I tried to make the Theocratic Ministyry School interesting. I was always hoping (back during the Young PEople Ask talks) that I could do the masturbation talk while working on gestures. But it never happened. I would try to bring up interesting facts about egypt, the climate of the fertile crescent, anything really to try and relieve the boredom but it only got me W's. The problem wasn't that I was a bad public speaker, but that the regular conductor was too rigid.
He had a system. In fact he is quite famous in that district for it. If you want to get a G you do these things:
Make two or three emphatic gestures. Hold the bible up, don't look down. Summarize your main idea by reiterate the points in numerical order. In other words:
1: We see that by killing all the philistines and taking their penises, Samson was not just a great warrior, but he had this wierd penile obesssion.
2: He was not guilty of pornea. God told him to do it.
3: Like the leper said to the harlot Ohalaibah, "Keep the tip"
and so on. well maybe not like that.
as I was starting to break away, I tried more interesting things like trying ot give a talk with a beard. I dont look good in a beard. I was shaving, I recall, as the elders drove up my driveway for a loving talk with me.
finally when another person was conducting the school, I showed up late just in time to give my number four talk. It was really a borking talk with alll the right points covered. Still, I dressed like Vincent from "Pulp Fiction" that day, cept for the hair. It was interesting to hear my title read out loud "Let's Get Medieval on False Religion". No one found it funny. That was my last talk.
