Book Studies in Your Home

Xena

I'm curious (was reading the other thread about book studies and got to pondering) who had a book study group in your home and what was it like. And did you go to any homes where they made you take your shoes and socks off and put on slippers or anything like that?

We had one in our home....got counciled about having the demonic disney movies out, but for the most part it was a pretty good experience. We used to have a goodie night once a month, yum! If nothing else some of those dubs do know how to cook! lol one bookstudy we had used to do an entire dinner together once a month.

My parents though had one at their house with some of the most unruly children attending. Jumping on the sofa, overflowing the toilet with paper and their parents just sitting there doing nothing!

Phantom Stranger

It was a good reason to keep the house tidy. Wow...hadn't remembered that for years, til you brought it up. Everyone was well-behaved...I don't think Mom would have tolerated anything else.

I grew up thinking all families had folding chairs stashed away somewhere...:)

got my forty homey?

Our home was used as a bookstudy for many years. One night one of our fuses went out and it took a half hour to fix it so the study was cancelled! Great! Fabulous! One day I was taking a dump in the bathroom and my parents thought I was playing in my room, so they kept calling me and then when I came out and told them what I was doing they asked my (in front of the entire bookstudy) go back and finish, we will wait for you, are you sure you were finished!

LOL

The horror of my childhood.

ThiChi

I had a Book Study...it was fun, afterwards, we played darts. However, when we started studding the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived Book, I was on my way out, thinking how the Chapters on Jesus condemning the religious leaders of his day, really fit some in my area and the WT in general.....

talesin

We always had the book study in our house ...

There was one 'brudder', married w/ 3 kids. He used to sit and pick his nose, then roll it between his fingers, and flick it.

Then he would 'clean' his nails w/ his teeth.

EVERYBODY knew it, he was never counselled. It was all I could do at times to sit there without puking.

Also, we had a shortage of *men* in our congo, so sometimes *women* would conduct.

What did I like about it? Got to 'read the paragraphs' sometimes (yeah, bookworm here) and actually got some recognition for good reading skills, etc. (being a *girl*, this was about the only recognition I got, except for my latest outfit, of course).

tal

maxwell

While growing, it was held in my parents house for as long as I could remember. My dad was an elder and he conducted it until he stepped down from elder. At that time they also moved the bookstudy from our house. We held a few after bookstudy eating and socializing sessions at my parents house, but it didn't happen that often.

Then I moved here. They loved to have goodie nights at the bookstudies I attended in this area. I know at least two bookstudies that would have goodie nights once a month. It was mostly sweets sometimes interesting ethnic dishes and junk food at my bookstudy, but a few full fledged dinners but another bookstudy would have full dinners once a month and they were at the KH and would use this room in the back to keep the food. There happened to be a microwave and small fridge back there that would be used by the pioneers sometimes. At one goodie night the conductor asked me to bring my saxophone so after we finished the bookstudy, he played his piano and we jammed a little on none JW songs.

Edited to add: Oh forgot to mention, in two home bookstudies I went to they always asked us to remove our shoes. Had to make sure I had fresh socks.

Mary

There was one 'brudder', married w/ 3 kids. He used to sit and pick his nose, then roll it between his fingers, and flick it.

Well at least he didn't eat it

There was one elderly brother in our group who used to bring his "cough syrup bottle" with him every week. Strangely enough, it smelled suspiciously like whiskey. He used to swig from the bottle 5 or 6 times during the bookstudy whereas the Conductor and me used to look at each other and then try not to laugh our asses off. We actually had the bookstudy at my place for a while. During the summertime, we'd have the study from 7:00pm - 7:45pm and then we'd go swimming after in our in-ground pool. And yep we had goody-night too. Our bookstudy attendance was the best in the whole congregation which obviously pissed off the rest of the elders because their attendance sucked dead rocks. When the CO told the rest of them off about having low attendance, they got together and split our group up. Talk about a bunch of insecure morons.

flower

We had the book study and saturday service meeting in our house for most of my childhood probably for most of 20 years. It was cool only because that was ONE night where we didnt have to go out to the meeting lol .

We had the occasional after meeting gathering with desserts ect. Once I started to fade away though having the meeting at our house got annoying because I would have to stay in my room for the whole night if I didnt want to go. Book study was one of the most boring of all the meetings....no songs, no demonstrations, no nothing..just reading and commenting. I tried to get into it but some of those books made NO sense at all. And sitting through studies of the 'family' book, which they did every several years, became more and more torturous as I got older and realized what a horrible hypocrite my father and most of the elders were.

Xena

You didn't like the bookstudy flower? It was my favorite meeting....smaller, more intimate and only an hour!

There was one 'brudder', married w/ 3 kids. He used to sit and pick his nose, then roll it between his fingers, and flick it.
Then he would 'clean' his nails w/ his teeth.
EVERYBODY knew it, he was never counselled. It was all I could do at times to sit there without puking.

ROFL tal that is just NASTY!

Goodie night seems to have been pretty universal. We had one "brother" that would pull out the booze after the fuddy duddies left, that was interesting...

I liked having the Saturday morning bookstudy, cause then you got such a late start out in service you only had to go like an hour. Gave you an extra night during the week to do fun stuff

truman

I had Book Study in my home for the last three years that I was an active JW. It was one of the first things I had to figure out how to get disentangled from when I found my self AWAKE! from the Witness mind control. We had a decent time at it, some goodie nights, and I enjoyed having people come to the house. I will admit to being one of those who made people take off their shoes (not socks). I have a very light colored carpet and most people are not careful about how they wipe their feet. Some grumbled at first, but they got used to it. In our cong., it was not always easy to find homes for the BS, so I guess they figured they better cooperate, since they had a place to go.

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