Of The 5 Meetings, Was There One You Hated More Than The Others?

by minimus 46 Replies latest jw friends

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  NewYork44M

  In order of least hated to most hated:

  Service meeting - Sales meeting. But for a number of years I was in sales, so it was ok.

  Book study - the shortest meeting and sometimes you would get to sit in a comfy chair. This was the meeting where you would hear the most off the wall comments.

  Public Talk - depending on the speaker. Sometimes if the speaker was really bad, it was more bearable.

  TMS - I try to forget

  Watchtower - The first thing I would do would be to count the paragraphs and mentally note how long each paragraph should take. It was worse than Chinese water torture.
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  jaguarbass

  They were all bad, But the talk was the best if the speaker was good.
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  Vivamus

  Oh I liked the public speach the most. My mother and I would comment on the speaker, and that was mostly great fun for the both of us, since we both arrogantly think to be more intelligent than the speaker.

  And the wT gave me the opportunity to give the smart-ass answers. My contempt for the simple mindedness was mostly quite clear (at least to those who knew me).
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  Dorktacular

  I hated the Theocratic Ministry School. I listened to the same dolts year after year giving talks and not improving in any way. Hell, most of them couldn't even read at an adult level. If it truly was a "school" I would say that the class had over a 90% failure rate. I, for one, dropped out because I knew there was no way to "graduate" and no longer attend. I was giving better talks at 10 years old than most of the adults, so it was severly boring. It was one of the worst forms of punishment I was ever made to endure. I quit the theocratic ministry school and started attending a real school and got a couple of degrees. The public talks were the best, or the least of the worst. But, the public talk was only as good as the speaker. In our area, that meant that most of the public talks sucked pendulous donkey nut sack as well. In the end, spending time on the inside of a Kingdom Hall for any reason is time ill spent. The only way a Kingdom Hall meeting is interesting is if you're on drugs.
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  free2think

  I hated the service meeting the most, closely followed b the theocratic min school, soooooooo boring.

  Then the book study because i always felt enormous pressure to support my dad, and usually it was my mum and i doing the most answering.

  Then the public talk, again i used to watch the clock, sorry brother).

  Watchtower wasnt so bad because it would go very quickly when i was preparing to answer then i would daydream for the rest of it.
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  lovelylil

  I enjoyed some of the public talks and the book study. I hated the Watchtower study, theocratic ministry school and the service meeting was the worst. Lilly
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  Quandary

  For the last 5 years I HATE all of the meetings! Lately I find myself actually getting physically ill (stomach aches) about 2 hours prior to EACH meeting. Thank God my plan for an exit is soon to be realized.

  Q
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  changeling

  I think I'm the only person who hated the public talk the most. Is there somethiong wrong with me? That's retorical, don't feel obliged to answer.

  changeling
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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  Minimus

  The Service meeting was complete torture for me. I was inactive in field service and just listening to that made me want to get up and leave every week. It was stressed that anyone who didn't preach would not make it into the ''new world.''

  Placing selling old magazines and books was always stressed. Listening to the same sisters week after week give the same presentation finally drove me to completely stop attending the Ministry/service meeting. Calling little kids ''publishers'' made me finally realize that we were just a sales force to place sell literature for the WTS.
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  logic

  The question to me is like this, having both your eyes poked out with a red hot poker and then being asked which one hurt the most.The meetings to me were just a type of torture.