Typical Assembly program: No social networking, no higher education, no vacation used unless is for seldom-worked or convention, etc.
But a few highlights to note:
1) On Saturday's last talk by the DO, he made a cool illustration. He said "Imagine my wife found a picture of another woman in my wallet. And when she approaches my about it, I say 'Oh, thats only because she reminds me of you.' How well would that fly with her? Would that be acceptable? That's how Jehovah feels about idolatry." Fitting, I thought.
2) Then he went on a rampage against apostates. It sounded as though he made some sort of resolution almost, that we won't listen to them at all. He then did one of those "HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT OUR 'MOTHER' THAT TAUGHT US THE TRUTH....YADA YADA!!?" Everyone clapped. And in my opinion it has the heartiest clap of the entire program.
3) And he kept repeating how some think they know more than Jehovah, by not following his counsel on higher education, social networking and such (which I took as joke, for all obvious reasons.) But of note, it was amazing how many times things that are not clearly discussed in the Bible (not even in principle) were being enforced and being emphasized as directly from Jah. I know this has been going on since inception, but I'm a new apostate, so it amazed me every time, but even worse when it was soaked in as "just what we needed at the right time." How did I not notice this before?
4) There was a talk about speech on Sunday. It included a demo and two brothers were out in service and just finished a door and they started talking about the presentation used, referring to the last days. So the bad brother says "When are these last days going to end? I mean, its been over a hundred years and our understanding keeps on changing, and changing, and changing...."(Everyone laughs.) Then the good brother cuts him off and exclaims "Are you saying the faithful slave is delaying Armageddon?" Thats where they lost me. Because no one has ever said that, but the WTS obviously wants to make any reasoning but theirs seems ridiculous, because the entire audience knows the "faithful" slave has no power to do that. But then at the end of the demo, The good brother brings us a scripture that talks about the generation of Jacob's sons in Exodus. He referred to the fact that Reuben was having kids before Benjamin was born. So the generation encompassed the birth the birth of the oldest (Reuben) until the death of the youngest(Benjamin), thus explaining the overlap. So the bad brother responded "I guess I need to reaffirm my faith and keep up with the current understanding of Jah's org". It was silly. (The speaker said they spoke verbatum from the script too.)
5) Typical 5 minute reminders to Jehovah what the program was about and what we need to work on. Or prayer I guess it's supposed to be.
*Note - My quotes are not word for word exactly, but it was what they were expressing from my memory. If any others attended the Cir. Ass. also, im sure they can verify.