most HATED thing about the meetings ... (page 2)

Free2Bme

Hi,

Where do I start?

I hated talks on contributions that made you squirm. I hated the boxes at the back and brothers who poked notes in the crack when you were waiting to stick a quid in LOL.

I hated end of the month meetings when I got chased round the hall for my report which I was too embarrased to put in . About the same time I would be dodging the brother on the mag counter who got high blood pressure over my thickening pile that I couldn't afford to collect and knew I'd never place!

And more than anything I hated being in the Ministry School. The stomach churning moment when you are handed your slip and you know without checking it will be on the platform not in the side room and your householder will be sister Superspiritual who will ring you every other day to see if the talks ready to go over and you haven't even looked at the blooming material yet! (how many times did you go over it hurriedly in the toilet before the meeting?)

Must stop myself...

Free

spider

Having to do a prayer at a moments notice.If there are five brothers at the book study - one reads, and one opens then you have a one in three chance.You get the tense stomach.You try to avoid eye contact but no!!!
"Bro....would you close for us." Damn

Rex B13

>I was wondering what it is that you hated most about the meets ?
The one thing that used to really rile me was the pressure to control the children - the frowns and the disapproving looks when they were just behaving like normal kids ...
The worst of it all for me was seeing any little person being taken outside and hearing the loud slaps even when the door was closed ...

Yes, keeping babies and toddlers in hour or two hour boring meetings is one of the worst things about the Watchtower. There are also so many women bring kids alone, three or four or more. Then you have the Theocratic Police who are always happy to take some kid out and slap them for you! Churches have activities for kids that are at their level and most would not think of making them stay out in the sanctuary for sermons.

>What is it that YOU least miss?

Thursday night after meeting beer and pizza with my friends, who are friends no longer.
Rex

individuals wife

The things I hated most about the meetings... mmm, how long have you got?

Trying to find a pair of tights/hose that didnt have a run in them...

The cheap toilet paper in the ladies toilet...

The hard seats...

When it was too hot and you sat there drooping...

When it was too cold and no-one came in early to put the heating on...

Realising you had forgotten your song book and having to mime..badly..

Going with a stinking cold because you didnt want to appear weak...

Sitting in a windowless hall when you know it is sunny outside...

Having to listen to children whining they want to go home (so did I)..

Agreeing to pay the COs expenses (?!?!?!)...

Getting told you are on cleaning duty .... again...

Need I go on.... I dont think so. Nuff said.

jelly

Heres a list:

(1) The sound of kids getting spanked; it was so loud you could hear it at the front of the hall when they were getting whipped in the back.

(2) The false kindness. Anyone that was inactive for a bit before they left should know how this feels. The people that would not acknowledge you outside the hall, because you were 'bad association', would give you a little cold and tight lipped smile when you showed up to the meeting hall.

(3) The formal dress attire. I always thought it was pointless; it makes more sense to dress for comfort and not for show.

(4) The length and consistancy of the meetings. All the information in a 2 hour Sunday meeting could have been delivered in 30 minutes or less.

(5) The politics of the collective. Grown adults getting upset because they were not called on to answer a question.

Jelly (Just the first five that came to mind)

LovesDubs

I hated having to go AT ALL. Hated having to go out in the cold after just getting home from work. Hated having to make excuses when I didnt want to go. Hate the politics, hated having to be NICE when I didnt WANT to be nice. Hated pantyhose. Hated the boring repetitive music, magazines, subject matter, banter. Hated the controlling regulated do as we say not as we do elders.

Ugh..why in gods name did I ever sign onto the Titanic?

zev

i hate them all.....cuz they keep waking me up dammit!

-Zev
-August 8th, 2001 - The day the lambs ROARED

Kat_

I specifically remember growing up and witnessing A LOT of spankings/beatings. Even outside the KH...my mother would take me to a sister's house where the two women would be having coffee, etc...a social visit...and it seemed like EVERY single time we went out, one of the kids I played with would end up 'getting it'...usually within our line of sight, sometimes right in front of me and my mom. Once I was in the KH bathroom and one of the notorious 'meanie' mommies brought her little girl (maybe 2 or 3 years old) in and, pardon my language, beat her ass. I was too scared to leave the stall because I was embarrassed and uncomfortable--For some reason I didn't want the woman to know I was there--(I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time) so I had to sit there hiding and waited it out. Thinking of it today makes me ill. That was by far the #1 thing I hated about the whole JW experience.

Second hated thing: It is funny how when you are going to meetings regularly and doing everything they want you to, everyone is SO friendly and treat you like family. Imagine being 15 with no worldly friends and your family becomes somewhat irregular in attendance--I basically became the 'uncool' kid. Nobody invited me anywhere. That sucked.

Kat

Kristen

Before I hit my teenage years, I dreaded attending meetings. Long boring study sessions with books & magazines in my lap that were way beyond my comprehension. Plus having to stay up late for it all. Thank goodness for My Book of Bible Stories and Juicy Fruit gum. Never allowed to sleep or draw. I did learn that you shouldn't put Tic Tacs in your nose though...

I remember all of the Tues/Thurs nights when dinner was running late. It would get past 6:30 p.m. and my older brother would sit across the dinner table and mouth to me "eat sloooow". It worked a few times to get us out of the meetings. Those nights were full of so much freedom. Play with friends, watch TV, and not have to dress up.

Don't miss meetings one bit. Everything that I've learned through 25 years of repetition is still stored on my hard drive (brain).

Kristen

Prisca

I miss least of all, the boring talks. We seemed to have speakers that took no interest at all in making them the slightest bit interesting.

Back in the 70s, speakers used to make use of large posters of bible characters and diagrams and things. Not encouraged these days?

I also hated hearing talks that were straight out of the Reasoning Book, with no interesting extra info given to give it that edge. Nope. No inspiration.

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