My Memorial Experience (page 2)

nomoreguilt

logic&reason.................WELCOME to JWD!!!

NMG

Yep, lots of teenage pregnancy. It's an epidemic. Alot of girls around me (JW) got pregnant around 18, either had abortions or became a single parent eyed by all JW onlookers. Lots of us were elders' daughters, including myself. Maybe they shouldn't of kept us out of sex education class.

WTWizard

What a waste. They wasted all that time and energy distributing the wastes of paper, including a strict deadline to get it done. Half the people probably didn't even get their wastes of paper, indicating that people were not going out in field circus and staying out all day (since when did the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger tell people to spend 80% of their time at Starbucks and/or McDonalds?).

Then they get there, and there is nothing more than an instruction talk for how to reject Jesus. Everyone then proceeds to reject Jesus, and then there is the hounding talk. The pathetic noise that passes for "music" is next. All that for this? What a fxxxing waste of gas, time, and paper!

144001

I attended this year, for the first time in well over a decade, to transport and assist an elderly relative who really wanted to go but has mobility problems. I thought, big deal, it's only 45 minutes, I can handle it. And in fact, despite my fears, it wasn't all that bad.

I found the experience to be quite interesting. The hall was exactly as I remembered, and the singing was as dreadful as ever. The speaker had ALL the answers that the "great crowd" wanted to hear. Much was made of the greater than 17 million who attended last year, while only 6K "partook" of the emblems. The obvious message was, don't eat the crackers, and don't drink the wine. And how do you know if you're one of the annointed who will serve as "kings" over the "Great Crowd" left on earth after Armageddon? Simple. You just know. God makes it very clear to you. OK, well based on that explanation, I'm definitely not one of the "annointed."

I listened carefully to the talk and read the scriptures that were referenced. According to the speaker, the 144,000 have been pre-selected by God to serve as "kings" over the great crowd that will remain on earth after Armageddon. My understanding is that at the present time, there are 195 countries on earth, which based on estimates that there are approximately 57,491,000 square miles of land on this planet, works out to an average of 294,826 square miles per country. That may seem like a lot, but look at how many wars have been fought during this "wicked system of things," many of which were fights over territory! Now, if we divide the present land mass by the 144,000 "kings" who are going to be running the show on earth, that works out to an average of only 399 square miles per king/kingdom. From my professional experience, I have observed that too many chiefs in the teepee is not a healthy situation, and is usually characterized by extremely vitriolic bickering and fighting. It seems to me that the Witness teachings about "God's plan" that includes 144,000 kings with such limited territory for kingdoms would be a formula for worldwide war, a disaster worse than the present "wicked system of things" God purportedly created.

As I thought ever more deeply during this experience, I also pondered the sadistic nature of those who call the shots at the corporations that profit from all of this. No birthdays, no holidays, no joyous events whatsoever, are permitted. However, they do allow one holiday, which is Easter but they can't call it "Easter." And, of course, they couldn't bear to make that holiday an enjoyable one. Instead, the "flock" is teased with wine and crackers they are forbidden by overt peer pressure to consume, and bored with totally unsupported claims regarding the details of the "new system of things."

I am so sorry for all who are living this lifestyle, and so happy I was lucky to leave this organization in my early teens. It was fun seeing old friends again, and I was treated rather well, despite the fact that many know that I am an agnostic and not susceptible to conversion. I wish them all the best in life, despite the difficulties they face as JWs.

I'll probably attend again next year. It wasn't that big of an inconvenience to me and it really provided a lot of happiness to the very thankful relative I escorted. Seeing that joy made it all worthwhile to me. It also proved to me that I've come a long way; from a very angry person resentful of what the Watchtower did to my life, to being a person that has moved on with his life and has sufficient mental health to endure a "return visit" to the source of his emotional trauma, all for the benefit of a loved one.

oneairhead

Thank you all for your responces! Sorry for the belated responces as I can only visit in short bursts. The memorial was the same 4 minutes of talk about Jesus and 41 minute infomercial. Sad really.

One

My Memorial Experience

logic&reason

nomoreguilt

Deidra

WTWizard

144001

oneairhead

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