Well memorial season is upon us again.(the witnesses like to think of one day as a season)
The Jehovahs witnesses have by and large bypassed crazy ceremonies, but something that started off as almost sane has turned to the bizarre.
On the 28 March around the world groups of witnesses will be passing a glass of red wine , and a plate of unlevened bread amongst each and every person in attendance .If you are lucky, you may spot a witness nervously sip the wine and nibble the bread, but most likely the wine and bread will be left untouched.
What a crazy thing to do.
Does the bead and wine really need to be passed between all people present (sometimes numbering into the hundreds) when the witness belief is that only 1444,00 have ever been able to partake?
Why not just have the anointed pass among themselves?
Did Jesus (imagining he is Gods Son etc. etc)really have this bazaar ritual in mind when he said "keep doing this in remmemberance of me"?
In fact did he mean to have a meeting set aside were people would observe the chosen ones eating bread and drinking wine?
Did he in fact have in mind, that his disciples ,when eating bread or drinking wine ( a staple in those times, in other words eating a meal)to think of his sacrifce, sustaining thier life like food? Or did he intend for them to do so,in a religious ceremony even one that some comemorate every day?
What is sure in my mind though is, that although remmembering Jesus is fair enough, the chosen way to do so has turned in to a comical farce , in which those selected to live on earth must sit and watch for the chosen ones within their mist, eat the tiniest meal imaginable in front of them,as a sign they have been chosen by God while they themselves can not touch a drop, or else face ridicule and more, putting them in thier place as secondary citizans of the new earth.