The Memorial never did a thing for me, maybe it was because I never attended it as an adult. But it just always seemed like the most lame empty ceremony I had ever been to. I just could never get very worked up about it. I got more of a feeling for Christ's sacrifice watching a movie about the event than I ever did sitting through the Memorial.
The Memorials coming up......and ......
by ScoobySnax 31 Replies latest jw friends
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willyloman
Scoob:
How do the dubs feel about you when you show up at the memorial after having missed 52 weeks of meetings?
In my three decades in the organization serving in a variety of positions across several congregations, it was my experience that the vast majority of dubs viewed people who only showed up for the memorial as hypocrites.
I know the WTS pays lip service to how happy they are to see "interested ones" show up for this annual gathering, but the rank and file view inactive dubs who never show up except at the memorial with disdain. These people, in their view, are no better than the oft-maligned members of Christendom who show up at church on Easter and never come back until next year. "What's the point?" is the comment I heard most often.
I say this not to hurt your feelings, but to get you to think about what you are doing and how it is viewed by the "friends." I realize that we all exit at our own speed.
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DanTheMan
I think if you no longer go to the Memorial, it is your last rejection of the JW faith.
A faith who's bottom line is - Join us, slave for us, or DIE.
Do you believe that you are going to be killed by God for your lukewarm faith Scoob, along with the rest of non-JW humanity, which is 99.9% of the population?
Why wouldn't you give this faith a final rejection by skipping this lifeless, pointless annual ritual?
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ScoobySnax
Wily I really think that I know by now a genuine welcome when I see one. Of course that is by the congregations around this town I live in. I'm not sure if that is what you meant by the "rank and file" That phrase is used far too often on here, and I'm not entirely sure exactly who it pertains to. Do you mean the GB and Witnesses I don't know? The elder body? Who? .....help me out here. I've always said that I really feel that the brothers and sisters do give me a warm welcome, and it isn't just "lip" service. Its a bit of a sweeping statement you made. And I'm not at all offended.
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ScoobySnax
Dan.....haven't seen you fot a while! In answer, I guess I think its better, hypocritical or not to have a luke-warm faith, than reject it all together and have none. (as in what I see right)
And yes, I expect to die.
Why wouldn't I just skip it? Ahh well we're back to the beggining of this thread on that one.
Scoob
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Siddhashunyata
Big Tex, thanks for sharing. Got a big laugh out of that. Perhaps a thread on PROFOUND ironies is in order. That story would rank near the top.
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GetBusyLiving
:I think if you no longer go to the Memorial, it is your last rejection of the JW faith.
I'm not there yet.
No shit scoob. Maybe this year there will be a sufficient enough surge of JW's that die from declining blood transfusions to REALLY put you over the wall.
GBL
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DanTheMan
And yes, I expect to die.
What I asked though, is, do you expect to be murdered by God?
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ScoobySnax
GBL......JWs and there refusal of Blood Transfusions has no bearing on my attending or not the Memorial. I'll sit on the wall still.
Murdered by God Dan? What at Armageddon? Yeah I reckon as it stands I'm pretty shagged as things stand at the moment. If you think, I'm thinking the Memorial is my free pass into the New System, then no, I don't think that at all. But I still think its the right thing to do, even if I have made a fuck up of most things.
Scoob
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DanTheMan
Scooby, God is not going to murder you or anybody else.