Did you do a fake prayer before eating lunch at the assembly, etc????

by asilentone 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  FreudianSlip

  To the inital question: yes I always faked it. I'd usually count to 10.

  ATJ-

  I really didn't give 2 shits about praying for the GB.

  This comment struck me as odd. I never once even thought to pray for the GB. Wow, I was a bad JW..
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  blondie

  Nope and I made sure I wasn't with a group of fake prayers. If I saw one was brewing I left for the restroom.
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  cantleave

  yes
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  blondie

  I can remember the elders started an "encouraging" thing by including specific names of people who had physical ailments in the prayers after the service meeting, but they were very selective. Supposedly they were only supposed to be people most of the congregation knew. So it would some elder's wife, or adult child, etc. But there was this older sister who could not come to the meetings because of severe illness but few knew her so they never included her, or people that weren't in "good standing" which meant they didn't turn in enough time (1 hour was not enough) or attend ALL the meetings (ironic isn't it, ill but expected to attend ALL the meetings).
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  fokyc

  NEVER, I don't fake anything, why bother you are only kidding yourself.

  I have watched others go to great lengths for a 'performance'.
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  blondie

  I'll add that I found it very hypocritical when jws I knew prayed in public at meals that I knew never prayed at home at mealtime. There were a few sincere ones that prayed before every meal with true feeling but few.
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  Mad Sweeney

  What bugs me is when one Dub thinks it's appropriate to pray for everyone at the table out at a restaurant. What kind of tool presumes to be the mediator between my family and God? And talk about drawing attention to himself!

  Praying before a candy bar? Well, those Snickers ARE pretty good stuff.
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  WTWizard

  I would simply pause for a few seconds before eating. Totally fake--especially once I realized that that Almighty Baghead didn't deserve any prayers from me.

  I never even said a prayer before eating in private.
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  Deceived

  I was terribly insincere growing up as a witness obviously because I hated the whole prayer thing. I didn't see the point of it all?? No one answered.

  I was also Extremely Embarrassed whenever we had to do the prayer thing at restaurants and with non believers present. My parents did that all the time in front of my Grandparents or unbelieving visitors. UGH

  Once when I was 16 my cousin who was 19 dropped in to visit us on his way to CFB Trenton (Canadian Forces Base). He had a buddy with him. I was so shy and quite excited with having 2 handsome boys staying overnight in our tiny tiny apt (1 bedroom). My cousin (my dad's sisters son) was NOT into JW stuff but he liked to keep in touch with family. Anyway first thing when they walked in the door we had supper, My Dad did the prayer, it was 10 minutes long I swear with lots of Jehovah this and that. OMG I was mortified and I was watching their reactions and they were embarrassed too. Geez.
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  blondie

  See it isn't that a prayer is said before a meal but only when as a show...and who do the resemble?

  (Matthew

  6:5-6) . . .Also, when YOU pray, YOU must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.