A couple of quick strange Memorial stories.
The elder giving the talk one year went astray and talked about the comet, Hale Bop possibly being a celestial sign or some nonsense like that. He spent a good ten minutes on this. It put the crowd into silence, although he was a great speaker.
An elder from my congregation told the audience during his Memorial talk about the plagues on Egypt and ended with the firstborn of Egypt dying. He said that Moses confronted Pharoah and said that Pharoah's own acts decided for Jehovah what to do to Egypt. That's when I recognized that he wasn't using his Bible or WT literature to come up with his plague information. The guy was using the movie, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
I said something the following week at an elders meeting. The elders were saying how they liked his talk so much and asked, "Bro. OTWO, did you like the talk?" I said how it wasn't really accurate, how I had seen what the brother said in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, but not in the Bible. The elder who gave the talk insisted that I was wrong. I didn't intend a showdown, but I said, "So show me in the Bible or even in the Watchtower (our real Bible) where anything he said about the plagues was written." Even though that elder never admitted his mistake, the other elders did look it up and everyone knew, after-the-fact, that this was the talk information for a few hundred people.
