DEATH OF LAZYASS

by gilwarrior 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  gilwarrior

  Today my mother informed me that the husband of the woman who she first studied with died yesterday. To be honest his death didn't effect me one way or another since I hadn't seen in years and I was never that close to him.

  I don't remember his name, but what I remember most about him was that years ago, when I was a kid, several of the young people in our congregation nicknamed him "lazybutt." Privately I called him "lazyass." The reason he got that nickname was because he never did anything in the congregation. He would come to the Kingdom Hall with wife sit on his fat 300 pound duff and never did anything. He never gave parts, never held the microphone, never went out on service, and he never even answered in the meetings. Yet this guy was always in good standing with the congregation. (Could it be because most of the elders were his sons or were related to him in some way? No, of course not.) Anyway, he is gone now. Cancer got to him. So I say we all bow our heads in a minute of silence in memory of "lazyass."

  "Lazyass" (*holding a drink in a toast*) this is for you big guy.
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  Skeptic

  I don't know the fellow, but based on your words, are you not being unfair to him? Who did he hurt? Who did he harm? Who did he mistreat? Or are you upset at the elders for not forcing him to do more?

  So he was a "weak" Dub? Is that a crime? He may have officially been in good standing, but he wasn't in good standing as far as the opinions of the cong if he was known as lazybutt.

  Many Dubs do "nothing about the truth". It is not uncommon for brothers to attend meetings and do nothing else. Sometimes the elders get on their case and sometimes they don't.

  Maybe you are upset that the elders did nothing. But if you are critical of him, why does he deserve your scorn? If he did not bother anybody, why get upset about him?

  If all he did was just attend meetings and do nothing else, why speak ill of the dead?

  Richard
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  gilwarrior

  Well Skeptic what bothered me was that in the congregation at that time there was a lot of nepotism. It bothers me that elders in the congregation were encouraged to participate as much as they could while this guy did nothing and got away with it. I never really hated the guy. I guess I just handle death differently than most people.
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  wheelwithinwheel

  I used to feel that way about all the lazyasses

  After going through and observing the ms and elder ladder-climbing and all the hand-stomping coming from the boots of the guys on the higher rungs I'm now convinced the lazyasses were the only sane ones in the KH.

  Funny one just died in my area and the CO gave a talk saying this bro understood the more important issues. Which I believe was true in his case. Sadly the only reason the CO was kind to him in his talk was because the lazyass was his father-in-law.