by JH 24 Replies latest jw friends
I remember sisters getting new dresses for the visit. Never figured that out.
Some of us enjoyed getting to the hall a little early most sundays to visit before the meetings. But there would never be an elder or ms with a key showing up any sooner than 10 minutes before a meeting. But during the visit they'd have the doors wide open a half hour before meeting.
They all run scared.
There was too much crap to answer up to if you didn't participate in the programs that the WTS so lovingly provided us.
I was so awed by the CO's when I was new in the org. Brother Hollace Milliken did a lot to destroy those notions. I made the effort to be out in service and at all the meetings and all because I wanted to get what I thought they had, which turned out to be nothing.
The adulation is what keeps them going I think.
So,I'm taking this CO.to a very important meeting because his car that we pay for is in the shop.So, here is my opportunity to do some straight talk with him as I am an elder and he is visiting my congregation.After I pour out my concerns.This is his loving response,"Well brother,it looks like you dug yourself a pretty big hole, you should give those children of your a swift kick in the pants and even if you are no longer serving as an elder I'll still love you like a brother.Right then and there my heart sunk I couldn't believe my ears.Surely he must of heard my heartfelt concerns.I started to have an anxiety attack .When I got to the meeting which I was attending also ,he says your giving me a ride back home after meeting right.What could I say,It was a quiet ride back.Blueblades, and yes there is much hypocrisy when the CO. visits as has been mentioned by the previous responses.
All the ones that are always late show up early, and the ones who never answer are waving their hands around. It's real funny if you have the right perspective.
In my congregation, it is always the same ones who invite the CO & his wife for lunch. I have volunteered to do this in the past, but the same ones have always got in first and I never got the chance. I have a sneaky feeling that one time there was still a vacant lunch slot but, when I approached the elder organising CO lunches, he said the slots had been filled. I think he just had me down as a trouble-maker and didn't want me to have the CO all to myself. I used to find it quite hurtful (I started to think it was my cooking!) but after a while I got used to it and didn't bother to ask any more. I never got a chance to work with him on the ministry either - I think COs avoided me. It used to make me sick the way everyone was always so friendly and 'loving' when he visited, yet I could barely get a 'hello' out of them the rest of the year.
A few years ago our bookstudy was assigned to feed the CO on Saturday. Well, everyone in the congregation figured it'd be really nice to provide lunch for EVERYONE that showed up for service that day, so we were supposed to plan on fixing a big lunch for dozens of people. Now if that wasn't enough of a joke to feed everyone..nobody in our bookstudy volunteered to help with food, so my wife and I got stuck feeding everyone. We ended up going to Subway and getting tons of sub sandwiches. I was so pissed!!! I told my wife...why the f*** are we feeding everybody?? We're only supposed to fix lunch for the CO, not the entire congregation....let them bring their OWN lunch. I told the PO I wasn't happy and he told me that it was a privilege and this is what the elders decided to do. They thought it would encourage everyone.........well it did! It encouraged everyone to come and get a free frickin' meal! Needless to say we never volunteered for anything again!!!!
Edited by - jimbob on 18 December 2002 20:2:4
Edited by - jimbob on 18 December 2002 20:2:45
Good old Ass kissing is what they call it. No different than what you would see at your secular "worldly" places of work.
Will
I missed the entire CO's visit....had to work again.
