quick builds

by loosie 16 Replies latest jw experiences

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  diamondblue1974

  I was a wee strap of a lad (10) when the congregation I attended had a quickbuild, I remember the 2 miles there and back I walked to get to pre build (couldnt afford a bike at the time) and the wellies I was forced to wear rubbed on my legs so that I had blisters which eventually became infected... I remember sneaking off with other lads to play in the fields behind where the hall was to be, there was a hill and we used to hide up there so the others couldnt find us...we had rope swings...playdens, fires...the works...

  I do remember the PO stomping over at one point saying that we should be on the brick chain and not playing...(what an arse he was). The most fun I had was when one of the Joiners was using a dumper truck and I managed to sit on it with him....best fun I had in ages.

  For the most part it wasnt a bad time...just bloody hard work for a 10 year old...

  DB74
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  loosie

  and how we all had to donate our gold earrings and wedding rings - like we was building Solomons Temple

  Katie, why did you have to donate jewelry?
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  andy2tanx

  we had to donate jewllerey if we couldnt give all our cash due to having important things to buy like bread and water...
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  googlemagoogle

  they get inspected by JEHOVAH himself! anytime.
  
  btw: the "quick-builds" always were the biggest mess i've ever seen. the only good thing about it was the food. and the nice sisters :-)
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  TheOldHippie

  Some have firms or work so close with inspectors that the right is transferred to them.
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  watchtower_and_afake

  Like a Amish barn raising, you dont want to have to much inbreeding so what do you do, Hey have a quick build. New babes, new submissive wenches just ripe for the pickin!! When you went to Kingdom Hall did you ever notice how many families are related in one way or the other? My old Kingdom Hall just about half the congregation was related in some fashion or another.
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  katiekitten

  We had a brother at our KH who used to say that we didnt really know what wed be like when we were perfect because we were so far away from perfection now, and for all we knew perfect humans might have six fingers. I think it started off as an example but almost became doctrine in our cong. Well imagine what you could do with an extra digit - pick your nose AND scratch you ear, write two different letters at once with one hand, count to 12, the possibilities are endless.

  It wasnt until I moved to Gloucester and realised that inbreeding on the forest resulted in 6 fingers that I began to wonder...