Quarterback said:
Bobcat, that was very good listening skill. So, JWGonebad is right. The word discreetly was used at your location. I missed it, apparently. It would be interesting to see how the GB interprets this.
It helped that I was tipped off by this thread. My wife and I sat in the upper regions of the arena (due to size of the crowd). The lighting up there was very poor. More suited to watching a game than following along in one's Bible. So I concentrated on analyzing the program and where it was headed rather than try to look up the verses they often asked you to look up. Many of the verses they used I already knew (and often was able to tell my wife which verse to look up before the speaker said). I think I pay attention and analyze what I hear at the KH and assemblies far more than the average JW does. Of course, my form of critical analysis is not WT approved. It takes some effort to try to listen and not get mentally annoyed at their propaganda methods.
It was also interesting to watch the program on the big screen TVs. Once you got used to that you rarely looked at the actual stage. This arena had two big screens on either side of the stage and also big screens on the score-board(?) that hung directly over the ball-court.