by Room 215 13 Replies latest jw friends
Watch that computer, Ozzie. Mine started acting like that last week and tday, after new memory sticks, a new hard drive, a new keyboard and hours upon hours of reformatting and reloading my stuff, it is working right again. LOL, these machines are our friends, right?
Lew W
Sure is hard being an apostate, Lew!
And the borg says those wicked apostates take the "easy" way out! If they only knew!!
Cheers, Ozzie
For years and years, I had the distinct impression that JW's did not regard cremation as a good form of "burial". In fact, in all the years I was borg, I never heard of one cremation taking place in our congregation.
I was shocked when both my parents chose to advise me formally back in 1988, that they had both made all their funeral arrangements, pre-paid for cremation, WITHOUT any type of service by the KH. I could understand my dad's position, as he was a fence setter for years, got baptized, then became totally inacative. But, my mom's position really did rather shock me as far as not wanting a service of any kind. (I didn't let on that it concerned me one way or another. As, at the time, they had not associated or communicated with me on any other level. To send me some information about their funeral plans was probably something they felt important. Or perhaps they thought they could get to me that way. They told me they didn't want me showing up to grieve or anything.) I just wrote back and told them, fine, I didn't want them to come to my funeral either, should it occur. (I could be a little stinker!)
My dad died in Jan. '01. (My folks live 1,000 miles away.) I was told he was to be cremated and that he absolutely wanted no service by anyone. He did this by writing out his own wishes in his own hand. His non JW brother was quite hurt/angry. Personally, it didn't bother me. I didn't visit my relatives until five months later. I saw no need to do so, and even if they'd had some sort of service, I really just didn't want to go down at that time.
My dad's ashes were in my brothers home in Florida, under his desk for nearly another year, until I strongly suggested to him to "get rid of that box". So, the family that lived down there, and my sister and her husband from TX, showed up a while past the anniversary date of his death, and spread his ashes to the wind, water and air. I wasn't present for that either. I wrote something down for my brother to read, which my mother (borg) was probably very offended by. But, my brother honored my wishes and read every word.
I remember that the borg really didn't like you to go to a gravesite to visit, bring flowers, etc. They taught us that the body was no longer there anyway. Time would better be spent out in service, etc. But, I know that some JW's did their own thing anyway, in that regard. It is such a private and personal issue.
I hear that cremation is quite popular now, but I don't read WT literature at all, so I don't know what they are thinking now or what they present as THE LAW or LIGHT from god.
Love and Light,
Sentinel
"Flowers sent with the right motive, without the pagan belief as a background, are not objectionable"...........so the principle is as long as you have the right motive, even if the belief is of pagan origin, well it's o.k. Celebrating a holiday , as long as you have the right motive is o.k. Toasting is o.k. Wearing a cross is o.k. MORE NEW LIGHT.
