Are You Going To the Memorial?

by headisspinning 83 Replies latest jw friends

  • stuckinlimbo
    stuckinlimbo

    No. I weighed up whether or not to go the first time after I stopped attending meetings as I thought maybe I should just go to give my parents some peace of mind, but I realised after I went that by going I would be showing that I believed, and that I thought I should go, and this would make me accountable to them and the organisation. I haven't been now for five years. I would worry about conversing with people there and being asked questions for which any or no answer would get me into trouble somehow. I think everyone knows that i'm not just "weak", so I'm better off staying away and off their radar screens.

  • chickpea
    chickpea

    reminds me of a lecture i heard in a sociology class

    guest speaker was a female rabbi, a REAL departure
    from the norm back in the late '70s....

    she talked about "american civil religion" which
    included the developing trend of americans relying on
    or utilizing religions (of all stripes) for the BIG THREE

    hatch, match, dispatch....

    plus incidental "holy days/holidays"

    it was/is something the participants DO
    not necessarily anything they BELIEVE

  • Crank!!!
    Crank!!!

    no, it will be my first year missing it.........cant wait to go to the bar instead!!

  • Honesty
    Honesty

    I got physically ill at the last one I attended in 2004 as I

    Watched 200+ people rejecting Jesus.

  • Lore
    Lore

    I would feel horrible not to go.

    I don't know your personal circumstances, but if you would actually feel bad about not attending. . . why not attend?

    It's not like us apostates are gonna shun you because you went to the memorial.

  • keyser soze
    keyser soze

    Go to the Memorial? On purpose?

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    Not since 4/2006

  • im stuck in
    im stuck in

    Yes I am going to keep the wife company. Besides the best part is going out to eat after it is over! stuck in

  • Found Sheep
    Found Sheep

    This will be my third year of no show

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    No. It's been 20 years since and I ain't about to go back now,..;)

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