Any talks from the hall or assembly still stick out in your mind ???

run dont walk

I will never forget a talk at the assembly where the speaker had a 6 year old child on stage,

and the experience went something like this.

While at school, the child said something to another schoolmate to the effect of ............................

"I cannot associate with you, because bad association spoil useful habits."

"And if you don't serve Jehovah, you will be destroyed at Armageddon."

well, the whole crowd applauded and applauded.

The speaker then said "What a fine example our young ones are showing to the world."

I never forgot this experience, I think what bugged me most was the crowd applauding, I remember driving home that night after the assembly, and saying to my parents. "How can the Jw's be so mean to people." (I was probaly 12 or 13 at the time), they just shrugged their shoulders and said I was taking it the wrong way.

And to be honest that was probaly the beginning for me wanting to get out.

I always saw the hatred towards anyone who wasn't a JW.

Any experiences out there that still stick in your mind, funny or serious ???????

Vivamus

Once, our cong. had a guest speaker. A really old brother, with a mind that had been stuck in the 18th cebtury... And as he blatently said that a woman's place should be at home, helping her husband by making food for him etc... I got absolutely furious, but the sister who gave me bible study calmed me down, and said I took it the wrong way . Stupid me, I should have listened to my own furious feelings....

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And the world shall tremble in the wake of the Blue Bubblegum
Dutch District Overbeer

blondie

The one the CO gave recently at the assembly comparing JWs to elephants being trained by being hooked up to a post with a chain and learning how far they can go.

The talk at the same assembly given by the DO saying that all non-JWs are corpses and marrying and/or kissing one is kissing a corpse.

Blondie

Special K

Hey, run don't walk

The one I remember was a talk given at an assembly on cleanliness.

He talked alot about "bathtubs"!!!!! and how the bothers and sister need to have clean bathtubs in there homes... DOH!.. I was in my early teens, and was trying to figure out if they were going to come to my mom and dads house and check the bathtub.

There was an elder who measured skirts at the back at the hall one time when I entered.. so I thought well.. they're going to look at bathtubs, too.

special K

xjw_b12

There was an elder who measured skirts at the back at the hall one time when I entered.. so I thought well.. they're going to look at bathtubs, too.

That would have been Bro. Merv the Perv. Every cong. had 1 or 2 of those. Usually first picks to sit in on JC's

Any talks from the hall or assembly still stick out in your mind ???

C.O. crica 74/75. (Paraprhase} "Brothers, in the overall scheme of things, the end of this wicked system of things is only minutes away"

yxl1

For some reason, the only talk I can recall was the one about sexual relationships (the do's and donts) Watching this poor Elder explain why O-sex was against God while glowing deeper shades of red will always stick in my mind. I would be horrified if someone started talking about such topics infront of my kids now.

Oh, I almost forgot the always entertaining "telling off" talks on a thursday. Whenever someone within the congregation had done something "wrong", there would always be a talk about it. All you had to do was scan the brothers and sisters faces to see who was being refered to. My personal admonition talk was on the dangers of video nasties (I was caught watching the Evil Dead movie), but I'll always remember when two Elders teenage children were caught "arousing" each over. The talk was very very harsh and the elder giving the talk didnt take his eyes off the poor young sister who sat through the entire talk crying. Again, I cant believe people allow their own children to be humilated in public...Sick

Panda

Oh gosh. There are soooo... many memorable talks, but this one that really sticks out was given by an elderly visiting brother. I to this day have no idea what the talk was supposed to be. His talk was about the Donna Reed (sp?) show. Yep, all about episodes showing family life, and how that was a good example...yaddayadddayadda. My husband and I looked at each other with deep confusion. I thought oh! good grief (I didn't say "oh god" at the time) I'm not even wearing a Donna Reed petticoat. After the talk the local power wasted no time in approaching the visitor. I mean they could've waited until after the WTS, who knows what he'd have added to that...Father knows best?

caligirl

Yes- a young almost an elder in the hall I grew up in went to great trouble to explain in painstaking detail the following scenario( must have been a personal experience for him): If you are out in service, and a householder offers you a slice of their child's birthday cake, one would be obligated to refuse the cake because it would be wrong to appear to participate in the celebration of a birthday. But it is ok to eat the cake if it is simply offered as a piece of cake, even if it was a birthday cake, because it was not specifically called a birthday cake when it was offered, so one would not be giving approval to the birthday celebration by eating it. I remember thinking that food is food and who the hell cares what the cake was for!.

smurfette

The very best talk I remember was an elder in our congregation who was a self described former druggie. I am not sure what was exactly his problem but during a Friday night theocratic talk one night he stared off into space for about 5 minutes straight, mouth open, not speaking. No one really knew what to do so he just stood there looking at something we couldn't see until he eventually snapped back to reality. He later explained that he thought he'd had an acid flashback while giving the talk. No one knew how to take his explanation of what happened so it was just kind of let go although the sisters talked about it behind his back for some time.

Bonnie

In the 80's there was a pop group called "Frankie goes to Hollywood".....they had a song out words went like this:

Any talks from the hall or assembly still stick out in your mind ???

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