when i was a jw - many moons ago, i hung around the 'sound department' at assemblies.. they finally put me to work - and let me do things like string wire for speakers, install speakers, etc.. i eventually learned how to adjust the amplifiers for proper volume, too.. good experience and training, that i don't use to this day.. anyway - i also was allowed to adjust the microphones for the 'speaker' who would be giving the next talk.. this usually involved following the feller out to the podium, and raising, or lowering the microphone to the proper height fer picking up the words from the fellers' mouth.. some required very little adjustment, whilst others required major raising - or lowering.. this one time, i recall going out there, and they had used a new microphone stand - one that had a ring, or collar arrangement that you just squeezed, or rotated and lifted, to move the microphone up or down, as opposed to the older type that required one to unscrew a locking collar, and then raise or lower the microphone.. i had not tested this previously - and only seen others work it, but it looked easy enough.. so, i follow this 'big-wig' out there, stand there, grab the upper section of the microphone stand with one hand, and then with the other i am attempting to <grunt> <grunt> get it... to ... release.. it wouldn't budge!!!
i was there, for what seemed like an eternity, trying to work this thing, then finally reached up and adjusted the horizontal arm - in a vain attempt to adjust the mic (it also refused to cooperate, and i think i only adjusted the microphone a total of 1/8").. the 'big-wig' speaker musta noticed my total and complete embarrassment (i usually turned beet-red in the face), and nodded that it was adjusted properly - so he could git on with his part.. i skeedadled off that stage - and made a mental note to figure out how to adjust that new type of microphone stand - later..
sheesh!!!
LOL I can so see it in my mind!!!
Yea I wasn't allowed to do that stuff because I wasn't "good enough". Yet when the system blew up, who did they come begging to try to figure out what was wrong with it?? Dang fools can't even splice an XLR properly!
Also funny thing that I own a full sound tech equipment but wasn't allowed to adjust the volume (aka: push the play button at song time).
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in which part of the planet are you?
i'm in the sf bay area, ca, u.s.a. i have been there for 17 years.. how about you?
New Brunswick, Canada... the great land of the bore...
Am I really the only one from NB on here???
as i was growing up,i noticed the dubs at assemblys would clap at the slightest provocation.it looked like a beach full of seals.as soon as a few started,the rest would join in.for some it looked like they just woke up and figured they should start clapping so no one would know they fell asleep.most just looked like seals clapping for a fish.kids notice funny things.did any of you notice dub mass behaviour you found funny...outlaw .
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Plum: it works...
as i was growing up,i noticed the dubs at assemblys would clap at the slightest provocation.it looked like a beach full of seals.as soon as a few started,the rest would join in.for some it looked like they just woke up and figured they should start clapping so no one would know they fell asleep.most just looked like seals clapping for a fish.kids notice funny things.did any of you notice dub mass behaviour you found funny...outlaw .
edited by - outlaw on 20 july 2002 2:51:40edited by - outlaw on 20 july 2002 2:59:1.
OUTLAW: Clappers..... that's where the Old Light and the New Light must be coming from!! With all the clapping that the Dubs are doing, no wonder they keep wish-washing about everything!!!!
Plum: Sorry... big red X...
Xander: I remember doing that too!!! Dang fools we were! Thing is, instead of sitting with our parents, all the cong boys would sit together (just a few rows above all the girls of the cong) so we'd be even more than 6...
Do you remember racing to beat your friend at finding a verse in the Bible! LOL
<p>alright, i'm gonna tell the truth.
my mom is a jw, and i attend the meetings.
i have a study also.
Xander can't be more right.
Being young (I'd like to think I am, I'm the same age as Xander) and having been brought up in the "truth" I know what you feel.
The best advice I can give you is: READ
Stay on this site, read the posts, read some other articles like on
Then you'll be able to figure out on your own if you want to stay there or not. If the decision doesn't come from you then it's not worth jack!
I said "a time" but yes it changed afterwards. Just wanted to clarify that a while back things were different (just like about everything else).
Zev: YGM
Dunno where you guys are from but I clearly remember a time when the publications had a price listed on it!
It was $.75 a peice.... $1.50 if you wanted the WT and A!
jw women have a greater need than jw men to stay ever vigilant and attentive of the watchtower's back and forth rules and regulations which they have the nerve to teach is "new light" from god.
depending on the "new light" from the governing body, if she doesn't scream during a rape, she will be charged by the elders as an adulteress ... someone who may have actually 'enjoyed' the violent act because of her silence.
if another jw woman was raped in 1969 and she didn't scream, she would not be disfellowshipped.
Sentinel posted :
Why can't JW's just listen to our own conscience?
Well that would mean that you are actually thinking on your own... Don't think the elders would like that...
And hawkaw: I can see it too.... Back in school they were always telling us not to use double negatives... well lets try this...
WT Way: "No. If you don't scream you won't be disfellowshipped"
The non-double-negative way: "If you scream you will be disfellowshipped"Did they word it like that so that they had a loophole?
...that men are not allowed to grow beards?.
i don't know if this is true where you live, but where i used to live, it was against "policy" for brothers to have beards.
any man who did have one was looked down upon.
Little story on this: when I was still in the Borg a few years back but very inactive, I came back for one meeting (after about 2 years of absence). I had grown a goatie. One of the elders came to me with hand extended. I figured "Oh, he's gonna ask me where I was and what I did"... I was wrong.... he says: "Hum, you forgot to shave this morning?". I said: "No"... then turned my back to him to go talk to "sister hottie!"...
things must be getting pretty desperate.
i just heard some wonderful news of another boy being appointed a ministerial servant.
the comment was that even though he is young, he is very mature.another person, speaking of a different boy being appointed said that he had the added advantage of being home schooled and that really helped him to mature.
Hey I don't know which cong was the wrong one but I did the mike, sound, literature, lawn, map thing and was never appointed MS. Guess doing +75h in service during school months wasn't enough.
F%@# 'em!
