Do you remember your last meeting?

by freedom96 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  freedom96

  Last meeting I ever went to was a memorial, 6 years ago. I remember it well, and it wasn't even my own hall.

  It was so boring. Mindless dribble coming from the stage. Everyone so formal for the only "holiday" that they say they celebrate. Seemed to take forever. I was only there because I went with a girl I had hoped to marry at the time. So my heart was not there with the meeting.

  Seems like every meeting I ever went to was the same. Same stuff every time, boring as hell. I never was excited to be a witness, never cared for any of it.

  Only going through the motions.

  Thankfully, I saw the light, and got out.
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  unbeliever

  It was in early 1996 a Thursday night meeting I believe. I had told myself that was the last meeting I would ever attend. Apart from a wedding and funeral I have not stepped foot in the KH since.
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  pamkw

  The last meeting I went to was an assembly in Lincoln, Nebraska. Don't remember much except my sister and BIL fought the whole time. That was in 1995. I have only been back to the hall for a funeral and a wedding.

  Pam
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  safe4kids

  Yep, I remember it well. The last meeting I attended was a memorial several years ago (getting old, can't remember exactly how many years! LOL). It was interminably boring and I knew as I walked outside to my car, trailing my two little children, that I would never be back. It was actually a great relief...I think that was a 'test' I had to put myself through, but I walked away with absolutely no regrets and an incredible sense of freedom

  Dana
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  zanex

  i remember my last meeting..it was the one where they announced me as being disfellowshipped.."brother so and so has now been officially delcared disfellowshipped and is no longer one of jehovahs witnesses" i havent been back...i imagine that it is a fear that i will one day have to overcome...maybe I'll take in a memorial or somethin.

  -Z-
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  micheal

  Last meeting I ever went to was a Book Study, 7 months ago. Isaiah vol2 ( so much diff than vol 1) I think it discussed destruction for all those that left the truth or something like that.

  Now without the regular talk and hope of the destruction of billions including the elderly, women and children, I feel so much better.
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  Winston Smith :>D

  Yep, last week Tuesday, the Isaiah book study. It was craptastic.

  Winston.
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  smurfette

  Seems like alot of people's last meetings are book studies or memorial. Mine was a book study. I like Winston's description of it being craptastic, too true. There was an anouncement for some special assembly in South America. During the "fellowship and cake" segment of our bookstudy, the girl sitting next to me asked me if I would go with her. I told her I had better things to do than hang out at a lame assembly in South America. I hadn't realized more than a few people were listening to us talking and a hush came over them like you could hear crickets in the background.
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  JeffT

  Our last meeting (if you don't count a couple where I was protesting outside) was a DC in Tacoma in 1988. We went with the specific intention of listening with an open mind, and really examing what was going on there. We left with two strong impressions. 1) What was coming off the platform was crap. It wasn't logical, it wasn't backed up by facts, and a lot of it could only be described as propaganda. One light bulb really went off for me. I'd always sort of noticed that during breaks every once in a while you'd hear "and the good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the earth" over the PA system. I'd thought that they were doing sound checks. That time it hit me that the were filling our heads (or trying to) with that phrase. 2) Most of the people there knew it was crap. They were listless, unengaged, and the only thing that kept the outer concourse from looking like a singles bar was the lack of alcohol. I think every single person there spent the whole three days trolling for a companion.

  I've never been back, except as an apostate.
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  RAYZORBLADE

  I remember it.

  It was so weird because the weeks leading up to that particular meeting, I had pretty much decided: that's it; I'm done; I'm outta here.

  I went back, more or less, to see if I had any feelings for the JWs, the Kingdom Hall, and everything conceivably related to it.

  Nil.

  I was in a bit of haze. It was like I could hardly take any of it in.

  Approaching the 20 year mark: January 1, 2004.

  My feelings: same