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Has Anyone Been Present When a Dissident Spoke in KH?
by Band on the Run 27 Replies latest jw friends
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No Room For George
When Bro. Lett said that his wife was from Germany, the bum jumped up in front of everyone and started yelling "She's a Kraut! She's a Kraut!" My Dad and a couple of other Elders escorted him out of the hall. Half of the people in the hall were shocked, and the others were trying to keep from laughing and snickering. It made for some fun conversation after the meeting!
I would have howled LOL!!
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sir82
Closest I ever saw was a service meeting part on a Kingdom Hall remodel about 20 years ago.
The congregation was meeting in a really dumpy 1950's era Kingdom Hall. They had been contributing & saving for well over a decade to build a new Kingdom Hall. RBC said "no you should remodel your old one, and use the money you saved to do so."
The elder doing the part explaining all this asked for questions, and several cantankerous old Rutherford-era JWs really let him have it, about what a waste it would be, "throwing good money after bad", etc.
It was quite entertaining, and I was quite glad I wasn't giving that part!
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Blind_Of_Lies
A few years back a scuzzy guy showed up at one of our Sunday meetings, no one had ever seen him before in the hall but he was a well-known scumbag and meth head around town. He sat through the public talk then during the watchtower study (the study topic was about a prophecy involving a grapevine and the word of truth and the WTBS being the vine or something) (frankly I don’t remember the details of the study, it was nonsense and I was pretty much zoned out) (I do remember a picture relating to it in the Revelation book … I think… it was a line of seemingly random people with a grapevine all over them…) Anyway, they read some scripture and then through a very long stretch tried to say that the source of all truth was the GB or some nonsense like that. The guy first raised his hand, was ignored, then the conductor tried to move on with the next paragraph and he yelled out something challenging the whole thing. The conductor ignored him and moved on. It was amusing. It turns out the guy was called on out in service and answered the door all strung out and whoever called on him planted the seed that all he was missing in life was god and obviously we could provide that too him. Regardless, he never came back.
There was also several people who were brought into our congregation or who studied for extended time frames (like 5-10 years) who would attend…but they were stark raving mad. Like crazy, in and out of institutions kind of crazy. One of these people insisted on sitting alone, like in her own row… and in the front of the KH. The locals knew this and avoided her like the plague because she was known to either be violent or obsessive over brothers. Wives hated her because once she zoned in on a brother he was her everything, she suddenly couldn’t drive herself ANYWHERE, she was always sick, her house (an apartment with management) needed yard work, she couldn’t walk without holding someone’s (usually the brother’s) hand…. And on and on and on. Well one week we had a new family move into town and into the congregation. Well, they were late one meeting shortly after they moved in and the mother and daughter came in slightly after the song ended and found what appeared to be an entire row of empty seats with only 1 resident… they came in and sat down with like a 2 empty chair buffer between them and the lady who was crazy… they didn’t know she was crazy… slightly after they sat down she stood up looked at the woman and her daughter and screeched “BABALYON’S WHORES” then stomped out. That was fun.
Im going to start a similar thread about the above situation… I have a theory.
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dog is god
As for the "Kraut" thing.....was she a "sweet" or "sour" kraut?
I had alread left but a sister had divorced her husband and they had 2 kids. She was disfellowshipped. She then remarried a guy in the army. It was her weekend to have the kids but the ex husband took the kids to the meeting instead. So she got 4-5 of this army guys friends and they stormed the kingdom hall. I can just imagine everyone turning to stone and then the biggest brothers coming around to get them out. The police were called. No violence, no charges but she got her kids. I personally don't think I would do that. but I WOULD stand very silently and peacefully at the back till the meeting was over and take my kids home. I wouldn't want the kids freaked out. I guess it was a real hot mess.
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PaintedToeNail
These are great stories!
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Blind_Of_Lies
Bump... I love this thread... lets keep it goin
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techdotcom
Not too long before I'd finally had all I could take, the summer of 2010, we were at the CA (i think) and when the brother wrapped up his talk at the end of sunday with a jab at the Avatar movie I said "He's kidding, right?" loud enough for a few rows ahead and back to hear. After we overheard some people a few rows in front making a comment along the lines of "Well you know they research this stuff very well before hand". Needless to say my wife was mortified and pretty pissed at me.
But he seriously caught me off guard. I had heard they were going to say something about Avatar and so I listened very carefully, waiting for the slam on spirituality in the movie or the violence or something like that. Nope he goes to the other, older meaning of the word avatar from eastern religions....I was totally expecting to smugly snort and jab my wife about an overeaction like with the Harry Potter movies or the smurf thing of old and instead he went comepletely off radar and used the wrong meaning for how the word was used in the movies title....I had got my self so on edge waiting for one thing that I just got suprised and forgot to keep my mouth shut. Very suprised no brothers came to talk to me. But I'd been inactive for 10 years so maybe they just figured to let it slide. Oh and the wife and I both liked the movie and had seen it, so she understood what I was saying. She was still pissed that I emberrased her though...lol
BTW - What really puzzles me is there is a perfect, popular cartoon "Avatar, the Last Airbender" that DOES use the word with the old meaning in mind. Just some of the stupidest people being put in a position of authority...........
But I've never been lucky enough to see a really good outburst, or brave enough to do it myself.