by cab1000 22 Replies latest jw friends
One year I was really sick with a highly contagious bug and was under doctor's orders to stay under quarantine. I got to miss the Memorial that way. It was awesome.
You could always say that someone treated you like crap at the Memorial and that you're never going to set foot in the KH again. Then say: "Ha! Gotcha!! Had you going there, eh??" They'll never ask again after that.
Im in the same suitation as you are. This was our first memorial we missed.
Our family and friends dont know weve faded, cos we move far away. But I figured that the org has lied to me and continues to lie to my family, so if I need to lie this year and say I went I will.
Its up to me now, when and how I tell them that I dont go any more. And at the moment its not!!!!!!!
Im going to let it out little by little even if it takes a couple of years, until they get used to the idea. I will do anything to keep my relationships with family. This is one battle against the org that I want to win
You could say, "The WINE was very dry, and the BREAD had no flavor." :-) However, I agree with several others; just tell them you were ill. Don't view it as lying, but as "theocratic warfare."
Its scary at first, but it goes away.
You know you're fading ... and you have no intentions of 'getting brighter' again, so why care so much?
Once you know the truth about the truth, there is no New Light anymore ...
... so then its just a matter of letting all know, as delicately as possible, what the deal is. The chips will fall where they fall, but you'll feel a huge weight lift off your shoulders.
A part of you is still confined, trapped, enslaved ... with being open and honest comes happiness and the freedom to control your own destiny.
Screw anybody who stands in the way of that freedom.
The first time was difficult for me, too. I stayed long at the office so that I could not make it. I did not go and noticed that it did not hurt. The following years were much easier.
Tell them to buzz off! M.Y.O.B.
Dismembered
Just tell them "It was the same thing as every year." That way your not realy saying you went or not and your not lying to anyone.
I would say" how stupid do i look"
Really Stupid KLS! LOL
Brooke
Tell them what I told my wife when she asked me did I enjoy the memorial......
"it was the same as last year....."
***walks away***
