LEAST FAVORITE MEETING

by new light 48 Replies latest jw experiences

  • happehanna
    happehanna

    Did anyone ever use the Watchtower for secret coded messages? I did, I used to circle words and letters that described how rediculous some of the people came across. I'm baaaaaaad!

    Oh yes I remember that well...........my daughters and I had a great time doing that. anything to relieve the boredom.

    the worst meeting was the public talk the number of those I just had to walk out of ........truly awful.

  • Nosferatu
    Nosferatu

    The entire Sunday meeting was a drag. A boring talk, followed by a boring Watchtower Study. The book studies were second. The TMS and Service meeting weren't as boring, although I hated having the Thursday Night committment.

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    1)Public Talk worst esp if poor speaker

    2) Watchtower next --- "the paragraph says ---- I can not think for myself

    3) Service meeting next

    4) Book Study --- still the paragraph says ---

    5) Theocratic Ministry School best -- still love that meeting

  • Maverick
    Maverick

    Service Meeting was so boring! But I really hated Elders and Servants meetings. I kept my mouth shut and would cringe when Brother A**kisser would suck up to the PO and try to get browny points by re-telling, (with full admiration) everything the PO just finished saying. The sisters who had to wait outside were way better off than the poor stooges who had to sit with these semi-literate, uneducated dopes! Maverick

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    But I really hated Elders and Servants meetings. Really Mav - I used to love them -- amusing really watching the MS reaching out to be elders who could do the most ass kissing -- but yes I found it amusing to watch the illiterate elders squirming when I used to fire off answers to their silly remarks/qusetions etc , with articles, scriptures, references, and above all letters from the Society -- great fun

  • blondie
    blondie
    found it amusing to watch the illiterate elders squirming when I used to fire off answers to their silly remarks/qusetions etc , with articles, scriptures, references, and above all letters from the Society

    That wouldn't work on every elder body. My male relatives who served on several different bodies said that some elders started laughing at elders would brought out scriptures and articles to prove their point. The only thing that mattered most were those BOE elders letters and sometimes what a circuit overseer said 2 visits back.

    Blondie

    But I liked the TMS most. I was a last-minute substitute many times. I researched talks for a couple of brothers (secretly of course). It went faster because it was broken up into several small parts. It was a chance to see someone other than an elder up there. It was over in 45 minutes. I loved going back to the 2nd school, more intimate.

  • Nadsam
    Nadsam

    What about Boring the "Pioneers with the Circuit Overseer" Saturday Afternoon meeting....there you saw the Pioneers kiss ass if they badly wanted to get into Bethel....my all time low point meeting was Saturday Morning Streetwork meeting...this was an embarrissing public meeting on a corner infront of everyone in town !!!!!!!!!!.

    One day a guy did some impromptu praying (he was asked not to again though)..however about two weeks later he just went ahead and did one of those sunday public talk prayers that last about 15 minutes there on the street. I nearly died standing there. I cringe today thinking we must have looked like those crackpots who wore sandwich boards and shouted "religion is a snare and a racket"

    Even worse was the Bethel Watchtower study meetings on Monday night...major boring with prepared answers that were pompous and lasting almost as long as those awful long prayers.

    I do agree with stillajwexelder that Elders meetings were probably the most pathetic. The first time you attend you expect to hear "secret dealings of the borg" thingy's however all it is , is a bunch of uneducated self righteous poops sucking up to each other, trying to interpret the bible and run peoples lives using their little green "shepard the flock" manual.

    All I can say about the above meetings is..."what a waste of time"!!

    Lurkers get out now , today , out of that cult boring borg..please

    Nadsam >>>>The Real deal APOSTATE'S FRIEND hehehe

  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    In order, worst first ;-

    Elders Meetings, they happened in MY time ! extra to the 5 meetings. My heart sank when the PO asked for "Five minutes" after the Thursday meeting.

    Service Meetings, How can you make an item interesting when it is the same as the one they heard every week since Rutherford died? and you were not supposed to depart from KM hardly at all....snoozeville to listen to...

    Public Talks .. For the reasons everyone has said already. Unless I was delivering it of course

    Watchtower Study .. Cruise through the first 2 or 3 paragraphs, make a comment then dream through the next 10 paras, comment again , then look forward to lunch and dream to the end

    Group Study. Although it varied. A lively bunch, a decent conductor and some half interesting material would be ok . Too often the conductor stifled rather than provoked discussion so few said much . At least it only took an hour.

    Theo School. Not too bad. Each segment was brief enough to be not boring. A lot of it was not done by elders so at least they were decent people for whom one felt a kinship and you wished them well. And it was mostly scriptural

    All in all, I would rather spend Meeting nights posting on JWD...

  • NewYork44M
    NewYork44M

    My least favorite was the WT study. The first thing I did was to see how many paragraphs there were. But even where there were less than 20, the conductor always found a way to drag the information to the maximum.

    Elders meetings were a drag, especially if they were after sitting through two hours of talks. However, the worst was when the CO was in town. He always had a prepared talk for the elders. So, besides the crap we had to endure we also had to listen to another talk......man I don't miss those days.

  • Joysome
    Joysome

    Public talk. Our meetings started at 9:30 for a while and I had the HARDEST time staying awake. Especially if we had a "dry" speaker.

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