(originally posted march, 2014)anyone who has awakened to ttatt and has conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent, highly-regarded, studious believer from a prominent multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.
by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dimissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".
nothing blasts a louder, clearer, and more deliberate message to the jws who personally knew you and those familiar with your jw bona fides that you are not merely "not making the meetings," "inactive," or "spiritually-weak," but that there is a conscientious reason you have rejected the entire watchtower society life than choosing to forego what they know you once believed to be jehovah's must-attend, one-and-only, holy/sacred event of the year for his people, the lord's evening meal.. you hand them the very justification they so relish to self-righteously label you as a "submarine witness" deserving of jehovah's, and more importantly, their judgement.
stanlivedeath said: why the use of the word "memorial" isnt this just watchtowerese ?
It's the JW word for 'funeral'. They 'flock' (ahem) annually to Jesus' funeral.
They gather on the wrong day to NOT do what Jesus supposedly instructed all Christians to do.
Hence, the moniker this event has been given it by the ex-JW community:
The Reject/Ignore Jesus Party.
god is alike to all of his children, hence cannot elevate one child above all others just because one was brought into existence before others.
(ezekiel 18:4) someone has to be first-born which does not give him any superiority over others!
interestingly, jesus simply dismissed the whole idea of one being placed over the others as pagan.
myth comes from myth and ritual comes from ritual.
myth and ritual are borrowed in the way fire is borrowed to light another flame.
john 6:53 says that whoever does not eat (jesus) body and drink his blood will have no life in him.
JWs gather once a year on the wrong day to NOT do what Jesus supposedly instructed them to do.
Back when Rutherfraud said this, JWs were considered a 'sect' and not a 'religion'.
My Mom was crystal clear with me on this fact.
Well, I do, of course. My levels of seratonin, endorphins, dopamine, and melatonin, to name a few, are all key factors in the functioning of my brain.
last time i was at the kingdom hall they were praising themselves about all the growth in members they have been having.
is this "growth" they are having statistically accurate?or are a lot leaving?
I suspect that even if Botchtower tracks people who leave, I am not sure they'd publish those facts. It probably doesn't look good.
With a large majority of the industrialized world's people aging, there is quite a number who will become too old to witness and will die off in the next 20 years.
My Father is one of these people. I have no idea what his official status is as a JW. I suspect it is 'inactive'. I guarantee they've removed him as a Ministerial Servant. He no longer has the ability to witness. Dementia has a way of doing that to a person.
The 'racket' part is a reference to something shady or illegal. As in:
Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime
As prologos said, the snare is a reference to a trap such as this:
as i sat through another mind numbing sermon this morning i could not help thinking that the speaker was a total clown.. lime green suit, white shirt, yellow tie, blue socks barely higher than his ankle, brown shoes, and an orange cast.
all that was missing was a big red rubber nose!
and of course everyone remarked what a wonderful talk he gave.
Love the clown pics.
