George, you're kidding! Too funny! I have visions of the audience humming Benny Hill music while they watched.
''Spiritual high(TM)'' after an a$$emb£y anyone?
by punkofnice 49 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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punkofnice
St G - It's the little things that count...oooh, matron!
HoaB - I wasted so much of my life waiting for armageddon(TM) to make things right. What a crock. Born in...sorry, I can't thank my parents for that.
AnnOMaly - The Benny Hill music would be a great idea for a Kingdumb Malady. T'be sure.
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St George of England
George, you're kidding! Too funny! I have visions of the audience humming Benny Hill music while they watched.
Not kidding at all. One of the attendants picked up the guy's trunks and when they eventually caught him, (he was a fit guy!), they asked or told him to put on his trunks. He refused and set off running again. At this point they sent for a sheet and set off after him again and when they caught him they wrapped the sheet arond him and led him off.
The Benny Hill music would have been brilliant. I often wonder if anyone took photos of it. My wife would not let me!
This was Southampton, must have been late 1980's or early 1990's.
George
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punkofnice
St G - Too far south for me. Pity I missed all the fun. Nothing exciting at my snore-fests. Just watching the planes go over Twickers.
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WTWizard
All fake. I would think I was doing the right thing, and experience this "spiritual high"--the first time. The second one, I was let down when it turned out to be another dud. After that, they were nothing but rubbish.
I feel a better spiritual high, more genuine and not mistaken for doing the right thing or simply traveling, simply by watching a well-lit Christmas tree than going to these wastefests. Watching a video of someone putting up a nice Christmas tree is more refreshing than sitting at these wastefests. And, by putting up lights and decorations in the hallway for Christmas, I get to actually contribute to such--not to mention putting a small tree with nice warm white LED lights in a spot that seems perfect, along with a backdrop of pine branch garland that I strung with lights. Nothing like a big display of Christmas lights, properly done (and I am getting pretty good at determining what constitutes "properly done") to do the same thing. Yes, it costs me money and I do spend plenty of time. Yet, I would rather spend the money on Christmas decorations than motel rooms, gas, and Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund donations. And I would rather spend the time putting up Christmas displays than sitting in a chair listening to a boring lecture knowing that Brother Hounder doesn't want the opposite sex anywhere near me (somehow, I feel safer on a stepladder than at an a$$embly).
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punkofnice
WTWizard - (somehow, I feel safer on a stepladder than at an a$$embly).
Agreed. I'd rather play with traffic than listen to some old twat drone on and verbally using all the dexterity of a drunken chimp fishing for termites with a stick. Thank (insert deity), those days are over. Never to return. EVER!
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return of parakeet
I remember as a kid baking in the sun at the conventions in Yankee Stadium.
The only high I felt was intense relief when it was over.
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punkofnice
RoP - It usually rained here in the UK. There'd be those sitting on the steps at Twickenham with umbrellas and sheets of plastic over them.
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return of parakeet
punkofnice: If it had rained at convention time, I'd have risen from my seat in the lower mezzanine in the stadium and thanked Jehovah out loud.
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BluesBrother
In the "good old days" when I was an impressionable kid and young man.....yes, there was a real buzz from the Conventions. Four or five days with your "brothers" it was just like the New World, so we said..... I recall a real "high" at the top of the stands at Twickenham singing "We Thank You Jehovah" with a lump in my throat.. I belonged, these were my people, the best in the world,I thought.
The older I got, the less of a high I got. They became more mundane . I guess J W Facts nailed it when he said it was just the adrenalin rush and crowd psychology. I have since got the buzz at a stadium watching my team play football - a crass comparisom but a truism.
Do the younger keener ones still get it? I never hear anybody enthusing. They just go, and come back...rather matter of fact in their anecdotes.