by lepermessiah 35 Replies latest jw friends
leper......
You brought back a memory of trying to eplain to a RV who I invited to the funeral service trying to explain it all. He wasn't getting it, so I told him. "Whatever you do, don't partake! Just pass it along."
During the service, he feigned to drink the wine, driving me nuts, then he chuckled. He thought it was silly. I almost grabbed his hand to stop him.
At the time I thought, "How can someone make fun at such solemn occassion?" Now, I sort of see his view.
Now that I think about it, yes I was embarrassed to tell others about the proceedings. Which is probably why nobody ever came at my invitation....
I remember "explaining" this to a young man and he said, "This is something thought up by a White guy, right?"
DAMN!!! You don't know HOW many friends/family have clowned me about how JW's were a 'white' religion...LOL!!! Actually even though i was DF'd last yr, i went to the Memorial and also took friends of mine. We spent the entire time TALKING. Well, actually, we laughed through most of it...but it was at all her questions about the Memorial. That made me realize that I really wasn't there for the 'right' reasons and didn't need to go back.
For the record, I'm NOT going tonight either. This here black chick has things to DO!
"How can someone make fun at such solemn occassion?"
That really touches on one of my most embarassing things about JW memorial - how creepy the mood was. Not a celebration (as they call it) at all - just as bad as a funeral service.
I remember back in the 1970s some conductors would take it on themselves to do a little banter during the passing of the emblems to sort of take the chill off, but this got stopped by our current Circuit Overseer. So we just sat there in total silence while the emblems were creepily passed around and everyone was practically afraid to even touch them, let alone eat or drink it.
I had to wonder even back then what the whole point was of passing them around - couldn't they just call anyone who wanted to partake up to the front like catholics do? I think this is (maybe unconsiencely) designed to keep the rank and file in AWE of the proceedings at the grand power of the FDS/Annointed Remnant.
Very creepy feeling about this thing indeed.
I used to think it was quite an embarrassing ritual and always felt the people who attended for the first time must have found it quite bizarre.
Bare-Assed is right!! Stoopid shit.
For the record, I'm NOT going tonight either. This here black chick has things to DO!
Hear, Hear!
Girlie said she's going because she promised her parents she would.
Sylvia
Snowbird - thought up by a white guy?
My brother explaining to me about the JW religion when I was studying said they were a Black Muslim Religion. I believed him because all the JW's I knew were black and they wore white shirts and ties like the muslim movement did in the 70's.
I had just read Cleavers 'Soul on Ice' and thought it would be cool to check them out. lol
Quirky!!!
Stop that cussin'!
Sylvia
Why you put me on here like that, Sylvia? lol
The messed up part is that I could have gone to a highly acclaimed opera performance tonight (what better way to spend a Tuesday evening?). However, my friend told me the wrong date and had me thinking it was tomorrow night instead of tonight and since I have already promised my parents that we will be going as a "family" I turned it down.
This will definitely be the last memorial attendance.
