ANYTHING EXCITING EVER HAPPEN AT YOUR KINGDOM HALL?

by anewme 99 Replies latest jw friends

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  pmouse

  I remember sitting in the hall with one of the "primo" members of the congo sitting right in front of us. Their teenage son was my age and apparently whispered something smart mouthed into his mother's ear during the middle of the public talk. She hauled off and slapped him across the face so fast that I jumped in my chair.

  The remainder of the congo jumped too because the sound was so loud. He continued to look straight ahead, but his face and the back of his neck turned the darkest shade of red and stayed that way for the duration of the meeting.

  That was gossip fodder for weeks to come and vanquished any inklings of courtship between us from my mother's point of view.
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  Tyrone van leyen

  Ever wonder if the f word was ever used on the podium during a talk. Well it happened in my kingdum hall with my cousin's talk. It was Only his third or fourth talk ever and he hated every minute of it. His talk wasn't going well and he screwed up in his notes and said "FUCK" right into the microphone. Amazingly not a single word was ever said to him about it, but I can tell you flatly, the congregation was stunned.

  There was one memorial where a chap named Vlad was crying out and moaning, like he had received holy spirit and was annointed. He had to be removed.

  During the watchtower, some nutbar was asked a question on what we can do to improve our lot in life and he answered the question as per watchtower form and then at the end of his comment stated that additionallly it would be helpful to tie magnets around our heads and sleep facing North. He also said that if anyone wanted to see him afterwards about buying a magnet he was available. I know of two people who actually bought one.
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  anewme

  Well this has turned out to be a very popular thread! We all have so many stories to tell of bizzarro moments at the Kingdom Hall!
  
  CONFUSA------- I guess Gossipy has yet to face her Karma!
  
  And Hoochie already got hers!
  
  Thats not the first story Ive heard of a young brother bringing the microphone into the
  restroom....good grief!!!! Good thing that's all he did in there!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PMOUSE---------- Sweet sad little story, thankyou.
  
  
  TYRONE----------You've got a style to your writing young man! Very funny! I have wondered if anyone
  ever said the f word at the hall. Now I know!!! Too funny!!!!!!
  
  But the story of the magnet man was GREAT!!!!! GOOD STORY AND WELL WRITTEN!!
  I adore a good laugh! Save that story just as you have related it!
  And the funniest part was when the witnesses came up to him afterwards to buy some!!!!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  C'mon, dont be shy, you know a story and you want to tell it!
  
  TELL US YOUR FUNNY, EMBARRASSING, SHOCKING STORY!!!!
  
  
  Anewme
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  Frank75

  I'd like to point out that it is wise not to name names in our posts about former incidents and people.
  It could be taken as slander. If you have time, you might go back and edit any names you have used that make the person appear in a bad light. Telling a story is one thing, hurting a person's name is another.
  Just a suggestion.

  If that was aimed at me I understand the concern. However it would not be slander but rather libel as per the following definition:

  Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

  First of all the comments made are true and are verifiable through living eyewitnesses, so therefore do not constitute slander/libel. They are also minor incidents from the teenage years.

  Now on the other hand if I mentioned that many thought he was gay, some even rumored that he frequented Gay Bars and wondered why he REALLY moved to San Francisco, now that would be an attack on the person that is, as far as I know, untruthful.

  I wouldn't do that!

  Frank75
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  nsrn

  This is not very exciting, but at the time was a Kodak moment. I was sitting in the meeting, wiggling a loose tooth, and it came out, flew over Sister H's head and landed on the floor. I dropped to my knees and did a frantic military crawl under the seats to retrieve it, because that tooth was worth a quarter! Got in trouble, of course, for misbehaving.

  (There is no tooth fairy, of course, but my mom always swapped the tooth for a quarter in the night).

  I don't remember this, but I am told that once while being dragged to the bathroom for another spanking, I was yelling, "DON'T HIT ME AGAIN! PLEASE DON'T HIT ME AGAIN!" which produced an even worse spanking. This story is still told proudly by my mom.

  After I left, there was an elderly guest speaker from a nearby town who slumped and died at the podium. My mom said everyone remained respectfully in their seats while the 'brothers' did cpr, and the ambulance came. Then they had the watchtower study. That's hard to believe.
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  Frank75

  We were just married and our 2nd or 3rd meeting in a new congregation the WT study was dealing with whatever and the question centered on physical abuse in the home. This guy who I recall was a limo driver and his wife never looked you in the eye and was always blinking her eyes rapidly were sitting in the back and his hand shoots straight up. He is called on after a few heartfelt comments. He grabs the microphone and starts saying that he knows "it is wrong to hit your wife but sometimes they deserve it"........the hall was just silent, not a word, peep or breath it seemed for an eternity. Then the conductor snapped at his general direction, "THERE IS NEVER, NEVER EVER A REASON FOR A MAN TO STRIKE A WOMAN, LEAST OF ALL HIS WIFE". Then he moved on to the next paragraph.

  Little did we know at the time that it was actually common in the "trufe" for husbands to physically abuse their wives. In fact years later we found out that the PO in a neighboring congregation had been beating his wife black and blue around her breasts so no one could see the bruising.

  Many suspected something wasn't right, but most thought she was the crazy one. Like Julia Roberts straightening the cans of soup and the bath towels in sleeping with the enemy.

  It came to light when their son and his new wife (a friend of ours who left the JW's over it) moved into the basement apartment. She heard things smashing, yelling and what sounded like someone was getting the shit kicked out of them. Her husbands (the son) response was to "just mind your own business and keep out of it". She then worked up the nerve and went and told the other elders about it but they refused to do anything because it was quote, "inappropriate to look at a sisters bared breasts". Believe it or not! Flabbergasted she then went to the police and they arrested the whack job.

  A neighbor commented to the police that he had been slugging her around for the whole 20 years they lived next door. (obviously didn't think to report it)

  The daughter in law was threatened by the elders that if she went to the cops they would DF her. Her reply as she left the meeting? "Don't bother because I DA myself" and she walked out on the JW's and left her pussy husband and never looked back.

  Frank75
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  confusa

  Wow! Scandalous! What happened with the wife and the son later on?
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  anewme

  Frank you DO have many stories to tell! How many years were you a slave? I have gone back to enjoy many of your old posts. You write very well. You have experienced a lot of dirt in the WTS.
  No wonder you left.
  
  
  Anybody else have anything to share???
  
  
  
  
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  Gregor

  Once during the service meeting a young sister came out of the restroom and approached an elder sitting on the isle. She bent down and whispered in his ear. He jumped up and went to the back and grabbed another elder. They went outside and caught a 15 year old witness kid standing on a landscaping rock looking into the tiny window above the terlit in the womens room. This kid had problems. I could write a whole thread about this strange duck and his family. "Deliverance" couldn't top it.

  Ironically, a few years later my grandmother fainted in her seat during the public talk. It was not unusual for her to faint but it was always upsetting. The sister next to her caught my eye and started waving at me and my two uncles, her sons. She was in the fourth seat from the isle. I got to her first and picked her up like a rag doll backed out of the isle and walked quickly to the womens room which had a small lounge with a little sofa. I burst into the room and the young sister mentioned above in the peeping tom incident was setting there breast feeding her baby. She was so startled she let her breast pop out of the baby's mouth and exposed her entire titty ( and a lovely titty it was). Grandma was ok but I think that young sister didn't feel too secure in the KH womens room for a long time.
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  jws

  At the kingdom hall, I remember the PO giving a talk once and a loud fart erupted. He just kept right on going without missing a beat while the congregation tried to hold back laughter.

  I remember one guy who was getting up there in age. You never knew what he was going to say when he commented. I think I remember him saying "shit", "damn", and the racial N-word. I think they stopped calling on him.

  I remember the boys in the 10-14 year old range fighting outside after meetings.

  The basement of our hall flooded once and they couldn't hold the second ministry school.

  I remember a district convention once where, during lunch, a woman was outside running around screaming. It turned out a bee had flown into her ear.

  I've been reading some good stories. Unfortunately, most of the meetings were as boring as the talks for me.