Not Seating at the Same Place in All Meetings.

by Tempest in a Teacup 17 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Tempest in a Teacup
    Tempest in a Teacup

    I haven't heard this one in a while but it has been on my mind lately. Maybe it's because I'm noticing that these days people at the KH are going the extra mile to vary their seating places in all meetings.

    Having skipped meetings for a few weeks, I'm wondering if there has been a talk/article about that recently. That's one of the most laughable rules they made and I never felt bound by it. I mean....give me a break! I can socialise before and after the meeting, no matter where I sat.

    Really want to know...has that rule ever helped someone, like making them to get closer to people they'd never have been close to? What in your opinion is the real motivation behind that pointless rule?

    I'm thinking...maybe just a way to add some sort of variety to an otherwise boring, tucked-in-stone routine at meetings.


  • DATA-DOG
    DATA-DOG

    I remember being a kid and hearing talks about switching seats now and then. Basically as a JW, you are NEVER doing it right. It doesn't matter what it is, you are screwing something up.

    Like all abusive relationships, YOU are not enough. A constantly improving, striving, suffering, reaching version of you, just might be good enough....someday. Then of course, the "final test"at the end of the thousand years.

    DD

  • ToesUp
    ToesUp
    One word...CONTROL!! They want exclusive control, so they make up all kinds of man made rules to see all the stupid/clueless people who they can control with fear. It works on so many! We refused to participate! Now we can sit anywhere we want, i.e. the beach, the lake, the mountains, in front of the TV, stay in bed Saturday and Sundays (so many choices). It's incredible!
  • blondie
    blondie

    I remember one congregation I went to where older jws had sat in the same seats for 25 years. The new CO and his wife came early Tuesday night and selected some seats. Later a couple came in and freaked that books were on their chairs...the CO and his wife. This couple moved to books over to another row and sat down in their "pew."

    The CO gave a talk at the end of the evening about pews in churches and how people paid to sit there. But there is no pew rent in Jehovah's house. There was a Thursday meeting then and the CO picked the same seats that night and that couple moved them again.

  • millie210
    millie210
    Ha ha...good for that couple!
  • prologos
    prologos
    We moved seats often, to deny an obvious, 2 hour look feast of focussing, direct line of sight on the most gorgeous sister in the hall.
  • Vagabond Manifesto
    Vagabond Manifesto


  • Tempest in a Teacup
    Tempest in a Teacup
    There was a Thursday meeting then and the CO picked the same seats that night and that couple moved them again.

    I'd give everything to be in that KH at that moment! Pointless meanness jw style: "I hurt you just because I can."

  • carla
    carla

    From Blondie's post-"The CO gave a talk at the end of the evening about pews in churches and how people paid to sit there. But there is no pew rent in Jehovah's house."

    Do jw's really believe that? Christians pay for their spot in the pew? oh for goodness sakes! how damn ridiculous is that?!

  • darkspilver
    darkspilver

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