I enjoyed the memorial. It always felt like a holy night to me. My problem was preventing myself from eating/drinking the emblems. Every year it was a battle. I even had dreams where I would partake and piss off the entire congregation. I don't know why I had to struggle like I did. Maybe it was the whole idea of having the forbidden fruit.
Did You Enjoy Simply Passing The Bread & Wine At The Memorial?
by minimus 54 Replies latest jw friends
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DanTheMan
It seemed strange at first. Later it still seemed strange, even stranger. The last memorial I attended seemed the strangest of all. They started playing the kingdom melodies over the PA while the emblems were being passed in silence. Can't get enough of those kingdom melodies.
What a bizarre religion.
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boa
sure as a kid I enjoyed it and later was more bored than anything and the odd brief question would drift about my noggin that this was a ritual just like any other church, and in the last few years I appreciated that it had to be short and sweet so as to get every congregation at that hall through the spiel. I too was always very concerned about spilling the wine. I always thought that the way the bros passing the emblems all around and then sitting down and passing it to each other was REAL weird, then someone said they do this in case one of them wants to partake - uhhh, ok I guess. This will be my first time in over 30 yrs that I will not, thankfully, go to the memorial which even hardcore faders, spiritually 'weak', df's ones etc go to, so I must be a real spiritual 'loser' in their eyes, HAH, and no doubt between that and when I'm gonna soon cancel my mag order, will get attention from the kh brass. I just love the same old boring talk, with the same old false importance for the 'other sheep' to be attending. Its sick that this is now totally accepted as a legitimately Bible-santioned event in the eyes of most dubs imo. boa
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Sunspot
***Even if I were Christian I would not go because not partaking of the emblems seems to contradict any real respect for Jesus' sacrifice.***
I didn't give this a second thought until someone on a discussion board brought it up---and how surprised I was at myself for not seeing it sooner! It's like a royal slap in the face to Jesus ("do THIS in remembrance of me"). If Jesus died for ALL mankind, WHO has the audacity to stand in the way of ANYONE's taking part in this activity?
ONLY an Organization removed from God AND Jesus and had ulterior motives, would even THINK about being so presumptuous!
hugs,
Annie
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minimus
I know of a husband and wife that were of the "anointed", although NO ONE believed it. They partook and created a frenzy for years. They are now inactive and are having some sort of home ministry where about 8 to 10 people go every week.
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seeitallclearlynow
I didn't especially enjoy it, but it gave me something to do during the meeting.
And I liked the Memorial "meeting" best because it was only an hour and you weren't supposed to arrive early or stay long after, because of the other congregation that was leaving or coming next.
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minimus
My mother asked me if I was going to the Memorial. I told her that if I did, I wouldn't tell her one way or another and that if I did go, it would be in a different Hall. My wife suggested perhaps we could just lie and say we went where no one else knew us.
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CountryGuy
It always felt like a holy night to me. My problem was preventing myself from eating/drinking the emblems. Every year it was a battle.
Maybe you were one of the annointed and didn't know it?
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Puternut
In my hall they would not pass the emblems to df'd ones. They were instructed to pass-over them. Whatever that meant.
But than later after it was over all the young kids could go up to the stage and help themselves to the 'bread' and hand it out to the other kids to munch on.
Puternut
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minimus
Puter-----Maybe they were celebrating Passover, not the Memorial.