Studying all the different umbrella patterns was a favorite past time. I would count how many of each type of umbrella I could spot in each section and then add them up for the grand total. It was interesting too, because each year you could notice a new umbrella pattern or style that had just come out in the stores - what JW had the monopoly on the umbrella business?
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66Passing the time at JW Assemblies
by Leolaia inlove_truth, in describing the utter dullness of jw assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread.
what were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass?
some of mine: looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.looking for people i knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroompractice writing people's names in elvish scripthaving a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forthseeing how many pages of my bible stick together when i slam a wad of gum in between its pages.. what else?
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Driving to Meeting
by CaptK inthis is a classic !
i am currently disfellowshiped and have been attending the sunday meetings at the kingdom hall for the last 2 years.
i am in my mid to late 40's.
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4JWY
actually, NOT ALL OF US!! (/STEPFORD WIVES)
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Driving to Meeting
by CaptK inthis is a classic !
i am currently disfellowshiped and have been attending the sunday meetings at the kingdom hall for the last 2 years.
i am in my mid to late 40's.
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4JWY
Yes, it's the "Men's club" and all we women were the "Stepford Wives".
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Favorite Tunes
by kat2u ini was just wondering what music you like?
which artists?.
and any new albums you personally have and think are good!
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Classic: Pink Floyd
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Covering up bathroom mirrors at the assemblies!!!
by nojudgement inthis was one of the craziest things i remember about the summer conventions.
i would go into the sister's bathrooms and the mirrors would all be taped up with brown paper so that we couldn't look at our reflections.
were were amish or something?
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4JWY
and before the Smurfs, there were the Trolls!
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Covering up bathroom mirrors at the assemblies!!!
by nojudgement inthis was one of the craziest things i remember about the summer conventions.
i would go into the sister's bathrooms and the mirrors would all be taped up with brown paper so that we couldn't look at our reflections.
were were amish or something?
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Also we had the "out of order" signs put on candy and soda vending machines to try to scare you off from purchasing a snack!
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Passing the time at JW Assemblies
by Leolaia inlove_truth, in describing the utter dullness of jw assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread.
what were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass?
some of mine: looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.looking for people i knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroompractice writing people's names in elvish scripthaving a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forthseeing how many pages of my bible stick together when i slam a wad of gum in between its pages.. what else?
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betweenworlds: You are definitely providing our entertainment here tonite - LOL lots!
Additional BINGO WORDS:
Appreciate
Do we not?.....
Fight the fine fight
Destroy
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Passing the time at JW Assemblies
by Leolaia inlove_truth, in describing the utter dullness of jw assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread.
what were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass?
some of mine: looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.looking for people i knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroompractice writing people's names in elvish scripthaving a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forthseeing how many pages of my bible stick together when i slam a wad of gum in between its pages.. what else?
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Leolaia thanks for the welcome. Yes, assemblies were day and night........... till 9 p.m. and then with the overtime last speaker......................oh, and the final prayer. My son used to time that final prayer too!! I should post one of his charts as I've saved some of them for some more laughs.
The most excitement I ever had as a kid was when the person behind me had a seizure and was grabbing my head and shoulders, moaning and drooling.
My husband just reminded me of the time at the summer outdoor stadium during one of the long drawn out final prayers, a seagull swooped down and crapped on a sleeping kid's head, waking him up, the kid starts fussing, the dad tells him to cut the crap, and the kid says, "but Dad, something's on my head!!!" Finally as the father feels the kid's head he realizes the kid had reason to be fussing! It's a TRUE story.
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We had enough "emotional manipulation" from all the years "in" so refuse to subject ourselves to more of it by seeing this film.
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Passing the time at JW Assemblies
by Leolaia inlove_truth, in describing the utter dullness of jw assemblies and conventions, just gave me an interesting idea for a thread.
what were some of the ways you tried to make the hours pass?
some of mine: looking at the interesting refracting patterns the arena floodlights made on my eyeglasses when looking thru them at an angle.looking for people i knew from my congregation and others in the mass of people in the arena.counting the number of people leaving the section to go to the bathroompractice writing people's names in elvish scripthaving a conversation with friends a row behind me by passing notes back and forthseeing how many pages of my bible stick together when i slam a wad of gum in between its pages.. what else?
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This has all been too funny!! It has drawn me in to being a first time poster - I was a lifer to age 50, having raised my kids "the only way I knew how"... Faded out about a year now - thankfully, kids are out too and never had done the obligatory to parents thing of baptism - all enjoying life with no accidents or cancers occurring yet as prophecied to happen when you leave.
Assembly memories:
In the 60's with the long...........assemblies, wasn't it 8 days in Milwaukee? - anyway, full on meals were served and all the food was prepared under the big tents to feed the thousands at lunchtime. How we looked forward to peeling potatoes and snapping green beans DURING the program! Also, banging the big tin trays around that the meals were served on, wrapping the silverware in napkins. They usually had big speakers out and around but fortunately the sound was of pretty poor quality so we didn't have to actually hear it. The brothers (chefs so to speak) were stirring the big pots of beans or whatever and taking nips regularly from their stash of bottles under the counters. All my years growing up I remember this at every assembly in the kitchen. My folks even documented it in photos.
My son's favorite activity during the session from the time he learned to tell "time" at about 3 - was to TIME every single speaker, making a complicated chart of what the actual length of the talk was supposed to be, what the actual time length WAS, and then, a colume that showed how many minutes or seconds the guy went OVERTIME! He would excitedly be nudging me and pointing at his watch or timer that he brought to inform me that "this guy is a loser, he went OVER HIS ALLOTED TIME!" He did this up until 18 years old - along with filling in (like on a scantron sheet), EVERY letter in EVERY WORD in the study book or WA being studied at the meeting. The org. stimulates OCD symptoms!!