LEAST FAVORITE MEETING (page 4)

Doubtfully Yours

ALL!!! I dislike them ALL!!!

The Sunday Public Talk is the one I care a tiny little bit for.

DY

fraidycat9

If I could pick one and only one, it would be the "Theocratic-Ministry-School-Service-Meeting-BookStudy-PublicTalk-WatchtowerStudy" (Hope I captured them all).

Special K

thursday evening meetings..

Kingdom Hall was a long ways away.. tired.. school in the morning......It took all evening and when we got home it was time for bed...........

SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOZEY....

special k

franklin J

As a kid I HATED the book study. It was held in our home and I had to sit still for one hour in my own playroom. Torture for a child.

As a young adult I really believed all the "nonsense" that came out of the platform. I dutifully did all my meeting preparation; and consientiously did what I was told. I was literally the young leader JW.

sorry to be the odd ball here; I really did believe it all . ( WHAM!!!).....and I never saw it coming.....

Sassy

I never liked the bookstudy. There was more pressure to participate and if you didn't get a chance to prestudy, people sitting close to you that could easily see if your book was studied or not

doodle-v

i think the worst had to be the tms and service meeting because 1, it was at night when all my favorite shows were on. Also, when I was in highschool it was miserable because i would never have any time to get my homework done. I had to study for the meeting after school or prepare for a talk and then go to the meeting, sit for what seemed like an eternity and then come home exahusted and try to stay up for three or more hours to finish my homework or study for an exam. bleh!!!

There was a thread recently about how many hours we think we may have spent in service.

well guys how many hours do you think you've wasted attending meetings??

Doodle-V

got my forty homey?

I remember I hated our Sunday meetings because they were at 6PM on Sundays because our hall had like 4 congo's using the hall. So I use to miss Ripleys believe it or not, the orginal with Jack Palance and his lovely daugter Heather. I loved that TV show and I think I probably learned more in one hour of this show than two hours of the public bore fest!

czarofmischief

I remember this one sister used to wear short skirts and when she was up on the platform for the number 3 talk I saw... well, it was like Heaven to a 13 year old who had never even seen a dirty magazine.

But that would be the only time I ever enjoyed the TMS. I liked giving talks, though, but my brain which liked to reason things out actually started to draw conclusions that caused severe problems for a dubbie. I preferred #4 talks to #2, I mean, trying to draw some modern meaning out of the building requirements for the Ark of the Covenant???? Yeesh. And listening to other talks was torture. Some speakers were so bad, others obviously didn't care, and others were up there saying stuff that I KNEW was in contradiction to published Society dogma, let alone common sense. Like that the Big Bang was analogous in ludicrosity to a bomb that built houses.

Hey, franklin j, I'm with you buddy. I never saw it coming either. I was diffed for 2 years and still blaming myself and not the inadequacies of the belief structure.

CZAR

fader

They all sucked.

Bookstudy aka "let's read the same book two to three times, pause after every paragraph and repeat certain sentences."

Watchtower Study: see bookstudy minus book part.

Service Meeting: "all of you suck. Go out in Field Service more."

Public Talk: "yes, I'm illiterate and don't have any real training, but I'm going to talk to you anyway"

TMS: only one with a tiny bit of redeeming value. I actually learned some things there that I could apply to real life.

ozziepost

The "Watchtower Study" in most congregations is just plain boring.

When you think about it, what on earth could be interesting in having a whole congregation listen to paragraphs read and people rehash the "main points"???? The format's wrong. Methinks there is an acknowledgment of this in its reduced time during the C.O. visit.

Cheers, Ozzie

LEAST FAVORITE MEETING

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