When You Were Sitting During The Meetings What Were You Really Thinkng About? (page 2)

minimus

When I would give public talks out of town, I often left right after the talk and went for a good breakfast. It was tough telling the congregation we needed to be loyal JWs while I was thinking about bacon and eggs and homefries.

FadeToBlack

Two more hours of my life wasted (and I don't have that many left!)... I could be out walking the dogs, working in the garden. Even painting the fence would be better than 'read an repeat'. Sometimes I would fantasize about how cool it would be to float up to the ceiling at the assembly hall during the public talk and do a burning bush kinda thing, and then return to my seat like nothing happened. That would be an assembly they wouldn't forget. I like to hold my hands up during the songs like the picture of the people on the cover of the new song book. I figured that is what we are supposed to do since we always discuss every picture in the WT for 10 minutes and use them (when positive) for how we should act or dress. Parking lot duty was always nice, even in the winter.

ShirleyW

Basically what you said Miz, but I have a feeling the majority of the congregation is probably thinking that also, they come to the meetings and put their "Jah Hat" on or something, but once they're in the parking lot, it's out of sight, out of mind !

Ucantnome

Women. When I left and went back I would read my bible and think about what was being said.

XBEHERE

Min I do the same thing, I never stay for the WT study

During the meetings I think about what I will eat when I get home, sometimes I will go to the bathroom and go on my iPhone and play temple run. Also if there are any sisters wearing tight, short skirts, and there always are, I try to make out what type of underwear that they're wearing based on the outline's in the skirt. Much easier in the summer ,no pantyhose.

minimus

X -- YOU DIRTY OLD ELDER.

straightshooter

It would always drive me up the wall to hear a brother who always give a public talk inserting his own thoughts into the material. I mean incorrect thoughts or old, outdated, changed information. Why tell us that the 10 toes of Daniel's image means all the governments of the world, when hello the understanding has been changed. Yet this brother was used constantly. I found that all I was doing was "looking" for incorrect information in his talks.

wannaexit

mental grocery list

planning my weekly meals

00DAD

My hot neighbor.

ThisFellowCheap

I write poems at the meetings. And if I get to publish them, I think I'm gonna call them "Dumb Poems from the Kingdom Hall"! Before I got DFed, if I don't sleep off, I'd start writing all the grammatical blunders of the public talk speaker, or I simply just count the old and even verses in the Bible. For pranks, I'd make sarcastic comments at the Watchtower study (which everyone would consider deep or thought-provoking, lol), or I'd cook up some experience from some 1940's literature (which nobody had access to), or some very unscientific quotes from the Awake, and everyone marvels at my 'vast knowledge'. On matchday Sundays, I always check Soccernet more than the Bible, and then text messages like "My team (Manchester Utd) is trashing your team Arsenal, scores now 8:2" to other MS's in the meeting. I even once sent one such signal to the guy giving the talk and he started stutterring, we had a good laugh afterwards! I also engage in a lot of side-comments, and so the ladies (ok, sisters) loooove to sit beside me. The elders always query me for this, and I always tell them I have ADD (true, I can't pay attention to hogwash for long!), well the males always disliked me for this, but I guess they just jealous.

But my, meetings can be so boring, I always wake up sick on Sundays!

When You Were Sitting During The Meetings What Were You Really Thinkng About?

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