Being Theocratic Before Meetings

by Nosferatu 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nosferatu

  One thing that my mother was trying to instill in me was to be "theocratic" before the meetings. Many times I would drive me and my mother to the meetings while listening to "Wreckx-N-Effect" or "AC/DC". She would usually give me hell for this and told me I should listen to Kingdom Melodies to get my mind prepared for the meeting.

  Another "problem" was the conversations that went on before meetings (or even on Field Service) where me and someone else my age would be talking about something completely unrelated to the "truth". She would tell me, "You should talk about theocratic things before meetings / when your out on field service". I asked her how to do this. "Well, maybe you could discuss something that you read in one of the publications or in the bible."

  Anyone else ever get this?
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  Gadget

  She would tell me, "You should talk about theocratic things before meetings / when your out on field service".

  Thats one of the reasons I liked going out on the ministry with certain pioneer sistes, because you could bet on how dirty our conversation would become!
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  Agent Smith

  happened all the time
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  got my forty homey?

  When I was a kid I hated waking up Saturday mornings for field service. So I would try to stay in the bed till my Father literally dragged me out. My Father would play kingdom melodies loud to get us going in the house. Being a only child it was basically my Father and I because my Mother always got to get out of a lot of meetings, back pains, periods, and general malaise.
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  Meg

  I always got yelled at for the music I would listen to on the way to the meetings and what my friends and I were talking about before and after the meetings!!! I hated that!! My dad use to play the kingdom melodies in the car on the way to the meeting and we would all have to sing together and then on the way home, we would have to each share what we had learned at the meeting. It was horrible, I use to try so hard to find any excuse why I had to ride with someone else to the meeting!!

  I also dreaded Saturday mornings. My dad would always come wake us up for service and I would try so hard to pretend to be asleep and take a loooonnnnggg time getting ready so that we would have to be late and possibly miss service all together!!
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  NeonMadman

  In the congregation I was in when I was young, there were quite a few who thought that all conversations should revolve primarily around theocratic things, not just conversations at the Kingdom Hall or before and after meetings. We could be at a gathering at someone's house, and if the conversation drifted to a "worldly" topic, they would steer it right back to field service, what the latest WT said, or something else like that.
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  TresHappy

  Oh does this thread bring back bad memories. Sister Blank and I were out one day in service (you know, get a lot of time doing laundrymats) and we stopped at a nearby Braum's for an ice cream. We're sitting there, talking and I see a morning paper at a nearby table and I grab it to read the headlines. Sister Blank looks at me with these fiendish eyes and says "Don't you think you should be looking at a Society publication?" I turned and said "HELL NO!"
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  maxwell

  Music in the car on the way to the hall. I think my mom might have talked to us about this once or twice, but my dad would often play secular music on the way to the hall, nothing to risque, mind you. When I started driving myself, I did try to focus on the meeting, but I must admit to playing rap music on the way to the hall a few times even though my favorite music is jazz. Once I was out in field service with a bunch of other young guys late teens early twenties. We had rural territory where I grew up, so you spend a lot of time in the car. Most of the time if any music was played at all, it would be kingdom melodies, but the guy who was driving the car this time decided to play his own tapes. He had some rap music with all the obsenities you want and in the one of the lines the rapper says something like 'before you step to me, you better be stepping to Jehovah'. In other words, he's even badder than Jehovah. The guy who was driving went on to become a ministerial servant. He's probably an elder now. They were already training him on public talks when I moved away.
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  Lonestar13

  oh yeah! on sunday mornings it was strongly suggested to me by a family member that I should be playing kingdom melodies.

  (on an unrelated note, but related to the absurdity of the above comment, the daughter of that family member stated before the entire congregation in her comment, that the only website that "we as christians should go on is the societies website"
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  shamus

  ROFLMAO, Lonestar! About par for what really goes on in kingdumb halls.