by SacrificialLoon 36 Replies latest jw friends
The secret is that JWs only use a small portion of scriptures in their material. After 30 or more years of hearing them over and over, I knew what they said.
That would be an interesting research subject. How many actual scriptures do the dubs use? Is it the same 90 or so all the time?
Hell Para,
That's just really,really sad.
Thanks for digging up painful memories,
Nvr
Yea...I was one of the fast looker uppers...
After I got married it drove my wife nuts. She thought she was fast, but I beat her 9 times out of 10.
As proud as I was of being able to look up scriptues quickly, I was just as embarrassed when I couldn't find a scripture. Those darn hard to find books like Habbakuk or Obadiah always tripped me up. The scripture would already been read by the time I found it.
Whenever I realized that I wasn't going to find the scripture, I would just leave my Bible open as if I did find it. If it was a hard to find book that I knew I would have trouble with, I wouldn't even bother looking...I pretended to be reading ahead in the WT or whatever else we were studying.
/sigh
Yes, I did that too. God I wish I didn't have to remember that. Right smug self-righteous little bastard I was.
quicker scripture looker uppers
and quicker scripture picker uppers
lmao - sounds ripe for an invention,
let's make something we'll make millions
and can finally fight the borg!
some sort of palm pilot at the hall LOL
this would also be a lot lighter on the bookbag... and if they're internet connectable...easier on the faders to be able to get their JWD fix WHILE AT the meetings. :)
Oh, and woe to the person still looking up the scripture when the reader started, for they would get a withering barrage of mental tsks from me! Unless they were sitting beside me then I'd have to show them the page number... while still getting a barrage of mental tsks.
hahaha, yeah I think I sat next to you once,
The whole bible speed search thing drove me crazy, I usually just didn't bother. I would keep notes though, so nobody called me on it, writing the scripture down was equivalent to looking it up, or maybe even a little more spiritual?
I remember one CO that had the bad habit of anouncing the scripture backwards. he would open his bible and while searching for the scripture he would say,
"in the second verse,(pause) of the third chapter,(pause) of John"
by the time he said "John" he had found the scripture in his bible and immediatly began reading. I kind of got the impression that he enjoyed his silly little game. Maybe it was his way of always being first??
yes i did this too!even though i was a 'slacker' i used to get a kick out of beating the 'proper' jws!Sometimes though if it was a hard to find book, i'd have to look it up at the front to see what where to find it, that was embarrassing. Wow blondie you must have a good memory remembering all the books like that!When i was 15 i won merit points in RE at school for being the quickest in the class to be able to say theNT books in order- wasn't a jw then though. My sister taught me a song to help me remember them all - got it stuck in my head now!
Once I wasn't looking up the scriptures. Afterwards, a brother remarked on it. I said I only looked up the ones that I couldn't quote what they said without looking. Taken aback, he quizzed me on 3 and was stunned that I knew what they said.
HAHA!!!....in his FACE!!!!...
