by oompa 20 Replies latest jw friends
Why not just tell your wife that you have another 'knee surgery' (hi-knee) that is on that day... she always seems to disappear when you do that.
(tongue firmly planted in cheek)
Regards,
Jim TX
P.S. I don't go to those 'memprial' thingos... haven't been in eons. It never made sense to me why one would go to probably the ONE event where they may make everyone drink the kool-aid - Jonestown-style.
I hope you're not going to go in that hawain shirt?? lol
Paul
digderido: If you're going to the meetings to please your wife, wouldn't she be upset if you didn't go to the memorial??
she did not get upset at all last year......my son as kinda dissapointed, but i had a talk with him before as to my issues about the party.....but they were BOTH pissed that none of my elder/friends even called to invite me.......now that got their attention
oh i found this funny.........the last and only meeting i went to was the Sunday meeting AFTER the memorial.........i went to make a statement.....that if i had WANTED to at the stupid party.......i would have been there........i was kinda happyabout it the whole meeting.............oompa
Who only go to the Memorial?
WANKERS!
who go to more meetings than just the Memorial?
the Criminally Insane!
Love
Wobble
I don't go to the memorial because I don't want their -announced to the world- numbers to include me in attendance.
I have other things planned for April 9, 2009 and every First-Full-Moon-After-The-Vernal-Equinox™ in perpetuity and/or forever (whichever comes first).
Having done so, I figure I've saved myself thousands of dollars in new outfits over the course of my lifetime. It's rather morbid, when you think about it, buying new clothes to wear to an annual event that commemorates (dare I say "celebrates"?) a public execution.
I haven't been to a Memorial in over 4 years, but the last time I did go I took my new non-JW wife. She was curious about what a "JW service" was like, so I took her to get a JW experience. My wife's background is Evangelical Christian but she is also open minded, so she was quite curious as to what the celebration of the "most important date of the year" would be like.
Though no one knew me at this hall (so they didn't know I was DF'ed), not one person came up to us to greet or welcome us. That was strike one in her mind...
When she heard the fabulous recorded Kingdom Songs, she almost started laughing at how boring and joyless they were...
As the emblems were passed, she scratched her head at why no one would take the wine or bread to commemorate the Lord's Supper...
As we we left the Hall, I asked her what she thought. She looked at me and said that it was the most joyless, mechanical church service she ever sat through. Her final analysis..."I felt like I just sat through a tax seminar!!"
My wife is an insightful woman
I have no intention of going. 2007 was the first memorial in a long time that I did not have an "assignment" in a long time. I attended with my congregation at the local JW assembly hall (about 10 congos that meet in multiple congo KHs go there to relieve overflow. I missed my first one ever in 2008...a streak I will continue.
I always thought it would be real interesting to go to a KH for the memorial where no one knows me. I would have to go two states away and hope I didnt guess wrong. I know people in a lot of places. I could go in blue jeans and tshirt, day or two growth of beard...but clean and neat. Show up with an invitation that I "found" and just see what happens...see how I am treated.... not admit to being an inactive dub...or having a JW momma...... I wouldnt attempt to partake... that stuff tastes awful...I tried the emblems after a Memorial... not so sacred eating emblems out of a ziploc bag and pouring unfermented wine out of a gallong jug. I have not figured out that last one.
Nah...April 9th is a Thursday....I would miss Survivor.
Snakes ()
ps...finally free:
I'd be willing to go to one memorial in exchange for someone paying off my mortgage. But only one memorial.
So you do have a price. I would skip the Memorial for a Klondike Bar.
I don't think I will ever step foot inside a false religious Kingdumb Hall again... well, maybe for a funeral... only maybe... but definitely not for the Jesus reject party
Last year I was assigned to give the memorial talk....this year I have no intention of attending.
I used to enjoy giving the memorial talk when I believed it was the truth...now the thought of even being there gives me the creeps.
I put up with being a part of it for as long as I could, while I dropped real seeds of truth and tried to help some friends and family to have their awakening. Once my efforts reached the point of diminishing returns, it was time to stop being an elder and to stop attending. I'll never go back.
The Oracle
