Ron.W. - “It always used to amaze me that they thought even long faded, totally disinterested ex jw's would somehow be gagging to attend their totally unscriptural annual memorial.”
It’s the same reason some relatives occasionally say, “you know it’s The Truth, right?”
Full-on True Believers, from the bottom to the top, really cannot grasp that the vast majority of XJWs are out, not because they’re weak, or wicked, or demonized…
…but simply because we’ve concluded that it’s not The Truth.