Did You Feel Superior To Those People Who Only Ever Came To The Memorial? (page 3)

lazyslob

No I was jealous. I hated the meetings and stopped going when I moved out of my parents home.I´ve been in maybe 3-4 memorials since then.

adelmaal

I just always used to think, "Why bother?"

Why just go to one meeting when you don't want to go to any of the others...

Now I don't bother with the Memorial and I don't go to any of the other meetings so I guess in a way I still feel that way. But then I don't have relatives in "the troof". Just my ex and who wants to see or hear about his/her ex?

purplesofa

I never felt superior, I felt envious and a little jealous and very confused......

That's how I felt, like they had the balls to stay away and I wished I did. They were still loved from what I could tell. Accepted, well at least this particular night. Its' amazing how much fuss is over someone that rarely comes, someone is always trying to encourage. But when you become a regular like everyone else, you get sick of each other. The banal lives we all lead. New ones and ones that hardly came were mysterious and exciting to me.

Tigerman

As a non- Witness I did the same thing. I attended church on a regular basis, so when Easter or Christmas was celebrated and all these unfamiliar faces showed up at church I felt like, ' Just look at these people will you. They attend church only on the holiest of days . . . such nerve ! ' I was young and stupid. I've grown up.What amazes me is that, obviously, a lot of people don't allow for their minds to explore and experience the world beyond their ' induced self ' and thus corralling the gift of chance experience that God, through life, gives us.

Sometimes I feel very ashamed.

blondie

I have to admit I wondered why they came just for the one day.

But many JWs think that the Big A will come on the day of a Memorial and want to get all their wayward friends and family there for that one day.

Blondie

Es

I guess I no longer feel hypocritical like the rest of them this was my fist year that i missed the memorial.

FlyingHighNow

No. I found that superior attitude displayed by some jws to be very stumbling and very much like the Pharisees. I suppose this is why I did not last that long as an active JW. I guess it was about 10-11 years before the jws nearly did me and my precious little family in.

blondie

I can remember whispered bios:

He used to be an elder,

She used to be a POs daughter

They just built a big house and go boating all the time...no time for meetings I guess

Do they think they won't die at Armageddon...just coming to the Memorial

FlyingHighNow

He used to be an elder,
She used to be a POs daughter
They just built a big house and go boating all the time...no time for meetings I guess
Do they think they won't die at Armageddon...just coming to the Memorial

All of this was food for thought for me. I felt empathy for people like this. I didn't understand why anyone would feel less than kindness and empathy for inactive ones.

GetBusyLiving

I dragged my now ex witness roomate to last years memorial because I thought it would be good for him at the time (brainwashed). All I heard from everyone after the memorial was "does he really think going to one meeting is going to save his life at Armageddon". I quit going to meetings not long after.

GBL

Did You Feel Superior To Those People Who Only Ever Came To The Memorial?

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