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

by minimus 53 Replies latest jw friends

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  keyser soze

  I'd say you're pretty much dead-on Drew.
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  anewme

  REFRESHED?????
  
  I started to come home and NEED A DRINK after the meetings!!!!
  
  
  Does that tell you something?
  
  
  I felt miserable and unhappy and had the persistent nagging thought that I was wasting my life.
  
  
  
  
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  codeblue

  When it was "refreshing" it wasn't a waste of time.

  There were plenty of times it wasn't refreshing. Like when they said college was only for pioneers. That pissed me off.

  When they came out with the Proclaimers Book and only those who had been baptized for 25 years could get one...I was pissed off again.

  Yes, there were many times the same thing was rehashed and sitting there was fruitless. Oh yeah...I can think of more negative things that weren't refreshing... The list can go on.

  But in all fairness, there were a few refreshing meetings and assemblies....
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  sspo

  I always felt assemblies were a waste of our time.

  Circuit assembly is nothing more than " double sunday meeting" considering and 1.5 / 2 hr lunch.

  District assemblies once again a waste, 3 days of same old things and spending hundreds of dollars

  to attend.

  Primarily to hear how great the GB is and what they are doing for you.
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  minimus

  I used to get my refreshing drink after the meetings too. Needed it!
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  exwitless

  there on time was like rubbing raw nerved with a 3M scratchy pad.

  That's a good way to describe how we always felt after every DC.

  I never felt refreshed. I felt physically and mentally exhausted the entire time I was there. I never felt uplifted; only guilty that I wasn't studying enough, that I didn't have 100% meeting attendance, that I only got 10 hours of field service in a month (never mind that I suffered terribly from an undiagnosed sleep disorder and worked full time).

  I always felt like the DCs were a sharp reminder of what I could be doing better at. I never felt any sort of encouragement whatsoever.

  I couldn't have felt good about myself after someone would give an experience of a single sister who had no arms, only one leg, had 10 kids whom she home schooled despite the fact she worked 3 jobs and pioneered 120 hours a month; plus she had to walk on her one leg 15 miles to the KH in crocodile-infested rivers upstream both ways. (By the way, she never missed a meeting, was never late, and never got a drop of water on her thoroughly studied WT.)

  OK, ok, I'm exaggerating, but that's how those experiences made me feel.
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  minimus

  Guilt---- that's what it's all about!
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  MinisterAmos

  I went to a neighboring DC that I had a brief part in about two weeks ago. Farking terrible! Reminded me of the walking dead all the Bros and Sisters trying so hard to find something interesting to focus on.
  
  The bright spot was when I walked past the ladies' toilet and found that the Brothers had left the doors propped open with chocks. I'm not completely sure why they were open, but everyone who walked by could look in the open doors and see rows of Sisters from the knees down seated on the toilets in the stalls.
  
  I was like "WTF?" because obviously I was not the only one with eyes seeing all those granny panties, but I was the only one with an independant enough spirit who demanded that the doors be closed for the remainder of the 3 days.
  
  I was never "refreshed" only pissed off and more pissed off.
  
  I remember giving my 2Y/O a break and carrying her into the lobby of the theatre at another conv. Obviously the Bros chase you out for the slightest disturbance so we went, well, TO THE LOBBY duh! We walked around a bit to burn off the excess energy and boredom and sure enough, one of the d*cks followed us FROM INSIDE THE THEATRE TO THE LOBBY and said "you can't walk here".
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  minimus

  My mom virtually stopped going to the assemblies when the attendants told her she couldn't sit in the handicapped area in the front because they decided to rope it off. She'd have to walk all the way in the back! She couldn't so volunteered to take her home. We left and that was her last assembly a few years ago.
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  LearningToFly

  Not refreshed.. drained from manically trying to write down every single word spoken in my rather large notebook!