTHER people to celebrate, at your expense. The difference is, you have to be there! Alive, I mean. Great.

Yes, I think we should pay attention to each other everyday, and not just save it all up for one day a year. I think we do well at that, for the most part, but obviously we could improve how we treat each other everyday.

Birthdays have also fallen under the spell of massive capitalism, like Christmas, Easter and Independence Day. It’s a giant marketing plan where everyone in America is expected to become involved in buying things, usually thing that aren’t really necessary or important to society in general, so that some giant corporations can get a little larger.

Plus exactly who wants to be reminded that they’re another year older, with witnesses present?? Unless you’re under 30, this is not a good thing to most people. It’s great to be alive and to have lived another year, but to slap a number on it, a label if you will, just seems to degrade the whole thing. Then we put that number on a cake somehow, even if we have to cheat in order to get such a high number on there…lol

I can’t believe you’re 42 Dave! You’re so young at heart, but then 42 isn’t old…See? We create a scale for aging because we care so much about these particular numbers. The Earth doesn’t care, nor does the sun, but those two bodies are about the only things that SHOULD care. Nothing else really even notices that another year has happened for us. Certainly not anyone on Mars, or the Borg…:o)Just us.

Of course I love a good party, and I don’t need a special reason to have one. Just being alive is a good reason for starters, imho.

I think we should just change to a four day work week, and consider that a permanent gift to ourselves. Let’s give Hallmark some time off too. lol

Joe Zamecki
Austin