by Robert7 19 Replies latest jw friends
As a born-in child it was sorta special only because of what we got to do afterwards - dinner at a nice resturant or ice cream at Farrell's ice cream parlor. Sometimes there would even be a casual potluck gathering. But as I got older most times it was just the memorial and then home...big whoop.
Josie
I went to a couple of Memorials.
Nobody knew me....I just dropped in.
I was not early and I think I was the last one in (at the second time.)
Some people asked me questions like who invited me. (Nobody)
One even briefed me about I am not supposed to drink.
I think they were a bit nervous that a new one came unknown and unescorted.
The thing I remember most was the Easter hats....fancy stuff.
I thought the non-drinking was different and figured it had some twisted meaning but couldn't put my finger on it.
To be honest, for most of my time in, yes. Then I noticed it was more about why people there should NOT PARTICIPATE... a long explanation about why YOU should NOT take wine or bread...
robert7: but it just felt like another meeting.
what the fluck are you talkin bout!!??.........this freak show of a meeting has creaped me out for years....like another meeting???.....hell the parking attendants park us all the way at the end of the lot...the lot holds 200 cars and we have 60 pubs!!!.......so the entire lot is half full fifty spaces away from the front door!....i gotta take a picture.....but oops...ours is combined this year at the hilton....so at least we have a bar right next door.....
rob....the silence of the passin....the FDS being mentioned often....the way they try to get you too feel over his death (nbd imo....so it hurt a bit...not like 7 years in the hanoi hilton...an geeze big sacrifice...he is gone like 30 hours).....and sooo stoopid passing for NO REASON....you pass food to eat it..."please pass the buttah....thank you...then you eat it not push it afrikkinway)......
this meeting is a creapy freakshow....to me rob...NUTTIN like regular min--freakshow meetings..........oompa
I always felt it was weird,and would NEVER invite interested people to come to it,I thought they would find it Super -weird.
I also thought it was dis-respectfull to Jesus to go out for a Beer afterwards,yet every other meeting I was first in the Pub (and last out!)
love
Wobble
the parking attendants
LOL! It used to kill me that they needed 10 brothers to help us PARK! We're not stupid!
Oh but as far as the brothers are concerns the rank and file sheep are stupid...baaaaaa!
ours is combined this year at the hilton....so at least we have a bar right next door.....
That is hilarious...I wish I was going to your Memorial, we could sneak out for a real drink while they're passing around wine and not drinking it
Which reminds me of the last JW wedding I went to. No alcohol at the reception but it was held in a ballroom in a nice hotel. I snuck out and went to the lobby bar and got a drink and brought it back in. When others saw I had a drink, a line longer than one at the sister's bathroom at the convention formed down at the bar.
The thing I remember most was the Easter hats....fancy stuff.
EASTER HAT? now that is some funny shit.
I do remember it was special at our house other than assemblies, this was one of the rare times we got new dresses.
I remember one man partaking, so I'd always try to get a seat where I could see him. Later in my teenage years, he just stopped coming to the meetings all together. I still wonder what happened to him from time to time.
lisa
It was a complete waste of time after the first time. I dreaded it because the Kingdumb Hell would be packed. Though I did not drive, it was a mess of confusion when you have people directing you to park in 20 different directions at once (as if one attendant wasn't enough). You find a good seat, only to have the hounders move you around.
Then the boring 45 minute talk. All the same crap about who is supposed to partake (no one). Then, they pass the plate of stale crackers and a glass of spoiled grape juice, and call that a "celebration". About the only things that could have made it special would have been for the bottle to end up on the floor in a million pieces before they opened it, and having a huge mess on the floor (or having the whole thing get snowed out).
