| I did not go to the memorial this year or the four years before that The last time that i went the elder that was giving the talk said at the end of the memorial "Now dont think that since you came to the memorial that you will make it through The last days. You also have to attend every meeting and go door to door to make it into the paradise." And i figured since i was not doing either of the other two things it would not matter if i went or not. |
Posts by ejh
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10"Are you going to the memorial...?"
by Winston Smith :>D in"are you going to the memorial...?
that's the question i hear this morning from my wife in-between the daily ritual of smacking the snooze button.. i was still getting the sleep out of my eyes, so i had to think for a second if i was dreaming and if i had really da'd myself last year or not.. *check.
yep, that really happened*.
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Hello
by cameo ini'm a new person here and i have a question about a family member.
hopefully, you can help and i will appreciate any and all answers.
if a man marries a jw gal and the jw gal cannot get her husband to convert (he has no interest in joining, but supports her beliefs), will the jw gal be "looked down upon" by her kh?
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ejh
well i do not think that i have an anwswer but i can tell you my experience.. i went to the meetings with my family starting at about the age of 8 i was baptized at the age of 13..about a year after i was baptized my family moved to a new state and started attending a new kingdom hall.This congrgation was so much different then the congergation that we were from (at least i thought so at the time)we all slowley started missing meetings.The brothers in the congration as well as the sisters all acted like they were so much better then everyone else like the only time they would associate with me is if i was at a meeting the younger brothers and sisters that i went to school with would not if speak to me (at schoool) at the age of 16 i met one of my brothers non believing friends he was so sweet and one of the best guys i had ever met. However I knew that my parents were not going to let me date him. But i decided to go ahead and ask them if i could anyway. Much to my suprise they said yes as long as we went in groups etc. etc. i was so happy a year and a half later (we never slept, or lived together during this time)we got married..
I had not attend a meeting (Except for the memorial)since i had been married. Almost a year later two elders came to my house and told me that they needed to speak to me abut before we had gotten married. They had told me that a couple of sisters had come to the door and i answered the door in my nightgown. I was to say the least shocked I mean for one we had been married almost a year. They never told me who the sisters were that had accused me of this. It turns out they thought that we had been married for only a few months and i was never apolagized to by anyone. Since then no one has come to my door. (except one sister and her elder husband) And they would always say things that made it look to my husband like they were trying to control me and he would not have anything to do with them. I have not been to a meeting in the 6 and a half years that we have been married (except for two memorials)
Anyway I could go on and on. Although i have not attended meetings in my heart i still believed that what the witnesses taught was the truth so my practices did not change as far as holidays and things like that went.. To make a long story short i am still confused and i still do not yet know what to believe