Re: Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not? (page 4)

jwfacts

Of course not. If I did, everyone would assume I still believe the Watchtower Bull Shit, and so don't go to meetings because I am doing some "sin of the flesh."

Terry

An uncelebrated celebration? Only Jehovah's Witnesses could come up with something so blasphemous!

You go and you sit there like a lox. Some celebration!

The whole Kingdom Hall charade is simply daft.

mP

I already witnessed it 5 months ago, one of the benefits of living in the southern hemisphere.

Heaven

Let's see.... The Memorial or better named The Ignore/Reject Jesus Party.... a gathering held on the wrong day to NOT do what Jesus told us to do.

So that would be ... No, I am not going. I have more important things to do... like change the tires on my jeep, wash my hair, and get up early in the morning to work.

check

Hi everyone,

You all had some interesting comments, many of them i could understand as well.

Hi Justmom,

I am sorry to hear that happen to you. It must have been pretty tough to leave a religion you had all your lives and just because you found some inconsistencies in their teachings, you were kicked out even by some of your remaining family.

I think I can understand your desire to want to keep going back. It sounds like you want others to know what you know. When you go, do you announce to everyone there who you are and why you've come? Do you tell them that they all should partake and that they are "shutting up the kingdom" (as you mentioned)? Do you warn the visitors who are sitting in the audience that they also should partake?

I imagine if you said all this while you were there, they might ask you to leave. Then again, maybe for the sake of your family or others that you care about who dont know, you might think its worth the temporary embarassment. Would you agree that is the point in going, that you should tell them this while you are there?

I looked over that passage you cited in Ezekiel 3. It appears that he was told to go to the people and to speak. From what I can gather, supposedly God talked to him and gave him some words, and he was to go and deliver these words to all the people. I believe the goal was to inform/warn those who were doing wrong so that they can have the opportunity to do the right thing.

I suppose then, it would be pretty difficult for this Ezekiel person to accomplish this without explaining to them "in detail" how they were wrong so that they can make the choice do what is right. I noticed a similarity in your case. It appears that you also seem know in detail what they are doing wrong. I guess my question is, now that you know this will you go and tell them? Will you say in front of everyone who is there and explain it to them so that everyone can have the opportunity to make the right choice?

Thank you for the love, sending love back at cha' (smile)

OUTLAW

Christ is the only way and truth and life and door to go through to get to Jah.

Not man! Not an organization!....JustMom

Thats way too much Jesus Talk for a Memorial..

How`d you like to be Double DF`d?!!..

It`s like Being DF`d..

With a Cherry on Top!..

........................... ...OUTLAW

Dismissing servant

"I looked over that passage you cited in Ezekiel 3. It appears that he was told to go to the people and to speak. "

Ezekiel chapters 3 and 4 are interesting. God didn't treat his own prophet in a good way....I do recommend reading those chapters.

The most tasteless is this from chapter 4: 9 "Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels [ b ] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin [ c ] of water and drink it at set times. 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."

Sorry if this is a bit off topic

nugget

NO I will not be attending. The meeting is pointless and based on a fallacy, it serves no purpose and going would merely enable JWs to feel validated in their attitude towards me.

I neither know the date or care when it is.

love2Bworldly

No I won't be attending and haven't since about 1987. I just had a thought though. It would really be fun to go and use my phone's recording to watch people's stupid "love" bombs to the new person. I wish I could be a fly on the wall when JustMom attends.

Re: Will you attend the Memorial this year? Why? Why not?