Did You Have a Favored Place to Sit in the KH?

by snowbird 40 Replies latest jw friends

  • ReallyTrulyAthena
    ReallyTrulyAthena

    My dad insisted that he and his brood sit in the dead center of the KH. That way when any one of us kids were actin' a fool, he could just LEAANNNNN over a pinch/shake us...HARD...and the whole congregation would see it (and they would praise my parents later for not 'sparing the rod' - ugh, spare ME!). "Building Family Unity Via Public Humiliation!" -- gotta love it.

    In my early 20s just before I was DF'd, my now ex-hubby & I sat in the back/as close to the exit as possible.

    I still occasionally have anxiety dreams about not being able to find a good, out-of-the-way seat @ the KH...yikes!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    RTA, you are some special!

    Syl

  • Ding
    Ding

    Asilentone,

    When the elder made the comment about you having a guilty conscience because you sat in back, you could have referred him to Luke 14:7-11:

    "When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8 "When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

    Of course, he might have countered, "That only applies to wedding feasts."

    Then the two of you could have written to Brooklyn to get the final word on seating arrangements directly from the FDS. It might even have been brought up at a meeting of the GB.

  • ReallyTrulyAthena
    ReallyTrulyAthena

    Aw, Syl -- no, YOU are! I'm so lovin' this forum and folks like you.

    Oh, I'm "special" all right...my doc tells me one day I'll be all better.

    I loved sitting in the library as well. It was somehow...safer in there, you know what I mean? Well, unless you were there sitting in front of a JC or something...

  • Joshnaz
    Joshnaz

    We practically had assigned seating for everyone in the cong.

  • MMXIV
    MMXIV

    At the back whenever possible but always on the side. Less chance of the WT conductor eyeballing you for an answer and also the speaker was less likely to be put off if I had a snooze during his talk.

    asilentone - fatal error to ever change a pattern of behaviour - guilty verdicts immediately cast.

    It was very obvious if people fell out as you could see them sitting well away from each other. Also that time when courting couples started to sit together and would be watched by dozens of people for the whole meeting. So many subtle moments that meant so much - like being in the victorian era.

    mmxiv

  • snowbird
    snowbird
    I loved sitting in the library as well. It was somehow...safer in there, you know what I mean?

    I know exactly what you mean.

    In the main hall, I always felt exposed.

    Can you tell I have all kinds of issues?

    Tee hee hee.

    Syl

  • ReallyTrulyAthena
    ReallyTrulyAthena
    Can you tell I have all kinds of issues?

    Hee hee - oh, you n' me both! What's that old line? "That person has more issues than National Geographic!" Sumthin' like that.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    That's a new one for me, RTA.

    LOL.

    Syl

  • ambersun
    ambersun

    As a young girl sitting with my family, it was about 3 rows from the front on the right hand side. Later, when I sat with my friends, we usually sat half way to 3/4 back either left or right. After I was married with a baby, it was at the back as near to the exit as possible. After I had my second child (we had moved by this stage and had joined another congregation) I was made to sit in the book room with no sound system and as far as I can remember, no heating either. Nobody wanted to hear a gurgling baby while the meeting was in progress. There was no point in me being there so I eventually stopped going until my baby was old enough to be told not to gurgle during meetings!

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