Moments at the District Assembly You'll Never Forget...

by integ 51 Replies latest jw friends

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  Robert7

  There was a virginity pep rally. The brother would say something along the lines of "will we stay clean and avoid fornication" then the crowd would say "YES!!!". Did it several times. I'm not arguing against fornication, but it was odd, and we all know that shouting this won't actually stop any teenager from doing what they were going to do anyway...
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  Dismembered

  Re: Moments at the District Assembly You'll Never Forget...

  I was in the middle of many a deep sleep, when those idiots applause woke me up & scared the spots off me.

  Dismembered
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  hillbilly

  I really think some the Sociey posts a outline for experiences and they find someone in the District or Circuit who is close in circumstance...then it gets scripted into a composite story to make whatever point they are going for.

  My mom studied with a work mate... by the time this story made the program it sounded like a mission to mars ...........

  ~Hill
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  oompa

  As a two-faced teenage do-gooder, I joked to the CO that we had "a lot of outstanding youth here at the covention.....problem is most of them are out standing in the halls during the session"........I thought it was funny, and he worked it into his introduction......told me he was going to use it at every convention that year.................oompa

  oh and I think it was a 1970's Pittsburg Int. ass. that some hardcore apostates stood at the entrances wearing HORSEBLINDERS so they could only look "straigh ahead", and a nut ran screaming onto the stadium field at Three Rivers. My dad starting booing.
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  dinah

  Oompa, you were single-handedly responsible for us bad kids having to go sit down and take a nap.
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  Tuesday

  My mother went on stage as an example for single mothers, she told in graphic detail about my father beating her for being a Jehovahs Witness and though she "stood firm". Later I found out my Father's resistance to her being a JW was learning the bible from scratch and trying to argue her out of it, that and lying to my mother saying he was bringing us to church when he was really bringing us to Dunkin Donuts. But yeah, that's always fun having everyone in six towns thinking you were part of an abusive family.
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  Plummet

  Ten to maybe twelve years ago at the two day circuit assembly, we were visiting friends in another circuit and making up a missed assembly. After the first question of the baptism talk someone in the audience yelled "NOOOOOOOO!" The speaker stopped and stared for what seemed like a good minute and then went on to the next question. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen at an assembly.
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  NewYork44M

  We had the same "I was addicted to internet porn" confession at our convention a year or two ago. I thought that the guy must really love Jehovah to confess and try to help others by spilling his guts. He was in my congregation.

  It is totally possible that these were "canned" presentations. I have know times where the circuit could not find the unique circumstances required to fit the setting and were forced to make up presentations. This was done without ever letting the audience know.
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  Tuesday

  Ten to maybe twelve years ago at the two day circuit assembly, we were visiting friends in another circuit and making up a missed assembly. After the first question of the baptism talk someone in the audience yelled "NOOOOOOOO!" The speaker stopped and stared for what seemed like a good minute and then went on to the next question. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen at an assembly.

  OMG were you in my district. That was me LOL. It was more than 12 years ago though, the basic story is that I got one of those mini-TV's from my father. It always annoyed me that I couldn't watch my Saturday Morning Cartoons, so one of my friends put in my head that I could get the small headphones that go in your ear and what I did was put one hand cupped to my ear the whole time so I could at least listen to the show. Around 11 was when Wrestling Superstars came on, which also co-incides with the baptism talk. I think it was a match with Battle Kat who was Brady Boone at the time, he was a really innovative wrestler and did alot of cool stuff. So I hear in Vince McMahon's gravely voice (he was doing commentary back then) "Oh My God, did you see that move! That was amazing! That was one of the most amazing moves I've ever seen in my life! You'll probably never see a move like that again!" To which I yelled "NooOOOOooooOOOOOoooOOOOOooo!!!" Freak timing, right as the questions were asked. Man did I get in trouble for that. I never did get my min-TV back.
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  5go

  When a young boy broke down, and cried because he made a mistake on his canned answer. He thought his dad was going to beat his butt till it turned red,white, and blue spank him.

  Yet another reason I am against corporal punishment.