Cancelled bookstudy- but do you remember 4 day Assemblies!!!

by Witness 007 47 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  blondie

  No, 1963 was 8 days too, I remember attending it.
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  Tyrone van leyen

  Ya but didn't those dramas make it all worth while. The fake beards, poor voice dubbing, lousy sets. Why it was just like you were walkin in Jerusalem with Jesus!

  I don't know if they should receive an award for the most God awful boring sessions of tedium and monotony, ever perpetrated on mankind, the poorest acting, the poorest voice overs, or being the biggest suckers ever, that had to clean up all this shit after the fun was over.

  The witnesses must have the best rose coloured glasses in the world. I'd climb the walls if I had to sit through that shit again.

  In all honesty, I think to most younger ones, it was a great time. To pick people up that is. Meet new girls, invite them for a swim at the hotels, go out partying and then do feild service. What a freakin joke!

  I remember my dad driving hundreds of miles to North Bay. That was our vacation. The only difference between me and the other witnesses is, they were doing all the above at the hotels but I wasn't allowed.

  We had to wear suit and tie sometimes with a vest, in blazing hot bleachers. Leaving your seat was a big no no. Really happy times. You could probably fry an egg on the stage.

  I can't even imagine 8 days of that. I wouldn't have a brain left. The conditions must have been awful. Sweaty sex, at those cheap hotels, must have been the highlight of the conventions in those days.
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  jookbeard

  I were a 3 year old at the Wemberly Stadium 8 day International Convention, then Twickenham for 5/6 dayers , remember sitting in the dark in that dirty,dusty old stadium,tired,hungry and having to stay hours afterwards as my Father was working on security
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  Tyrone van leyen

  We did security too. I guess we both did the long haul.
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  JWdaughter

  I remember taking the bus to the international assembly(pre-1975) with my mom, brother and little sister. The bus was about 1.5-2 hours each way, for every day of it. We were at the Kingdom in Seattle. I think. It was a really long assembly, and I remember pulling the cord all the way-not realizing till the end of the assembly that I was telling the bus driver to stop at every stop:) I'm sure he looked forward to our family getting on the bus. I quietly sat there summoning him to stop 50 times, my little sister whining and my brother running and and down the aisles (probably would be given medication now, but this was the 70's-he was a normal busy boy:))
  
  I can say a lot of things about my mother, but the woman survived assemblies with 3 little children, all by herself-and there was no one helping her. She was no wuss.
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  Gayle

  In '58, the 8 day assembly in New York,,we traveled there from California by car, no air-conditioning then, there were 4 of us kids then,,don't know how my parents did it,,didn't even get our lodging yet till we got there,,then the Society made an agreement w/a ship that was used to bring Europeans to New York for the assembly and docked there till after the assembly to return the Europeans (Europeans had already their lodging elsewhere), and we finally got our rooming assignments after we got to New York,,the ship was not a cruise ship either like nowadays, quite in the rough. Our room had bunk beds with shared bathroom facilities. The air circulation wasn't working in that ship the 1st day there. Most District Assemblies were hot and how we had to always dress up, I think those were always a 'brain frying' event in themselves for us. Oh the memories :(
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  OUTLAW

  ..4 day Assemblies?..LOL!!..I remember 8 Day Assemblies!..Dubs were tougher then!..Navy Seal DubS!!........."Join our religion or you`ll all die in 1975"....LOL!!..................OUTLAW
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  Simon

  I remember sitting on blankets on the terraces at Hillsborough with plastic sheeting over the barriers to protect us from the rain while the echoey drone of the speaker sent you to sleep clutching your last bar of Hellas fake-chocolate and food-tickets.
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  caliber

  The 8 day assembly period I think was the hay day time for the WT. ..like 1969.. when man had just landed on the

  moon.It was all tied in with man trying to reach the heavens and how God was going to soon bring it all crashing down !

  Also does any one remember all the boasting about the assembly feeding program and how even the military was said

  to be fascinated by it and came learn about it ?

  Cal
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  OUTLAW

  "Also does any one remember all the boasting about the assembly feeding program and how even the military was said to be fascinated by it and came learn about it ?".........Absolutely..I was just a kid but I can remember that..The military came to learn how to feed the troops the JW way!!..LOL!!..What a bunch of DumAss`s!!..LOL!!................ ...OUTLAW