Some of you might remember that last separate book study. Back in early January 2009, they had the last one. After that, it was added to the Theocraptic Misery "School(??)" and Circus Meeting. All of which ended Goodie Night, and forced book study comments to be much abbreviated and to stick to the paragraph.
In its place was Family Worship Night, more accurately termed Family Waste the Evening Night. Now, according to my understanding, you were supposed to waste 4 hours on this night studying washtowel littera-trash and rags, practicing field circus, enacting washtowel dramas, and (more recently) practicing singing those new Kingdumb maladies. There were things you were not supposed to do--use it for your regular family study and preparing for your boasting sessions. You were supposed to do those when you regularly did them, and use Family Waste the Evening Night to prepare and practice field circus and re-enact washtowel doctrines.
What I have heard became of it is variable. I have seen a few entrepreneurs taking advantage of Family Waste the Evening Night and making board and card games to use on it. Whether or not the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger (or local hounders) ever put their foot down on such ingenuity, since the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger itself does not endorse any of those games is a good question. I do know that the witlesses find ways to cheat this arrangement.
Some ways I have seen or heard about to cheat it include using just the Bible (defying the Kingdumb Misery of September 2007) without the littera-trash, using it to do things they already had to (preparing talks, preparing for boasting sessions, and the like), and cutting it short. When you need hounder-hounder talks at a$$emblies threatening with destruction of anyone not properly wasting the full 4 hours each week, you know people are cutting those corners. Perhaps spending an hour or so instead of the full 4 hours, or getting going 15 minutes at a time. Other things include skipping it altogether, turning on the TV or going to the mall or movies instead of wasting the time.
Now, as anyone with small children can attest to, it is close to impossible to get them to stay focused on Kingdumb interests for 4 hours at a time without threatening with spankings and beatings. This is prime homework time, and they are being expected to waste term-paper writing, test studying, and homework completing time on this rubbish. No wonder anyone actually doing it is bound to flunk their school! Those not yet in school are more likely to want to play during this waste, and they are supposed to sit still and go along with the Washtowel dramas or sing those dreadful Kingdumb maladies for an uninterrupted 4 hours each week! Even in school, they recognize that this is impossible--last I knew, classes ran 50 minutes during those grades, and you would get one recess in mid-morning, a noon recess after lunch, and dismissal after another 2 hours. Not 4 hours of uninterrupted rubbish.
I especially like it when they turn on the computer at the beginning of their session, and learn that the whole religion is bogus.
