by WTWizard 32 Replies latest jw experiences
They get lamer and lamer by the year. You always seem to run into people you don't want to talk to. Then those assclowns with the "Please Keep Moving" signs really piss me off.
Yeah. Not much to look forward to. And every year they cut off something new. It's becoming more cost-effective, more streamlined. It's a smart move for a publishing corporation.
He goes on his merry way with a full belly of Lucky Charms and a pb & j sandwich which he considers kindergarten food to go and fill up at his satanic food at the proper time dc
Carla, tell your JW that Honesty likes him already and he's not even an exJW..... yet
hehehe, he is not up on a lot of no-no's for jw's! But we are! we amuse ourselves to see what he will or will not do. yeah, I know, simple pleasures and all that... either that or I am just plain mean, I suppose if that's as mean as I get (buying Lucky Charms) he isn't in any real danger at the moment.
DCs are nothing but 'sales meetings' to generate more money for the bank. It's always about the bottom line. And of course, to promote new memberships. I always feel sorry for Bible studies because they get fear mongered into making the big plunge to avoid 'dying in Armaggedon.'
Kind of like a multi-level marketing scheme for literature sales isn't........opps I spoke " The Truth "
It has to be realized and acknowledged that there indeed people making a living off this !
Wait the GB has a hidden Agenda? Say it isn't so!!!!
I can't remember anything about any talks I ever heard. What a difference the Truth makes.
Bluesbreaker59 -- You've hurt my feelings. I was one of those lame Bethel speakers at the DC. Hey, I did the best I could with the lame crap they gave me to work with. And do you know how hard it is to read the manuscript talks that have backward masking? Uh-huh, yeah, if you get a recording and play it backwards, I was really saying, "donate every cent you've got... don't have children... bring your lunch...contribute all your savings..." It took months of brain numbing practice to get that right. (Okay, just kidding about the backward masking.)
I must confess, I didn't quite make it to every day of the DC this year. And Jehovah didn't strike me dead for it, so it must be okay.
And I must confess that I didn't distribute a single invitation to the DC this year. Duh, an invitation campaign to a JW hypnosis session 2 hours away with impossible parking. I don't understand that idea.
And the themes that go something like "Lovers of Godly Divine Love" District Convention. Isn't this next year's theme "Lovers of Hidden Pedophiles" District Convention. Yeah, if you're going, take pepper spray.
District Assemblies Not All They are Cracked Up to Be. I know in my district it looked like the ghetto BET awards. i could remember some brothers dressing up like pimps w/flashy crocodile shoes and those big huge sunglasses that just cover up ur eyebrows and the sister were wearing tricked out hairstyles and short dresses w/cleavage showing. i never could make new friends at the assembles b/c there were entourage of groupies and VIPs to walk to the Mcdonalds eh Whatever??
Shock horror I have great early memories of assemblies. As my mother did not often go to meetings (for a plethora of reasons) she managed to organise herslef for the memorial and the assmbly. Now the memorial can be quite boring but the district assembly was good. In Melbourne in the old days they were at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, usually in the main arena and the foreign language assemblies were held in other buildings and on the SUnday afternoon they would all walk into the arena so we could all see the increase. I would get pretend money (remember the tokens)and I remember the food being great (it was in those days) and I do believe there was ice cream as well. As we never really went to meetings so I had no friends at the hall, and I was allowed school friends but no bir thdays, christmas, and I had to get the stupid 'No Blood transfusions' on school excursion forms, the assemblies were a bit intoxicating. And I liked to sing. It was even better if nana was there. Then (due to the increase I presume!) we went to the Entertainment Centre. I think Melbourne was divided into 2 or 3 districts. This was the age where I bought 3 or 4 outfits (depended on if it was a 3 or 4 day assembly) which was planned for weeks with friends of mine. The gelati trucks were out the front and if it was a nice day you could go across the road to the Yarra. The food was getting crap but it was still edible. Then it was the Tennis Centre and we were back to one assembly, we were on the main court, and on relfection it was not great. The food went really down hill and I used to get claustrophobic in there, I would quite literally have to walk out and sit outside, and no the brothers did not open the roof. I was still buying new outfits for each day an depending on the group I was with it was either Lygon Street for dinner or the Pancake Parlour or Sizzler whatever took our fancy. I can understand that it was to dissmenate information but it always reminded me of the the BBQ at Tara, in Gone with the wind, you know everyone meeting, greeting, eating and checking each other clothes out and the fact that it was completely sexist like the antebellum south before the civil war. And checking out who was with who, who got married, who broke up, who had babies, all that stuff that makes the world turn. There was this guy I adored and I remember at one assembly I was crying as the sister I studied with, her and her husbnad had been assigned to a circuit in WA and he said to me'DOnt cry I cannot do anyhting for you with all these people around.' At another assembly He said to me 'Feel my new suit, its microfibre'. This is what my early love life was made of.... Oh...I also like to start the clapping!
