i know that the assembly is supposed to get the folks all excited about how close we are to the 'end of this system of things' but when my wife attends a memorial, she says nothing at all after it, even though this is supposed to be the most important night of the year for them..
What's there to be excited about?
Believers just went to a rejection ceremony, rubbed attending unbelievers noses in it, love-bombed a group they care nothing about and tried to fake concern for any DF/DA who showed up (because we all know they wouldn't even say hello to them if they saw the person anywhere else or even at a regular meat-ing).
I go home feeling dishonest and ashamed.
I would love it if someone could organize a large group (1000 +) to attend one single hall for a couple of years so that by the third year the conned-green-nation would feel the need to rent a place; then inform everyone in on the gag not to show up that year.
Three good thing would come of this, first they would look like fools, second they will have "wasted" money on a local venue and third this will help the local economy instead of lining wash-towels pockets (where the money would have been set).
well, i went along to the memorial with mrs cedars.
it was my first since my "awakening" just less than a year ago.
apparently i made a lot of people happy by being there (even if it was only building up false hopes), the most important of which were my family.
@wha happened: Too funny
Memorial Leapfrog
AWSOME!
has anyone ever considered going to the kh on memorial night or even just on some meeting night and putting donate blood stickers on a few cars?
maybe just the elders' cars?
lol i was thinking about it and wondered if anyone else thought of it or actually did anything like that..
No, but that's a good one.
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have you abandoned the wt idea of two classes of christians?
while still a believer, ray's books helped me to see that the idea of there being two classes of christians was a 'unique interpretation' of the watchtower society with no basis in scripture.
I thought about it, and then I realized the bible's just a farce anyway so why go through the trouble?
i worked that day and had to get to the hall early.
never usually ate until after.. were you ever tempted to take a bite and a sip?.
No! Just smelling that crap as it passed by made me wanna gag.
well, i went along to the memorial with mrs cedars.
it was my first since my "awakening" just less than a year ago.
apparently i made a lot of people happy by being there (even if it was only building up false hopes), the most important of which were my family.
Cedars you sound like my Dad, he only goes to appease my Mom and Sister.
I usually find a good excuse to why I can't ride with them so that afterwards, when everyone (including my Mom) is bullsnitting and love-bombing, my Dad and I hop in my car and make a quick retreat; I take him home and we usually pick up some desert on the way. (Yeah they actually suggest carpooling like were gonna fill our ginormous parking lot.)
As for the confused dance of the dogs, I laugh too. They take it so seriously I swear one of them is going to have an aneurysm.
Nah!
Not cannibalistic either!
hey, all who are or did attend the memorial..anything interesting happened?
have you ever heard of anything peculiar happening at the memorial?.
one of my friends gave me an experience where 4 out of the five elders partook of the emblems....daddy elder and his three son!!!
Quite a few years ago the "anointed" partaker in our hall choked on the bread, the elderberries were scrambling around but by the time they got poor brother elderly some water he'd drank a bunch of the wine.
BTW: He was one in the 1914 generation that wouldn't pass away, he's been dead for about 15 years now.
i felt with newer members coming on and other jw fence sitters lurking it might be a good thing to explain what many of us have had to go through in regards to being shunned, cut off, ostracized from our jw families in an unjust way .
whether we are dfed or inactive - many of us have shared this same fate and ill treatment.
for many of us- it makes us stronger, more firmly entrenched that the decision we made to exit the jehovah's witness organization was the correct decision as no organization that claims to be " christian " would ever commit such horrid atrocities or justify it !
I'm still in, but there are some DF/DA one's in my extended family and I'm expected to act like they don't exist.
I always wondered, besides being DF/DA, why are we not associating with them? They're good people!
