Amusing conversation re: Memorial

IronGland

Coworker: So growing up as a JW you didn't celebrate holidays?

Irongland: Thats right, Except for the memorial once a year. You know where you have the wine and bread

Coworker: Oh, so everybody does the communion thing.

Irongland: Sort of. Only people of the 144 000 actually drink the wine and eat the bread.

Coworker: What does everyone else do?

Irongland:Just look at it and pass it along. actually most of the 144000 are dead now so, in many halls (like mine) no one ate or drank.

Coworker:

Coworker:uhhhh, so everyone shows up, they pour wine that no one drinks and break bread that no one eats and then everyone goes home?

Irongland: Yeah

Coworker: Are you serious?

Irongland:Yep

Coworker: Really??

Irongland: Yeah,seriously.

Coworker:.............................. That's Stupid

Irongland:Yes. Yes it is, now lets go get some lunch.

Hahahaha! Oh man, I had a conversation like that last week. Seriously I had no idea how stupid it sounded until I tried to explain it without the canned JW-WTS speech about the "most important event... Jesus said... remembrance... blah blah" After several minutes of blank saucer eyes by the person I was talking to, I just spluttered to a stop and said, "Well that really doesn't make ANY sense at all, does it?" It was funny, had to be there.

Odrade

shotgun

Stupid isn't it considering that in Paul's day they often drank too much and got drunk!

Elsewhere

micheal

Coworker:
Coworker:
Coworker:uhhhh, so everyone shows up, they pour wine that no one drinks and break bread that no one eats and then everyone goes home?
Irongland: Yeah
Coworker: Are you serious?
Irongland:Yep
Coworker: Really??
Irongland: Yeah,seriously.
Coworker:.............................. That's Stupid
Irongland:Yes. Yes it is, now lets go get some lunch

That is friggin funny man - Thanks for making me laugh very loud.

cruzanheart

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live version of a presentation at the Service Meeting!

Nina

Undecided

I found a tape of me giving the memorial talk. It sounds really intellectual, no emotion at all, just facts man, no enthusiasm. After all, who could get excited about that ritual. That was over 30 years ago when I gave my last memorial talk.

My brother and I invited a neighbour across the road to go to the memorial when we lived in the country. We were in our teens. When we picked him up he was drunk. My brother introduced him to someone at the hall and he shook my brothers hand, that was so funny. They had to sort of skip him when the wine was passed.

Another incidence at my old hall, a lady my mother and aunt special pioneered with, who professed to be of the anointed, had a stroke at the memorial and died later that week. No one really cared because she was going to her heavenly home.

I attended the memorial for years after I left. The first time I missed I just forgot it, I was driving by the old hall and remembered it was memorial night. Haven't been back since.

Ken P.

smurfette

Way funny Irongland! I especially liked your use of illustrations.

I had that same conversation awhile ago at work too, my bartender co workers got really excited about the idea of crashing a memorial and drinking up the wine. Sadly I doubt they'll actually do it, but I think I may bring up the subject again closer to the big holiday just in case.

Sirona

LOL Irongland!

The funniest memorial I attended was with my gran - shes 90 now and she isn't a JW. My mum had decided to take her along, and she took pains to explain the no bread or wine rule.

As the wine was passed, my near-deaf gran shouted really loudly "oh, here comes the wine, but we're not allowed to drink it, are we??!!" then the bread "and here's the bloody bread, but we can't eat that either....HA HA HA HA"

She loves a good laugh, my gran.

Sirona

Satans little helper

I had a similar conversation on another topic recently. Someone asked me about the 144,000 and how the scripture in revelation mentions that they are all Jewish and all virgins. I went on to burble about it being fugurative etc and then stopped and said, that sounds so bloody stupid doesn't it?

It really made my fingers itch to think that I had been so blind to the stupidity of it all

Amusing conversation re: Memorial

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