who go ONLY to the memorial???

oompa

i was planning on going to a meeting or two with my wife.......maybe one or two a month.....but if i do...... i still really do not want to ever go to another memorial......they have weirded me out for years and most of jw friends know that........but you know once you skip a memorial it is like you are marked for death already....i mean word gets around fast "omg...i just heard oompa did not go to the memorial!"

so how is this gonna fly if i go to a couple of meetings a month, but skip the memorial? and if was gonna try to appease my wife by going to some meetings.......should i just bite the bullet and go to the memorial........and then maybe only do the memorial?......i always thought that was sooo funny that we had a bunch of once a year jw's.........they loved coming and rejecting jesus every year..........oompa

asilentone

It would be best for you to go to the Memorial or your wife will be very unhappy.

shopaholic

but you know once you skip a memorial it is like you are marked for death already

So true but if you are going to go to only one meeting, it should be the memorial.

WTWizard

If you go to one boasting session a month, they are going to continually hound you to go to all of them. Plus, you are going to just about be dragged to the REJECT Jesus Party. Not to mention that it will be plenty for them to hound you into going out in field circus--at first once, then all the time (they are never satisfied with just once).

There is plenty to lose if you go to even one boasting session. Primarily, it will give the hounders a bead on you, setting you up for more hounding calls and requests to go to more boasting sessions. Eventually, they will coerce you out in field circus. There may even be a "study" out of the Washtowel Teach book, but it will not be very long (its purpose will be to get you to start going regularly and get you back in field circus).

Once you are there, they are going to be very suspicious. Once you are inactive once, they are going to take steps to prevent you from going inactive again. If you miss one single boasting session, there will be endless "Missing a boasting session led to your going inactive before, and we don't want that to happen again--so we need you to attend all of them" calls. If you make a stray comment at the boasting session, you are more likely to end up in the back room for a hounding call, possibly a judicial hearing or threat of the same. They will also look at the slightest decrease in field circus, for any reason, as a sign of impending inactivity once again.

Better to just not go.

treadnh2o

Oompa,

I like your idea. I'd skip the memorial if my wife wouldn't freak out. If you skip the memorial but only go to a couple meetings, it will be evident that you are just supporting your wife and they should leave you alone. Go to the memorial and they might think there is hope for you yet.

Good luck.

Tread

Witness 007

Go to the memorial.......to remember why we don't go to meetings anymore!

oompa

i already told one elder that the only way i will ever go to another memorial is i get to bring some salsa for the crackers....and i will take a chair up on stage and sit there eatin the bread w/ salsa......and down the entire bottle of wine.....i mean it is a meal and wt has started making more anointed.......so maybe i am a chosen one!

i may still try an infrequent meeting or two....but i just dont think i can endure another passin fest.............oompa

digderidoo

If you're going to the meetings to please your wife, wouldn't she be upset if you didn't go to the memorial??

Paul

Finally-Free

I'd be willing to go to one memorial in exchange for someone paying off my mortgage.

But only one memorial.

W

Bubblie

There's always so many more at the memorial why not just go to that and blend in to please your wife. Remember, it is a shorter meeting and on a full moon so you can make wonderful comments on the way home about how beautiful the moon is that night. Maybe, on the way to the car you can slip your arm around her and get cozy and look into to her eyes and then at the moon. Hope it isn't raining. Wish you the best. I hated the memorial, too. It was creepy like you said.

Kit

who go ONLY to the memorial???

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