Were You "Refreshed" After Going To Meetings & Assemblies? (page 3)

RollerDave

Never, Not once.

And getting ready, out the door, and there on time was like rubbing raw nerved with a 3M scratchy pad.

Hated it.

Glad I had that tooth pulled.

Roller

WTWizard

To tell the truth, I actually came back from the dentist after a root canal feeling more "refreshed" than after an assembly.

I usually came out of meetings feeling that I have learned nothing. They want ever more, and there are the death threats for anyone that didn't do just so. At best, I could do everything I was asked to and just miss getting into life, wasting all my efforts. When it was new to me, it was a bit better but only because I was learning. But once in, I felt no refreshment whatsoever. There have been times when I would have been better off had I been disfellowshipped!

The a$$emblies are torture. First, there are the sisters that I know won't want anything to do with me. There is the one family that always finds me (they are from my former congregation). And when with them, I feel like I am in prison. There is the repetition of the same bulls***. They highlight this as a foretaste of the "new" order, yet then they claim I can't use that as a guide about what the "new" order is going to be like. They tell me that the only part that matters is the instruction, and that anything else shouldn't matter. And, when I point out that I might as well not even bother going and that perhaps just putting the meetings online, they say that it wouldn't be the same. Yea right. At least I wouldn't be seeing all the sisters I'm not going to be able to meet. No, I was not disfellowshipped but I would have been better off if I was, since that way I wouldn't have to listen to the specious "logic" either.

Physically, it is hell. I am just about assured a headache at the end of an a$$embly day. I normally don't feel as drained after a long day at work! There have been times when I have had to go to work, work 8 hours, then go to the dentist for a root canal, and still felt better than I usually do after an a$$embly. And that was when I could get away with taking a nap! Having my captors sitting nearby would double the likelihood and severity of the headache. About the only way out of getting my headache is if there was a family with little kids that wanted to play with small items (pens, calculators, etc.) that I would bring in--at least that way, I had a little something to distract me from the a$$embly. And then they put a stop to that--and now they wonder why I haven't been to a day of an a$$embly since 2001.

codeblue

Sometimes....

minimus

If wasting your time is refreshing, then.....

free2think

Not really, although i never used to concentrate either.

caligirl

I don't ever remember feeling refreshed in any way. What I remember is impatiently waiting for the last person to leave after the book study because the TV was on before the screen door even snapped shut! Or on Sundays, all we thought about was getting home to the Sunday afternoon movies on the channel out of Boston (can't remember what it was at the moment) because Jerry Lewis or Doris Day were the people that had the job of providing "refreshement," not the long boring meetings. That one Sunday a month when we had to go in service instead of right home were PURE TORTURE!

keyser soze

There was nothing more refreshing than a warm Shasta cola on a 90 degree day. Mmm.

minimus

The WBTS must have Shasta or something.

compound complex

Hey, Minimouse!

NO. Too much doom and gloom. Well, now that that's to be excised during the public talk, it might tend to cheer things up a bit, d'ya reckon?

CoCo

drew sagan

I'm going to make a bet that most who have been raised in JWs are all of the ones posting that the never where encouraged by the conventions and assemblies.

It seems that those who join by choice (like myself) really liked these things while we where excited by the religion, but that if you've had it all your life it was never really that special to you.

Don't know if this is true or not, but curious if it is.

Were You "Refreshed" After Going To Meetings & Assemblies?

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