Regional Convention Attendance

by XBEHERE 93 Replies latest jw friends

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  Journeyman

  I remember sitting in the hot sun in a suit sweating your balls off getting dehydrated...

  Or if you were in the UK, the opposite problem: getting frozen by the cold wind blowing round the upper levels of the football stadium you're in - or soaked by pouring rain, then having to sit in the stands (or in your car) slowly steaming in a soggy, creased suit!
  

  (Note: of course, we did have hot days too during the conventions, but it depended how good the summer was each year - the rainy/cold ones were worse!)
  
  
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  Foolednomore

  Yes, I have experienced both extremes. In The US and Europe. A real pain in the azz!
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  Hopeless1

  Journeyman,

  I remember, decades ago, sitting in the stadium of Crystal Palace football ground for the entire circuit assembly frozen cold and soaking wet from drizzle/rain!

  Oh happy days!!!?

  Now they want my elderly not very well husband to sit in another football stadium in Milton Keynes for an entire weekend, after a gruelling bus journey for a couple of hours each way, - it grieves me.
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  blondie

  I remember reading on here suggested that District now Regional conventions would be changed to only 3 days total, and circuit assemblies all being just one day. Is this a part fulfillment. :)
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  Beth Sarim

  This is fulfillment

  A$$emblie$ and CONvention$ are cash cows and are designed to hijack your mind.

  2-day circuit a$$emblie$ are now only 1 day because that way they can guilt-trip more people into donating,,2 times. By having 2 circuits meating each time.
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  blondie

  Keeps the schedule of having 3 assemblages yearly of members. The WTS compares it to the 3 festivals celebrated by the Jews yearly in Jerusalem. If they stopped having 3 assemblages yearly, then the "scriptural" basis would disappear. It is like not mentioning 7,000 year creative days on which the WTS calculated 1975. Hasn't been mentioned since 1987 except a quote in 1989. Just gone with the wind.
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  stan livedeath

  opeless111 hours ago

  Journeyman,
  I remember, decades ago, sitting in the stadium of Crystal Palace football ground for the entire circuit assembly frozen cold and soaking wet from drizzle/rain!

  i had a similar miserable few days at the old Wembley stadium in about the early 70's. Cold and wet; solid seats--crowds of wet miserable people. I vowed never to attend another big assembly--and i kept my promise.
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  LV101

  Respectful Observer - thanks for the Six Screens video. I only viewed from the 52 min. on but well worth it. Next guest is Barbara Anderson -- I'll try to watch.
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  Hopeless1

  Ooooooo Stan, I remember that one!

  8 days of soggy muddy hell! (Sorry, - it wasn’t that warm)

  The coach drivers were having punch-ups in the parking lot and some passengers couldn’t find their coaches.

  So many people went home that year with an awful flu-like virus, (myself included), a day’s journey back to the north-west U.K. Was off work for two months and lost a stone in weight because of that blessed assembly!

  But pity the poor mothers with youngsters and babies, and the elderly and infirm ones!
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  ThomasMore

  Blondie - I also recall WTC claiming that (now that you mention it). At the time I thought it was a disinguous claim. Glad you remembered that!