How did you get through mind numbing meetings?

by minimus 46 Replies latest jw friends

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  DJS

  Bull Sh** Bingo is awesome! I'm only pis**d that I didn't think of it!! And Rebel8, girl you rock. We can see why you picked your screen name. 

  One thing I noticed during my Borgian days: There is a huge difference between being bored, which I was for most of the years within the cult, and reaching the point where you know it is BS and that the FDS/GB are evil, dark hearted, control freaks. The meetings for me, once I reached this point, became surreal. Every control related comment, and there are always many at any cult meeting, felt like a knife in my brain.

  
  

  
  
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  hoser

  @cappytan

  Then just turned the phone up briefly to see if anyone was disfellowshipped/reinstated or if there were any letters read. 

  Bet you'd spit out your coffee if your name was read
  
  
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  AFRIKANMAN

  Now we all had those who always sat in the same seats at every meeting. and this irked my son [bless his socks now ] who went around the hall re-arranging the seating positions by taking their books / objects they placed on the seats to "reserve" it and placing them randomly around the hall. Used to cause chaos in the hall come meeting start time ! Remember one night 4 return visits of a certain brother [black African men] came in and sat down in the seats formerly reserved by this one family [white and very racially sensitive] as the seats appeared vacant - cos my boy had moved their stuff - they took the RV's to task for sitting in their place !!!!!!
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  James Brown

  When I was a witness, I was going to school to be a court reporter, stenographer.

  I would take my machine to the meetings and practice typing every word that was said.

  I was able to kill two birds with one stone.

   

  I had to practice until I could write two people talking at 225 words a minute.

  It wasn't any more boring than typing jury charges and court testimonies. 
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  James Brown

  I was born in.

  When I was a child I had to go and sit there was no choice.

  Then I married a girl from the hall.

  And I fell for the Armageddon bull crap.

  Once 75 came and went,

  I found any reason I could to not go to the meetings.  
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  BluesBrother

  Not "did" but 'do' , since we both attend when sis. Blues is up to it.  I am an inveterate daydreamer...sad really, but it helps to just put your mind elsewhere. Also I sometimes play word games in my mind - trivial word linking of song titles or band names 

  Whatever gets you through, I guess..Sometimes I even listen !
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  rebel8

  Village Girl, I estimate I was age 11-19 when I did those things.