Sub-thread of Yondaime - I'm going to read on Sunday :p

by LogCon 4 Replies latest jw experiences

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  LogCon

  Not to take away from Yondaime's thread but I just wanted to ask about personal experiences regarding the congregation meetings.

  When I was young, [about 10] in the early sixties one brother in our hall used to read the Watchtower about once every two months. Back then they were not too particular about who they got. If he was baptized, he would read.

  This brother was a terrible reader, he obviously would never prepare and when he came to a word he could not pronounce he simply said, ...' wheelbarrow'.

  Of course the kids in the hall looked eagerly for the time Br. SoandSo was going to be the reader. He would always say 'wheelbarrow' at least once and, during some readings, several times. Of course, all the kids in the congregation would look at each other and snicker. "There's another one". I always thought it strange that the adults never batted an eye. They must have just thought, " Well, that's Bro SoandSo".

  Is there anything about the meetings that you can relate that is strange or out of the ordinary?
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  zeb

  a similar where a brother stated that Alexander the great would go into battle using a paralax as his battle formation. He meant phalanx. Paralax is an optical term. Like bro wheelbarrow he had not prepared or had not used a dictionary and like most jw had a poor level of education. Sad.
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  Gregor

  Book study group. My reader was young brother who was very shy. We were studying the Song of Solomon book (cant't remember the name of the book.)

  Everytime he came to the word 'breasts' he substituted "beasts". As in "being intoxicated with the beasts of her youth" etc. Made me cringe and I could see some supressed giggles in the group.
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  conflicted89

  I used to be in the sign language group which was rather small and limited for readers. we had one old guy who was terrible at reading and for one study which seemed to mention vigour a lot he read it as viagra.

  There was also a visiting public speaker who spoke so quickly I could hardly understand what he was saying, nevermind translate. Yet, because no one else could even attempt to interpret him Ialways got stuck. 45mins of sign language for that guy was exhausting. He should have known better, he was an interpreter himself.

  Then there are the interpreting cockups...

  One sister should have signed that the teacher in the illustration "fired questions at the students", instead she signed that the teacher fired at the students. evidently with a machine gun.

  The group study leader interpreting a prayer with the phrase "slap in the face to satan" hit his "satan hand" so hard the whole hall heard and burst into giggles.

  Now you can understand why the meetings were so much more fun in sign language!
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  idiotnomore

  1976 I think. It was a Sunday talk out of the Youth book (teh red one). It was a talk on masturbation. I can remember the brother's words exactly. " Have you ever rubbed your genitals to the point of producing an emission of "Serum"?, and he kept using that word "serum" instead of "semen". There were obvious giggles from the audience and not just the young ones. He was not a very good reader and I felt bad for him. I think he knew his talk was a bomb.