Making out with a cute hot sister from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in my VW Bug during sessions at a Circuit Assy in London, Ontario in 1972. Wish I could remember her name . . .
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Moments at the District Assembly You'll Never Forget...
by integ 51 Replies latest jw friends
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oneairhead
I usually heard about some folks that security caught screwing in the parking lot, in a car or elsewhere. Imagine you two are on the down
stroke and a brother comes up behind you and says "brother we need to talk, "step away from that intoxicating hind and let me see, uh I mean
pull up your pants and lets go to a situation room so you can be automatically df'ed.
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TD
In the early 1970's, at a DC in Phoenix, someone had the bright idea of hanging a model of Jehovah's "Chariot" over the stage. (Ezekiel's wheels within wheels.)
This model included a paper mache globe that was about 10 feet in diameter and easily weighed 400 pounds. The chariot hung over the earth and the whole contraption was hanging right over the speaker's head.
It violently came down right after the morning session on the first day. No one got hurt, but it scared the bejesus out of everybody
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SacrificialLoon
When I was a kid at a district assembly I was figeting with a bbq sauce packet from a roast beef sandwich, and it ended up going all over a sister in the row behind me.
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wha happened?
my very first circuit assembly.
A person who had been disrupting various assemblies apparently snuck in despite pictures of him were around for security. He's spotted and the brothers move everyone that is sitting around him so he's now sorrounded. He satys put doesn't say or do a thing. At closing prayer he stands up and starts shouting. The brothers grab him and start to lead him out. Then, out of nowhere, this big brother gets up, charges and take the guy out along with a few others with a tackle that would have made an football fan proud. The guy gets up and punches one of the brothers. The brother tries to punch back and is held back. Police are called and he is led out. -
The Lone Ranger
If you guys think its humiliating to talk about being a addicted to porn is bad, what about this 30yo guy who stood up in front of about 500 people at an assembly and told everyone how he was addicted to masturbation !!! Yes folks masturbation! I didn’t know the guy and I was embarrassed just being in the same Hall as that nut. Of course by prayer God helped him to stop ( probably till he got home at least )
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Hortensia
a lot of that stuff was puke-making. I volunteered in first aid for years - there was always something going on, and people to talk to, and we got points for volunteering, too, and I didn't have to listen to any of that dreck.
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Forscher
For me the most memorable moment was,
1978 at the Superdome in New Orleans, LA. It was the last of the years the regular "international assemblies" were held. I was thinking of applying to Bethel. I bumped into this old brother I knew from my district back home and he talked me out of it. He recommended that I go to college instead. When I objected on the grounds of current WTBTS policies on higher education. "Brother," he told me, "the Society sends people to college when it suits their purposes, and just who do you think really pays for their education?" "If they don't mind spending the money they get from our contributions on sending people all the way through law or engineering school, why shouldn't you go to college yourself and reap the benefits of such an education."
Well, I didn't take his advise right away, but I did eventually go. That wasn't the only thing he told me that day, he did tell me what Bethel life was really like. And the ex-bethelites here have confirmed what he told me those thirty years ago. In some ways it was probably the most profitable assembly I ever went to, even if I wasn't really quite ready for the seeds that old brother planted back then.
There are other stories. After all I did attend assemblies for thirty years and worked in about every department in some capacity, except administration and accounting which pretty much require holding a position as elder or ministerial servant to work in. But that one is the most memorable.
Forscher
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Alana
Snakes & Calico......LOL.....I was also at that Springfield IL convention where Noah never saw it rain (and it was pouring on him).....that was so funny and we laughed about that for years. My dad was in charge of the First Aid department, which was the only part air conditioned, so my friends and I tended to 'visit' alot there. They had closed circuit TV and we could chill out on a cot, until real 'patients' came in. Oh the memories. I remember storms, heat, wind, and all kinds of weather, but, again, with my dad I got to escape alot. :-) I remember at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati that the First Aid dept was down by the locker rooms.....so I got to wander through there and see Pete Rose's stuff and other cool things underneath the stadium. Before the Circuit Assembly Hall was built in Romeoville, we had an Assembly Hall up on Ashland Avenue in Chicago.....it was an old theatre.....my dad worked in the accounting department then and it was up in the old organ lofts of the theatre and we would help out in there and then sit out on the fire escape sometimes during the sessions. As you can tell, I was a pretty good at volunteering and escaping the sessions. Of course, I could also escape without volunteering.....like when I went with a friend and her family to a big district convention up in Green Bay, WI......we worked in the food area (back when there was big cafeteria style meals) outdoors....then, we happened to wander on over to the practice field next door while the Packers were practicing. That was really cool, and I wasn't even into football back then! So many were getting distracted that they made an announcement that we should not leave the convention to go over there during sessions and that parents should be aware of where their kids were at....so my friend's dad came out to look for us....fortunately he wasn't the most zealous and he just joined us! LOL
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oompa
I hate to admit this, but at a CO I was the one who confessed to watching the Excorcist and having my hand on the off button but being unable to turn it off (demons right?) OOMPA