I got an invite too!

by mrsjones5 7 Replies latest jw experiences

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  mrsjones5

  Ok, I'm driving down the road today with the hubby from our favorite bookstore, trying to get home so I can take my daughter to her scout meeting and I get a buzz in my ear from my cell from my father (I have Bluetooth ). "Hello Josette", says my father in my ear, "How are you?" Now my father just doesn't call me out of the blue to hear my voice, he usually has a reason and he got down to it pretty quick. "I'd like to extend to you an invitation to the Memorial", he says. "Good grief ",I think to myself, "Here we go." So I say that I have to work that night and my dad asks when to which I reply at 10pm. Ha, he's got me and comes back with the Memorial starts at sundown maybe a good three hours before my shift starts so I should be able to go. I firmly state that I don't think I would be going but thanks for the invite. Dad graciously accepts the decline, says goodbye and hands the phone to my mother.

  Whew!

  My hubby, the nut that he is, asks if my dad wanted me to go to California for the Memorial. I called my brother and asked if he had gotten the same invite and he also asked if Dad wanted me to come to California for the Memorial. I'm related to comic wannabees.

  Josie
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  mrsjones5

  Oh I forgot to add when my hubby asked what my father wanted I told him that Dad invited me to an Uncommunion - passing around the crackers and wine and just looking at it.
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  zeroday

  Accept and go and partake of the bread and wine...then see if he ever asks you again...
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  Casper

  Oh I forgot to add when my hubby asked what my father wanted I told him that Dad invited me to an Uncommunion - passing around the crackers and wine and just looking at it.

  LOLOL.... Love that line...

  Glad your situation went well........I still haven't been invited.... I feel so left out.....(again).......

  Cas
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  ShirleyW

  I remember when my father totally allowed me to not attend any more meetings, of course as soon as they got home from the memorial my mom would say "oh, we had 550 ( fill in your own exorbitant number) tonight, when I started asking where are these people for the rest of the year, meaning you never see them at the "Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday. etc. meetings, I see that I finally scored a question that even a JW minded person couldn't come up with a legible (sp?)(as in BS filled) answer and she AMAZINGLY never invited me again.
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  R.Crusoe

  Is this invite thing a new idea coz one dropped in my door that aint been here b4?
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  brunnhilde

  Ack, I got one too, and the sad thing was I think my dad was more uncomfortable asking me than I was saying (very firmly) thank you but NO. I know it's partly brainwashing and partly because they genuinely think it's showing love, which come to think of it is brainwashing, so it's ALL about brainwashing, but I am gonna lay me down some boundaries. I don't WANT to be invited. I know damn well and good when the Memorial is and even if I don't, I know exactly who to ask. Do NOT drag me into your little membership drive so you can brag about how big your attendance was - it's like frat boys comparing their, ahem, well, you see my point!

  brunn
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  WTWizard

  I only got a verbal one (so far), via a message on my answering machine. I never returned it, and I have no intention of going to that REJECT Jesus party. And they have until 4 PM to give me my waste of paper (and I will shred it and still not go).

  If I want to go to a Black Sabbath, I will simply put one of their CDs in my CD player or computer and play it there.