by JH 69 Replies latest jw friends
Is Shasta soda like the cheap pop Peter Kay talks about his mum buying from the supermarket - 8 litres of Rola Cola for £1?
Maybe they should have speacial beating rooms for kids. They could even assign a ministereal servant to administer the beating, so that the parents dont miss any of the precious programme. They'd have to have a rota, cos their arms would start to ache.
I guess it depends on the facilities. By the time we were going to conventions on a regular basis, it was a new facility, AC that worked, nice seats, plenty of seating, plenty of parking and restrooms. I remember one year we switched to a ball park and that was the pits; but then it was back to the nice place again. If it was too hot my mother stayed in the room, especially after someone died from heatstroke one year.
"Is Shasta soda like the cheap pop Peter Kay talks about his mum buying from the supermarket - 8 litres of Rola Cola for £1?'
Yes, Shasta soda was cheap pop. I haven't seen it in years so it might not be around any more. But that might also be due to the fact that I haven't had a soda in years.
am enjoying everyone's comments....i thought i had adhd (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) because I couldn't sit still for three days. don't miss them a bit...regret all the $ i spent that our family didn't have.
ooh I just love this post. I hated assemblies. I would volunteer so I didn't have to listen to sessions. The talks were long and boring and hot. There was one thing I liked and that was staying at our hotel and swimming. I enjoyed the drama's but as the years progressed they seem less and less inspiring.
Dear dear Rat you stated that in 1987 or 1988 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal was brutal. Actually there was an international assembly there in 1978 in which there were 87,000 persons and again in 1985 was a national assembly and their were 78, 000 in attendance and it was so f***ing hot you could fry an egg on the podium or the person beside you. God how we endured is beyond me.
In 1969 in Buffalo War Memorial Stadium was one of the worst conventions I can remeber and it only seems like it was yesterday. They had a major clean up and that place was so stinking filthy until it was spick and span by the witnesses. The seats were wooden seats and your ass*trics was so sore after an all day and night sessions that went on for 8 days. My mom was a miserable bitch and my father was a lost soul with all us girls hogging the bathroom in our small motel room in the getto. Everything was barracaded with heavy metal frames and bars around the windows and doors of stores everywhere. That whole area of Buffalo was stinky. I couldn't stand it . My mom would nag and nag and pick on us kids and we didn't do anything wrong we were four girls who actually got along. Until we were older and that is another story for another day
But I did love going out to eat and drink. But even as an early teen in the organization I wasn't allowed any girl friends into our home and when I had my first date it was with a group of four of us and we went to the movies. That date was a fiascco. And I was n't allowed to sit with friends at the assemblies even when I was 18 years old. God that was awful. My parents were something else.
Wasn't being a JW alot of fun???????hehehe
lots of love
orangefatcat.
I think many witnesses dread going to the assemblies. However, there are many others that have absolutely no life whatsoever, so they may actually enjoy them.
But for the majority, I don't think they like it. But they will never admit it.
3 days are bad enough!
You should have been around when they were much longer. If I remember right.....back in the 1970's we had 4 day conventions. And I'm pretty sure that before that..they were 7 days, like back in 1958 at Yankee Stadium.
It all seems so distant to me now. Waste all your vacation time to sit, sweat, nod in agreement, and clap your hands to wake up.
At least I had a lot of fun in food service until the self-righteous a**holes in charge made us get serious.
Any fun I ever had as a JW ended when I became a MS and totally destroyed my trust when I became an elder.
I guess you can say that I was reborn as a human once I resigned as an elder and really became a new creation when I left being a JW.
HappyDad
I guess that these assemblies are there to show the commun JW, that there are many other JW's out there. It's meant to be a form of encouragement, that they aren't alone.
Unless they come out with new light, or a new book, it's nothing but an ordinary meeting in a different place with different people....just like having sex in a different place....lol
using bino's to scour the seats pretending you are trying to see the stage.
I remember the 'Pay Attention' talk at every assembly because of those binos the brothers were scouting sisters with. hehehe
Yes, Shasta soda was cheap pop. I haven't seen it in years so it might not be around any more. But that might also be due to the fact that I haven't had a soda in years.
The last time I needed to go to a supermarket in Idaho (which was a few years ago), they had tonnes of Shasta cola. So it's still there. But the last time I went down to the States, I didn't go into a supermarket (only restaurants and pizza places).
