Lately, the bookstudy has been toughest, because we have a conductor who fills that whole hour even though there may only be a few paragraphs to cover. He talks way too much; mercifully, the MS who conducts in his stead gets the thing done in almost half the time. Overall, I had always thought that the bookstudy was an easier meeting to take, but now I see that that is the case only when the conductor keeps things moving. The guy we have now is just killing us with endless droning during nearly every paragraph.
Other than that, a boring speaker during the public talk can be pure agony!
As for the WT Study, I really wish we'd do it WITHOUT reading the paragraphs.
The service meeting can really be boring, especially those parts where there are platform discussions, two or three brothers up there talking about KH building projects for example. And how many demos and new approaches do we really need?
The school gets boring too, especially by the time talk #2 rolls around. And the whole thing about giving and receiving speech counsel in front of the audience always bugged me.
I'd really like to see some "simplification" in the area of meetings. I would like to see just two days/nights out of the week taken up, instead of three. I'd like to see the school and service meeting somehow consolidated into one meeting, with a bookstudy-like discussion to follow. Eliminate bookstudy groups and call them "service groups" instead, just having them meet in smaller groups for service. Then have a public talk and WT study on another day (no paragraph reading) with a total time of 1 1/2 hours.
