Found an old Talk..WARNING this may Cause Nausea (page 2)

gilwarrior

Xena, I have to smile picturing you giving this talk. Perhaps because I remember the picture you posted of yourself wearing a jacket and bra. *hee, hee*

Oh my. That really brings back a lot of memories. I remember as a teenager, being assigned the #4 talk in the front hall for the first time. When I (being the JW teenage drone at that point) excitedly told another sister my age about it, she rolled her eyes and said, "When are you going to learn? None of this matters." I remember being shocked and offended and totally concerned for my friend's spiritual health. LOLOLOLOL! Thank god I finally learned!

Xena

freedom - yep I generally tended to get the thumbs up on my talks.....lol and sorry for the flashbacks, if it makes you feel any better I had them too....I like to "share" the pain

Rhonda - my sister is nothing like me.....she is the "good" one lol

Joanna - it is interesting to look back (in a freaky kinda way)....someone asked me to do my door to door presentation for them recently...it was weird how easy it was to slip back into it...spooky almost...

cali and jack - I know when you look back objectively you can really see the manipulation, can't you. Funny how you never notice when you are in it...when I read the publications now (on the very very rare occasion) I am amazed at how blind I was to it!

gil - ROFL I have come a LONG way baby

Billygoat - I can just picture you the sweet sincere adoreable JW teen. (no insult intended) I used to love giving these talks, shoot they were one of the few ways sisters had a chance to "shine" at the hall....

BluesBrother

Well, I would certainly have given you a "Good" on the counsel shhet for Scripture Application Made Clear" and "Conversational Quality" !

And progress to the next counsel point, Sister.

Mary

I would have given you a "Work On" under "Repetition for Emphasis", as Service jes' wasn't stressed nearly enough!

LyinEyes

OMG, Xena, that was sickening........ good form thou....... I bet you got a G... but the way they made up say these things .. I did my share of these,,,,,, but what would God think if you missed a meeting, crap talks.

But that was the way it was, we tried to do it by the book, if not we got a W and would be stuck to do it all over again. I hated doing talks by the way..... but actually when I did them , I did pretty good, I tried to come up with diff, ideas and use some little props...... the kids liked that. I can say in our congregation we were lucky to have ones who did try to put some life in those boring parts.

I bet that talk was pretty fun to do thou.

I found a talk my mother worked up for me a few weeks ago. It was on the rich man and lazarus and I was only 9. So she worked it up and had it on index cards. I guess even thou the I hate the JW's ,I treasure those index cards , because it has my mom's writing on it,,,,, funny how the words she wrote still look so alive. It also reminded me of a time that she tried to help me and was trying to do the best she could in the "truth". You should save your talk for your daughter,,,,,, even the embarrassing things we do as JW's can help our children to understand us when they get older. I still have my kingdom scrapbook I made when I was 11. I can't get rid of it , because it is more about a girl coming of age and has lots of poems , clippings and memories,, that go way deeper than JW stuff.

refiners fire

..."Cindy: I cant tell you what to do Lindsey. There is nothing wrong with going ice-skating. I was just explaining to you why Monica and Joseph wouldnt be able to go.

Lindsey: I havent been out in service this month, maybe if I could get a ride I could go with you"....

Adjusted that Sisters thinking Nicely there. Somehow I suspect she is a backslider, but at least YOU wont be held Bloodguilty.Nice work Sister.

tyydyy

Oh Yeah....It sounded nice but please let no one think that Xena actually thought anything like that. That was purely a nice piece of fiction. Of course we all knew what to say and how to say it. Everything we said from the platform and in the back of the hall was spoken in an unholy theocratic language. Our words at the door in field service came from someone else's mind. Our smiles at the assemblies were forced to the surface while the thoughts of the nearby amusement park were kept tightly boxed until the closing prayer. Every time we were invited to an office party we spoke someone else's words. We really did want to party. We wanted to be on the company softball team. We craved the action-packed and sexy R-rated movies while we denied ever seeing them. Looking back, don't we all feel like puppets? Somehow under the control of the master of the harvest? I remember the night I cut the strings. I became truly alive. I ran for the joy of running. I read books that lead me to read other books. I lost myself in music. I sung christmas carols while walking in the mall. For all those little things I now experience that make me normal I thank myself...............Amen Tim

refiners fire

Lindsey: I havent been out in service this month , maybe if I could get a ride I could go with you"....

Puppets. Never more aptly demonstrated than the closing sentence, Tim. Interesting. I dont ever recall it being in the outline that you had to have a politically totally correct conclusion like that one. We just did it automatically didnt we? Close our talk demonstrating that we are totally orthodox, spiritually in line, and encouraging others to go likewise. Course, myself, I would have left out the "maybe". Let there be no "maybe" about it!

Xena

I always got G's on my talks that is until MARY came along *running sobbing now to the back room*

lol lyin I remember one of my first talks was on the Daniel proph. and the weeks of days....*groan* what were they thinking???? and you are right I think I will save these for Bethany....after all it is a part of my "heritage"...

nice post tyydyy and you are right I just said what they wanted to hear....

gee refiners now I feel like a baby killer or something.....and the maybe was there to make it seem authentic...I was going for realistic..*snort*

Found an old Talk..WARNING this may Cause Nausea

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