Are you allowed to fall asleep at the meetings now??

by stillAwitness 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  Saoirse

  Typical WT cult propaganda. You must be at all the meetings, no matter what. No concern for a tired, overworked individual getting into a car accident. No concern for the people he might injure or kill on the highway. And no concern for someone spreading an illness to others.

  remember a sister who believed such a thing and brought her children to the meeting with chicken pox.

  Anyone who would force a severely ill child to go out in public and sit through a meeting should be flogged, given a hysterectomy and have her children taken away. What a sorry excuse for a mother.
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  Think

  To woman:Thank you for com plimet

  This IS MY LIFE, I follow intructions only from "TRUE SOURCE of wisdom"

  and sacrifice my life to educate the world about comind "NEW Light",

  because they must die forever, I mean live forever, if the WT allow that.

  I mean, I have to ask Elders , what to say now, because they have wisszdoms to, to heal the sick sheeps, because they are toe wlfes in skin, I mean the also 3 sheeps to heal the sick ones, by ds the quicly to help the recover quicly, I mean I preach only what the elders told me is there in the bible, and I cant read by myself bible, because the wolfes, I mean sheps tolm me that i will die if i do that again.

  But I want you tio live on paradise on Mar$ too with the wolfe, I meas sheeps with out brains so we can eat, rape them,.. I mean what they said, I never said that..

  they lied all the time, I mean they laid, get lied somethimes to protect the pedofile, money, I mean the sheeo to slaughter them later..

  Please wait for corretions in new WT on 20087 ad year, there will be more "new Light"
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  undercover

  I remember everyone bringing their sniffling (or is it sniveling ) kids to the hall for every meeting. All winter, every winter, all the kids stayed sick. All they did was pass one virus after another to every other kid in the hall.

  If parents would have used common sense instead of towing the company line they could have kept their kids home, warm and dry, they could keep from spreading germs all over the place.

  I know a JW who had a baby last year and the baby was only 3-4 weeks old and they were bundling it up to take him to the hall in cold, wet weather. Not only was it not a good idea to take the baby out in that weather, taking him to a hall full of germs wasn't too bright either.
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  diamondblue1974

  An elder in the hall I attended used to regularly fall asleep and was reknowned for it; he would often sit back in his chair so it looked like he was awake but everyone knew he was asleep really, the snoring sometimes did give it away!

  I got counselled for falling asleep in the meeting once (yes you guessed it by the same elder); I laughed and asked whether he was aware of the other times I had fallen asleep and he replied that he wasnt. He wasnt right impressed when I said it was probably because he was asleep at the time and wasnt paying attention.

  Never was very popular with the local body of elders!

  DB74
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  whyamihere

  I have to tell this story........

  I was a cocktail waitress, and I had to work all hours of the night. Anyway, it was a Sunday morning meeting, I did not get home until 6am...I got off of work at 1am(went to a party). Anyways, I was trying to be good, maybe praying for forgiveness on what I may have done the night before.(lol) So there I was passed out during the Watchtower study. I was in such a deep sleep where I was completely hunched over. My wonderful loving brothers who didn't care to prop me up, thought it was more fun just to watch me. Anyway I fell over, and dropped on the floor. I woke up all of a sudden and said "Jesus Christ"...pretty loud.

  My one brothers got up and ran out laughing. I sat there and acted as if nothing happened. Smiled the whole time. Hey I got in a power Nap!

  Brooke
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  Bumble Bee

  In the early '90's we had a really hard core DO (sorry can't remember his name). He was pretty upset at a CA that people were falling asleep and YELLED into the mic for people to wake up, while he slammed his fist on the podium! I can tell you I almost had a heart attack and I wasn't asleep! He hammered it in to us how disrespectful it was to be asleep at the meetings and assemblies.

  Isn't amazing how things can change over the years?

  BB
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  diamondblue1974

  I was a cocktail waitress, and I had to work all hours of the night. Anyway, it was a Sunday morning meeting, I did not get home until 6am...I got off of work at 1am(went to a party). Anyways, I was trying to be good, maybe praying for forgiveness on what I may have done the night before.(lol) So there I was passed out during the Watchtower study. I was in such a deep sleep where I was completely hunched over. My wonderful loving brothers who didn't care to prop me up, thought it was more fun just to watch me. Anyway I fell over, and dropped on the floor. I woke up all of a sudden and said "Jesus Christ"...pretty loud.

  My one brothers got up and ran out laughing. I sat there and acted as if nothing happened. Smiled the whole time. Hey I got in a power Nap

  LMFAO!

  Your a woman after my own heart!
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  FairMind

  I never sleep at the meetings but I do close my eyes and rest deeply.
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  jojochan

  Every time that I went I fell asleep. Come to think of it, I think the whole audience is sleep in some form or anither, one example of this is when my brother once read the paragraphs for the sunday w.t study , towards the end he skipped by accident paragraph 18. I was so stunned that no one not even the conductor noticed. That also got me to think," If this soooo true, why would we be falling asleep?"

  To this day I still bug him for it and says he is part of the "evil slave class". But thanked him for doing that.lol..

  jojochan.
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  delilah

  Sleeping is allowed but snoring and falling out of the chair are out. Blondie, there was a brother in my old congregation who did this once. We all laughed our heads off....he regularly fell asleep during every meeting. They also had a big comfy chair in the back, supposedly for a sister with back problems. Well, if she didn't happen to show up for a meeting, there was a bee line to sit in it. Usually whoever was lucky to get the chair, fell asleep in it.