I have missed so many district assemblies already. I only attended 1 since 2000. Before 2000, I missed more than few of them. It costs me money to attend the assemblies, forget them!
2010 - NO District Convention For Me - WoooHoooo! Anybody Else?
by mentallyfree31 43 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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theMadJW
Being read ('Bobbers'- heads going up & down, like politicians when they read) to is not MY idea of encouragement. No more ASSemblies for me!
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thetrueone
No more ASSemblies for me!
Good for you, you sound like your intectually maturing !
Is this the start of MADJW joining humanity and the responsibilities that that all contains ?
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Mad Sweeney
I missed one due to illness in my entire life and made up for it by getting tapes from friends. They were great for helping me fall asleep and get the rest I needed.
This will be the first one I've ever missed because of my own free will. I can't wait!
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OnTheWayOut
This will be #4 missed for me. Even at #1, I knew I wasn't missing anything.
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mentallyfree31
It sounds like everybody is just as thrilled as I am to be missing..
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SnakesInTheTower
I did not go in 2007 2008 2009 and I am not going in 2010... or ever.
What is sad is the all of the audio tapes I made...and then never listened to.... or all of the notebooks that I filled with endless jotted notes to be used at a future review on a Service Meeting....and then I wondered why I often got hit with that dreaded assignment as an MS and an elder.... and then never looked at again until time to throw them into the recycle bin or trash.
All of the 4 am wake up calls to go make hoagies at 5am at my assigned assembly.... and then go to the assembly to actually listen fall asleep the weekend after. I often wondered why brothers didnt just volunteer for another assembly and attend their own? (Actually, I think they did this in St. Louis and/or St. Charles, MO in the parking department so that brothers could attend with their families at their assigned one and vice versa.)
All of the hard physical labor carting around food or literature or trash, although there was a thin line defining those three things.
All of the walking around in dress shoes out in parking lots, hallways, up and down steep seating sections counting and lurking, or holding stupid signs that said "If it's on the floor please pick it up" or "Please Keep Moving"
All of the nasty labor of cleaning restrooms.
Staying around after late ... long after your own family and friends had hit the hotel pool, being stuck in the counting room until the last penny had been squeezed out of the sheeples.
All of the lost Thursdays doing "preconvention" work ...aka, cleaning stadiums that hadn't been thoroughly cleaned since its construction...and all of the stadium managers and maintenance staff "praising" our hard work while snickering in their offices at the suckas that were cleaning their building annually. Anyone remember cleaning up the day after a truck show, complete with a layer of dirt on every freaking seat in the stadium? Or hurrying to break down everything in two hours because the WT, in its eagerness to save money off the rent, agreed to clear out between conventions so that some rock concert could occur that night? How about landscaping outside the arena in KC? What kind of deal was that? Good for the stadium managers...good for the WTS saving money on their rent....bad for the free laborers doing the actual work,
Listening to the ancient of days, aka Governing Body members, droning on and on and on Sunday afternoon like no one else would ever be allowed...but it was allowed because they were the GB! Who on the local convention committee is going to tell Barr/Sydlick/Herd/Swingle et. al. to get off the stage? No...squirming children being restrained by equally squirming parents who are secretly sneaking glances at their watches (and later their cell phones) wondering why it is now 5pm when things were supposed to be over by 4? And why is the brother praying instead reviewing the convention and asking for Jehober to bless everyone like it was an Oscar acceptance speech, equally long and boring?
Sweat glistening off our brows and down our necks while we sweated in Busch Stadium, or froze to death in the upper levels of the old Checkerdome or smelled the horses and fought off the flies from the horses at the nearby stables at the racetrack at the State Fairgrounds in Springfield....or tried not to break our necks on the upper levels of arenas in Springfield and St. Charles.
Heartburn from the warmed over burritos, soggy hoagies, and dry danishes...dont forget the flat and warm Shasta (or Vess, or whatever generic soda was cheap and local).... and the eagerness of some brothers to buy the surplus up at the end? Why the hell would you want to eat that another day?
Sisters... you werent left out...did you enjoy cleaning the restrooms...and wondering why the brothers were overseeing but not scrubbing, despite the fact that the majority of those same "Cleaning Overseers" made livings as janitors and window washers? Or sitting in front of contribution boxes because you werent qualified to do anything else...Even if you had an accounting degree and made a living as a CPA, you couldnt count money -- because you didnt have a p*n*s. Or if you were an MD or an RN...you couldnt oversee First Aid...for the same reason.
I have no idea when or where the conventions in the area are.
Yeah, as a brother, I was worked like a dog. Do you think I miss District Conventions?
Snakes (Rich )
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EmptyInside
Aw, Snakes, you summed it up really well. Yes, I miss cleaning out the toilet stalls in my dress clothes.
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mentallyfree31
Nice summary Snakes. This brings back many dreadful memories.
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theMadJW
We need to ask ourselves: "Will we benefit more fully?"
Bwahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaaahahaha!
Yes, indeedee!
(And most of the new songs are WORSE than awful!