Did you enjoy being a JW meetings,field service ect??

by karter 41 Replies latest jw experiences

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  karter
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  karter

  Sorry pushed the enter to soon. I was regular at meetings got board sometimes with boaring speckers. Watchtower i was regular at answering (in my own woards). field services Not so hot. I enjoyed giving talks. What about you?
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  horrible life

  I hated it from a very young age. I remember hiding mom's keys, in the bathroom, under the towels. Sometimes it worked, and we were too late to go. Other times, she turned into a real monster and I would always find them. I was very, very young. About 5-6 years old. My dad wouldn't come in totally, until I was about 6. He would be at work.

  I hated going to the doors, and seeing a classmate.

  I hated giving talks.

  I hated getting up on Saturdays, and all summer.

  I hated wearing dresses and skirts to my knees. Tried hiking up my skirts when I would get to school, but Philip Reese told on me. Bet he is at Bethel. Mr. rightous.

  I am miffed now, I am going to bed. Good Night all!!
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  WTWizard

  The boasting sessions were a complete waste of time after about a year, since I was seeing them recycle the same refried cat sxxx. The only thing that made it worth going was one family, whose children I often got to watch (in front of the parents--no hanky panky going on there). They (especially the youngest) were quite into exploring things, and were very active. Often I would lead them around and let them play with calculators, paper, and colored pens I brought just for them. That is, until the lead hounder started making rules to methodically cut that off (and this lead hounder, I wonder if he was an abuser or just envious). After that, boasting sessions were no longer worth going to.

  Field circus? That was in the days before Starbucks, so the main things I enjoyed about it was when things went wrong. Fogging up the windows, letting them drive by a street or house when I kept my big mouth shut, sudden rain or snow, working a whole street and not finding a single interested person, and having a party in the territory where I could hear rap music (with swearing) from the whole street was about it. I never actually liked placing anything, and I didn't even want a Washtowel study.
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  yknot

  Yea totally, until the 80's clampdown. Gotta give my first KHs Brothers props.......they indoctrinated me extremely well. Too well in fact!

  At 6 years of age the WTS and I started 'standing apart', by 9 years old I was fully a diehard reformist ........like I said "too well in fact".

  But despite a bad reputation & KH marking I 'waited on Jehovah' until last August (blinders fell from my eyes), because I was a good lil' Dubette.

  I am thrilled to know they are phonies!
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  Reefton Jack

  There was a time when I thought that there must be something wrong with me:
  
  After all:
  - everyone said that meetings; and particularly assemblies; were "upbuilding."
  - everyone said that the only worthwhile activity on this whole planet was hawking WT literature door to door(and that nothing else could remotely approach it in giving a person such a sense of satisfaction
  and so forth and so forth and so forth!!!)
  
  For a long time, I thought that there must have been a point somewhere that I was missing - as I felt none of those things.
  (There was, in fact, a point I was missing all-right; just not the one I imagined, and it took me 28 years to catch onto that one!)
  
  
  So, no - I enjoyed none of it.
  
  Jack
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  Mickey mouse

  Jack: they all lie.
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  MissingLink

  Always hated them. The last 2 years I was attending I honestly would have preferred going to the dentist than the KH.
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  White Dove

  I usually approached it like those few boring college classes: I went because I had to and then felt good that I did what had to be done but then was relieved when it was over.

  I had a sense of accomplishment in that I did what others expected me to do and felt like I was worth something in their eyes.

  I never could get to the point of true love for god.

  I PI'd to be popular and to get points in the cong. and family. It worked.

  I never felt the attachment or joy that they said I should feel, though.
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  Superfine Apostate

  i always enjoyed when they were over.