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whyamihere

Blondie:

I believe Christ is everywhere in my heart as well. I also think there is nothing wrong with having a memorial service in the private of you own home. I choose to please my mother. I have been doing the Fade Away process like you have said in your past posts. If you read it clear I also stated: Pleasing God or my Family is a tough battle.

I have only been out for 7 or 8 moths. This is all I have ever known. People have a hard time letting go of certain things. For me this is one of them. I want to go Mainly for my mother I have to be honest with that. Also yes it is for Jesus. Do you think Jesus would be upset I want to worship him there? Also go for my Mom to please my mother as he pleased his father Joseph being a carpenter? Do you think he would think bad of me? I have let alot of things go in life. When I am willing and ready to let this one go that will be up to me and my choice. Others may agree or disagree but I have to live with myself and my actions others don't. If I can go to sleep at night knowing I have done nothing wrong I will sleep.

Brooke

Gopher

Not going. It'll be the same this year as every year:

7 pm - song ("Lord's Evening Meal") and prayer

7:05 -- speaker rambles for 25 minutes about why most people cannot partake of the emblems

7:30 -- prayer for the bread

7:32 -- everyone passes the bread around and gives it a good "sniff"

7:38 -- prayer for the wine

7:40 -- everyone passes the wine around and gives it a good "sniff"

7:46 -- speaker rambles for 3-4 minutes about not making this the only meeting you attend this year, and what the meeting schedule is, and that you should ask for a Bible study if you survived all this with your sanity intact

7:50 -- concluding song "Hail Jehovah's Firstborn" , prayer, dismissal (go to a bar or restaurant if you're in one of the cliques)

holly

Im going. never been to one before, so thought id take a look

holly

Big Dog

Out 25 years and my family still invites me, as if that will jump start my faith or perhaps save my soul (pun intended). And the name, the Memorial just absolutely turns me off. Yeah, I'll celebrate Christ's sacrifice, I think I'll do it on that day in a Catholic or Orthodox church where they actually seem to know what to do with the bread and wine, emblems I never read that Jesus broke the emblam, or drank the emblam. I can't think of a more depressing place to be.

AK - Jeff

whyamihere -

I struggled big time with this issue. Wifey and I have been out for a little longer than you - but not much. I would feel obligated to partake if I went again. My notion of the reason for the Lord's Supper has changed due to the un-indoctrination process that I think is starting to really help me see clearly nowadays.

It may be too soon for you not to go - or maybe you will go for years to the Memorial - your choice. It is hard to get to the point where you stay home with the mind-fog that has been driven in so deeply.

My struggle is with finding an alternative - I don't trust religion anymore at all - but I feel some sort of need to 'commune'. Being out of the organization, and having been in almost all my 50 years, I have no friends outside or inside at the moment. [Persons on this board excepted]

Tough calls once we leave, huh? I won't be going.

Jeff

JustTickledPink

Why not have a VIRTUAL passover/memorial right here on the net? Someone starts a thread and everyone posts what they thinking/feeling and for an hour everyone shares it together, but remains in their own homes?

Evesapple

Nisan 14th is April 23rd according to my Jewish Calendar.....and no memorial here, most likely we'll be having a family seder :)

Pleasuredome

do u think there's any extra secretive gatherings to drink the blood (or reject it even) at the height of the full moon that night? i think there may be lol. btw, im going for my own drink at the pub. cheers

Dawn

I won't be going - haven't been invited since I told my mom I'd partake if I went .

However, I do observe the memorial. If I can get together with friends to observe with wine and unleavened bread I do - if I can't get with friends, then i do it on my own. For Christ's sake. But I choose NOT to celebrate Christ along side a group of people who are simultaneously denying his offer.

upside/down

I went last year for reasons already mentioned. I even invited a couple to go and they went. I prayed to J that if there was ever to be a reconciliation between me and his people, give me just a teency weency little "sign". He did... not one person so much as introduced themselves to me or my "guest", they had "Methuselah" give the talk (the MOST BORING talk I've ever heard) and although the hall was packed we didn't even get so much as a greeting either before or after! We even tried to involve ourselves and just kept getting ignored. I finally realized that J had given us a "sign"- It said "Get the hell out and don't come back, we don't want you or your friend!" in big red letters- I've never been so embarassed or humiliated. My "brothers" sure rose to the occassion didn't they?

Never Again- these people do not have Christ! And if these people represent "Christ", then Christ is an ass too.

u/d

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