Saturday Morning Musings ...

by snowbird 55 Replies latest jw experiences

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  nancy drew

  Oh how I dreaded those conventions and what was especially annoying and when I began to realize that i was beginning to pull away were all those prelimnary talks about "anticipation" and all the phoney "I can't wait or It's coming just in time because I really need it".

  As I realized they were worthless and was so happy it was over I thought somethings wrong here.

  Now it's all in the past and saturdays mornings are so relaxing sitting in my recliner drinking coffee looking out the window at the park across the street. Thinking about what interesting things should we do today?
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  snowbird

  I still have flashbacks of rushing around trying to get my semi-invalid mother settled down, watching the clock so I wouldn't be late, and almost passing out from the heat and humidity.

  Sometimes, I feel like choking someone!

  Syl
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  free @ last

  Half the time I couldn't figure out what we were all applauding for. . . . . I think it didn't really matter what was said as long as the brother from the platform used his crescendo voice we reacted like Pavlov's dog and clapped for 30 seconds (45 seconds if he was a Bethel heavy or GB member). This behavior is even more noticable at the costume parties they call international conventions.

  The worst ever special meeting/assembly experience was right after 9/11. . . . Any of you remember it? . . . The GB called a special, special assembly by special, special invitation to the congregations in the Tri State Area, and every one was issued a special badge . . . . . We all thought they actually had something important to say about the start of armageddon or something. . . . instead it was all the same warmed over s#!t. People all left with that glazed over look but were still praising the 'food at the proper time' just a few wispered that there had been a last minute change to the program.

  Would love to know what that one was really all about.
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  snowbird

  Hmmm ... @ Free at Last.

  Syl

  Edit: Tri-State area???
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  WTWizard

  Those things are a complete waste. The first time I went to one of those wastefests, I was looking forward to it because it was the first time. I sat through it, and since it was my first time, it had the illusion of being enlightening. Then I went to another, and it was a super whopper of a letdown. The biggest thrill was squashing my roommate's Coke can so he couldn't get his nickel deposit back--other than that, I didn't remember a thing worthwhile about that. And they have been complete wastes of my time and resources ever since.

  Then, they decided that I should be going solely for the program (which I can just as easily get right here on this forum), not because of helping others I see fit to or to meet the opposite sex. Once that happened, I had no incentive to waste the time and resources--and started missing them on purpose. The best ones are the ones I get to miss--no worries that the air conditioning will be too wimpy.

  Or, the time I got jury duty during the week when there was a Grand Boasting Session going on. One morning, got dismissed--and that was more productive than wasting all three days 5,000 times (that's how many I estimate waste their time on those things).
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  poppers

  Tea, please

  Here ya go, snowbird. Brewed hot, just for you.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHsgt4NN9GA
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  snowbird

  The biggest thrill was squashing my roommate's Coke can so he couldn't get his nickel deposit back--other than that, I didn't remember a thing worthwhile about that.

  LOL.

  Syl
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  snowbird

  Thanks, Poppers.

  Earl Grey seems to be everybody's favorite.

  By the way, how are the bruised ribs?

  Syl
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  watersprout

  Oh how I remember the conventions!

  I hated them! With a passion!

  How much babysprout hated them, sitting all day getting more and more irritable... There is only soo much a toddler can play during those long hours.. The looks we would have because I kept giving her food and drink... Then when she waas soo exhausted she would just cry and cry... The long journey home and then to start again the next day!

  We usually had wet, cold weather for the conventions... We would be wrapped up in blankets shivering! And the conventions were usually in July!!!! There has been a handful where it was hot and that was awful. Should have been at the park enjoying the hot weather with a picnic, not listening to crusty old men...

  There was a supermarket next door to the football stadium we used to go to and soo many would descend to have a cooked breakfast and lunch... During the sessions, we would go over and find the cafe full of dubbies drinking tea and eating cake... This used to eat into the sessions, so all the congregations had strong counsel not to go... There were still quite a few that went! Lol... Took no notice of that council... Then a few years back Bethel sent letters out to the congregations saying that the stadium would not be renting their stands out to the WT anymore... So they found a stadium miles away with nothing around it... No supermarket, nothing! It was horrid, like a prison! I swear they did that so the R&F wouldn't wander off to find food and relief from the constant drivel...

  Peace
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  snowbird

  I swear they did that so the R&F wouldn't wander off to find food and relief from the constant drivel...

  But, of course.

  Just like they quit holding conventions in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the Gulf Coast Coliseum - too many gambling casinos!

  WT is no fool.

  Tee hee hee.

  Syl