by badboy 33 Replies latest jw friends
Well let's put it this way... If I was ever persecuted for ANYTHING, whoever was doing the torture would have a seasoned vet on his hands. There's nothing they could do to me that I hadn't already endured tenfold in Dub-land.
Watchtower and Service Mtg. definitely.
I'd rather chew on tin foil
u/d
It seemed like that as a teenager I had my most erotic dreams when I slept during meetings, it was my only consolation for even being there other than the fact my dad kicked my arse out the door and into the station wagon. I slept through the watch tower study, and talk, it was always way too early in the morning for me. ZZZZZZZZ's Shane
were there any moments in you KH hall that were NOT boring !
Well, when I was 17, I tripped walking down the isle during the meeting, and my skirt flew up over my head when I landed. I had more than one 'brother' thank me for the most interesting meeting he had been to in a long time.
*urk*
Jean
Well, when I was 17, I tripped walking down the isle during the meeting, and my skirt flew up over my head when I landed. I had more than one 'brother' thank me for the most interesting meeting he had been to in a long time.
Arrgh poor you ! I think I would have died on the spot of embarrassment - I did that once myself in a cinema going up some steps but luckly it was dark as the film had started lol
Once in our hall after the meeting a sister (who was a bit nutty) was talking to an elder at the front of the hall, and suddenly slapped him across the face - I was at the back and heard the CRACK That was most entertaining lol - so I guess every moment wasnt boring !
As AA said, I liked the funny things people said,
*Our presiding overseer asked us during a book study "what we thought about 'Jehovahs' booty'?"
*A sister in the audience responded to a question regarding what we could do to minimize distractions and she responded (in her German accent) that we could "turn our vibrators off".
stuff like that... also an engaging speaker usually kept a meeting interesting. I think as Eddie Izzard put it it really is 90% how you look and feel rather than what you actually say.
- Preston
This thread reminded me of a game I use to play at the KH. I would look at my watch and then try and count the time in my head and then when I thought 5 minutes had passed look to see how accurate I was. I got a mars bar at school once in a biology lesson for timing one minute spot on. When I left the dubs I had an talent for perfect time comprehension. On the downside when I left the dubs I lost said talent due to substance abuse. Oh well wont need it again.
This is so funny, I did the exact same thing! Funny how counting seconds seemed more interesting than what they were saying on stage...and yeah, I have an amazing time comprehension now, too. I can be somewhere and think "oh, it's been 12 minutes" and it has. Oh, and the comment about everyone being relieved when the speaker didn't show up for Sunday meeting? Yes, yes and yes!! One funny inicident though: this incredibly socially challenged brother started giving a talk, then half-way through said "okay, that's all, I'm done" and walked off stage. We all looked at each other in shock, then he walked back up on stage and said "nah, just kidding" and finished his talk. LOL Poor guy, then he ruined it by going to BETHEL!!! Kitties
It's a terrible sin to put JW children in the same room as a Meeting and a Clock.
CG
Yeah I agree that 99% of the meetings were deadly dull. Taking in all that spiritual food was like eating loft insulation.
I remember I used to answer up slightly wrong answers to lighten things up. I once said that 'Satan keeps transforming himself into an Angel Delight' instead of an angel of light (angel delight was a fruity flavoured milky pudding, I'm not sure if they sell it anymore)... also Jesus's fireworks instead of fine works.... the 12 apostates instead of apostles etc
My mum figured it out in the end that they weren't genuine mistakes and I got a good telling off when I got home.
There was an elderly dude in my cong who wasn't such a hot reader so when he had a bible reading from the old testament with lots of strange Hebrew names in that was always a laugh. It was the fact that if he came to a hard word he would attempt it but eventually make up a word that bore no resemblance to the original.
Me and my brother sometimes used to entertain ourselves by pretending to take notes but actually drawing caricatures of people in the cong.
Oh I remember a kid called James once ran into the guy carrying the tray of wine after the memorial and they were both doused in the emblems. That was pretty funny.
yeah virtually every meeting was boring, but there was this visiting CO by the name of Bro. Roche, who was from Boston and who us Tennesseeans thought had a very interesting accent (in my hometown, anyone who was from out of state had a very interesting accent).
Come on, you know the Boston accent I'm talking about--where they take a vowel and a consonant and make it into a long vowel--like "pahk my cah (park my car)".
The first talk he ever gave in our KH he kept talking about how we "ahll needed to dooo ahr paht (all needed to do our part)" and at the end of the talk we were like, "what the hell is a paht? and this cah he keeps talking about driving around? Hey, you wanna go eat at Hardee's after this?"
Ahh. Those Yankees and their interesting accents. Of course the meetings were still boring while he gave the talks, but he gave my brain something to do as far as translating from Bostonese into Tennesseean.
laters
kaykay_mp
The worst had to be the bible highlights on mosaic law.BORING.Then when it came time to ask what did you find particularly interesting on our reading today their would be about 2 minutes go by before another ms or elder would bail him out and say he really enjoyed
the consitancy on how Jehovah smoked them fools with a quickness LOL just kidding but the comment was always so lame it made you WANT TO LAUGH.
