Oh S#*t! what do i do now?

by Pleasuredome 33 Replies latest jw friends

  • No Apologies
    No Apologies

    Gopher,

    Then there was this lady in another congregation, baptized perhaps in the 1970's, with emotional problems, etc. I was SHOCKED to see her drain half the wine glass one year.

    I think I know this poor person. I'll have to call or email you.

    We have one anointed brother at our hall. Gives one of the prayers at the Memorial. long drawn out thing.

  • Lassie
    Lassie

    Not that my post means anything in this thread, but reading about the Memorial brought to my mind a time when I attended a Memorial in 1986. I had been disfellowshipped (from a congregation in another city...of which I had moved out of but never really was informed "officially" by the elders. I only knew i was disfellowshipped from what I heard on the "JW street")...anyway...a few years passed and I wanted "back in" so I voluntarily went to the(new congregatin in another city) elders and told them I was disfellowshipped in xxx city but wanted to get "back in"....(of course they had to get my "papers" from the other city).
    yada, yada, yada....I attended meetings for months in this new congregation and accepted the "shunning" as part of my probation...ANYWAY...
    I attended The Memorial with my then five month old son and being the really good baby that he was, he never cried during the service or anything. After the talk was over and the prayer was given just before the "emblems" were passed there was this silence...and my lovely son gave the most precious and loud burp that only a five month old can...and low and behold there was a slight chuckling within the congregation and people turned to look to see where it came from...and the elder on the platform said, "well, without anymore being said...." they passed the emblems (don't think I am spelling that right). Needless to say, within a couple of months I was reinstated. That lasted for four years....and why I have "fallen" since then is another story itself and to this day (since 1989) I don't know if I am disfellowshipped or what!

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    The Memorial is the ONLY JW celebration, but what's even worse, at that "celebration" everyone looks absolutely miserable. (Until they all hit the bars after it's over.)

    Skip the memorial and hit the bars first! Or at least hit the bars first and then the memorial won't seem so bad! Be sure to sing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" while everyone else is singing the concluding song. Make sure you sing it out-of-tune.

    Farkel

  • Lassie
    Lassie

    "The Memorial is the ONLY JW celebration"
    would that be considered an Oxymoron?

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