by RULES & REGULATIONS 75 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
The last Assembly I attended was over 10 years ago. The monotone speakers, boring talks, uncomfortable seats, long prayers and nodding off after the lunch break did me in. I survived the morning sessions, but the afternoon sessions were brutal. All I did was look at the clock to see when the torture would end.
I wouldn't last thru a one day assembly today. What day would be your breaking point?
It's so much easier to stay awake now. They use mixed media to keep it from being monotone & keep your attention ( talks, videos, interviews, songs/ music videos, audio Bible reading, etc). Yes, the old days were brutal though.
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G.
last one i attended was at the old Wembley stadium London UK in about 1969. It rained the whole time. Utterly miserable pointless waste of a few days.
Can you imagine if they still had the 7 or 8 day marathons now? Went on until 9 at night sometimes. If Knorr was pontificating he knew noting of staying on time and droned on and on.
Some dubs came to my house just as I was heading out and left an invite to the Kissimmee (Orlando) one this weekend. They looked like bums and didn't speak as I got in my SUV. Weird
My breaking point would be the first time I needed to use the ladies room- usually within the first hour or so. They were always stinky with taped up mirrors. (Can't have those vain sisters touching up their make-up or hair.)
If by some miracle I could avoid the ladies room the breaking point would be the old "Keynote Address". The subject was always a lead-in to some later released study book. The " Type and Antitype" and the endless convoluted explanation of some prophesy book like Ezekiel, Daniel, or Revelation. Kids were crying, men nodded off, sisters daydreamed, and I took out my binoculars to see if I could spot someone I knew across the stadium.
3rdgen
My breaking point would be the first time I needed to use the ladies room- usually within the first hour or so. They were always stinky with taped up mirrors. (Can't have those vain sisters touching up their make-up or hair.)
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/68668/covering-up-bathroom-mirrors-assemblies
Did the 8 and 5 day. Everyone needs a nap. If you could get a hall attendant job it was better. Wife used to jab me awake for count times if I had a section. On a few occasions something would happen where I could actually be of aid.
Pre marriage I watched for a girlfriend. It worked ONCE. after marriage some grump yelled at me for being a playboy--14 yo friends daughter and my young looking wife.
The first Lett video I watched the audience and nobody else seemed to notice the clown show.
Get a program and we can make the talks. If you knew the interviewees you could spot bare faced lies--assuming the same holds true when we do not know them.
:) lol Hell NO!!!!
The last assembly I attended with 3rd Gen was over 10 years ago.
Cow Palace, San Francisco.
Saturday lunch rolled around. (We had just been subjected to mind-numbing ridiculous demonstrations of "Happy normal JW families" having the morning day text over breakfast. Ummmm...., don't these people have to get up before the sun to commute to work and school at different times? In what world do families have leisurely breakfasts (mom has time to cook?!) and day text discussions without a care in the world, or fear to be to a job on time? lol. ) Well after that stupid demonstration, lunch rolled around, and we headed towards the restrooms. EGADS!!!! the ladies' facility STANK ... horribly 100 ft from the door. So we decided to stop by our hotel just a mile away.
30 minutes later we looked at each other and decided it was such a nice breezy Saturday... let's be tourists. We had a lovely day and skipped the rest of the Convention. No lightning bolts hit us.
We had just finished reading "Crisis of Conscious" and the threads about Menlo Park on this site. It became our last Convention. :)
Nope, no more Conventions!
Years ago one day in the blistering heat at Dodger Stadium with an elderly mom, I just said to myself "this is the last one." It was brutal...that afternoon sun.
Turned out, WT made arrangements with Long Beach convention center for something like 20 years of conventions in exchange for certain cleaning and maintenance, and it was in doors, and 5 minutes from my house. YAY!!!
The last time I went to the regional convention, 2020, I had no idea it would be the last. But a group of us sat up and away, and brought things to do. I wrote letters and cards, others worked on personal paperwork.
