Remember what they said at the assembly today... (page 2)

Comatose

I knew I would get the question on what I enjoyed, so I made sure to find a point in the day I could cite. I liked to pick ones about materialism or avoiding plastic surgery since thats what the elders and their wives completely ignored in my hall.

truthseekeriam

Boy do I remember those rides home! Trying to get anything from the kids about what they learned, all they could talk about is where we were going for dinner :)

lrkr

@cc- Yes the American brothers giving talks in foreign languages are notoriously poor speakers of the foreign language. In my experience- that goes all the way up the food chain. I remember hearing Wally Liverance- a Gilead Instructor- speak in spanish. It was like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard!!

But you cant diminish the fact that the assemblies are more and more just canned, proofread manuscripts without an ounce of reality or actual human emotion. Now- 6 years out- I cant imagine going and listening to a seminar for a full day and walking away not being able to remember a single interesting item.

jgnat

Don't get me started on ASL. Wooden, jerky speakers. Except for the Masturbation video, of course. Oops. That came out wrong.

dozy

I often had an item on the "review of the assembly / convention " service meeting section that used to be held on the first service meeting after the assembly. Trying to get answers was like pulling teeth - most of the people who had gushed about how "wonderful" the assembly was had absolutely nothing to say. The only tactic that seemed to work was to recall the illustrations & demos on the basis that at least some of the audience would recall them.

I gave up one time & just gave the whole item as a review with hardly any audience participation. The PO pulled me up afterwards about it but I told him I was fed up of giving these items assembly after assembly & really struggling for any answers. I guess it shows that hardly anybody really remembers anything of note from the talks at assemblies.

lrkr

@Fink- and the 8 day assemblies were in the days of the master propagandists- Freddie, Nathan, Friend, Glass, Schroeder, Ghengis. Guys that felt like they were writing the bible- not just teaching it. I imagine listening to those wind bags drone on was sheer torture (especially in NYC in the summer in an open stadium)

Finkelstein

I only went to one back in 1969 but as usual it was mostly freer mongering .

The end was to come soon and here is how to save yourself from destruction.

Hours and hours of people showing how to be in good standing with god before that day comes.

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Read how by buying are books and magazines and if you really want to get approved by god

distribute these magazines yourself in the door to door multi-level sales scam by god's only

chosen earthly organization the Watchtower Corporation.

compound complex

Thanks, lrkr!

Yes, some knew nothing whatsoever vis-a-vis the foreign language and simply jumped in and picked it up by ear. I give them credit for their fearless endeavor, which was rewarded particularly out in service: foreigners in America were honored to be visited by young men who made a genuine effort to communicate in a tongue not their own.

We who received formal training over a period of many years were chosen to be speakers. You cannot get around the need to read and write your adopted language.

Gratefully,

CoCo

OnTheWayOut

I took pretty good notes, had to refer back to those notes for the meeting review of the assembly, then never looked at them ever again.

I suppose I retained information for a short while. But it was almost always entirely stuff you already knew. The things I would remember would be anecdotes and cute phrases and jokes. Then I would forget them too.

rebel8

I developed a skill that has come in handy after attending dumb seminars and meetings at work--scouring the presentations for 1 interesting point I can spit back out when asked later.

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