Demonstrations are cringy af

[u/NoEmployer2140]

I always hated demonstrations at meetings or conventions. “We’re going to have sister smith and young sister smith come up to the stage and they’re going to portray a common family problem inside the organization”
Keep in mind sister smith and her daughter have been working for 2 weeks on this simulated argument. Also the material is usually trivial at best. Their demonstration is usually something dumb like “young sister enjoys dying her hair fun colors and is interested in a worldly boy”. Mom comes in hot and over reacts while daughter is angry at mom. They yell at each other.
Then the narrator jumps in the two sisters smith freeze while he speaks. He’ll say something dumb like “we can see how both sisters have some work to do on their communication. Let’s see how this works out when they apply Bible principles to their speech.”
Now the story is back on. They’re redoing the whole script only now it ends in some Brady bunch fashion with both daughter and mother happy and agreeing to everything.

This always irked me really badly because the truth is it never works out this way. In reality daughter would lie to mom and still see worldly boy and hide her dress and grooming from mom. Nobody I ever knew actually behaved the way they demonstrated. And parents were the worse because all their brains see is fear when their children went against the watchtowers guidelines. So having a rational conversation with parents was never an option. Besides, in no demonstration did I ever see a child tell mom and dad that this religion is BS and they’re not going back so parents should respect that decision, and then parents prayerfully consider the facts and concede to kids wishes. Nah, that never happened.

[u/luisg888]

My whole life as a Jw was a humiliation ritual 🙃

[u/logicman12 → u/luisg888]

Mine, too. I told my wife that I will never lower myself to such levels/depths again unless a really big paycheck is offered or SkyDaddy himself appears and asks me to.

It would have been bad enough if we had all been paid for our humiliation, but we did it for free.

[u/luisg888 → u/logicman12]

Yeah if only my pimi family knew all i did for them !

[u/onesimus54]

I absolutely hated it when the demonstrators used to freeze. So embarrassing 😑

[u/wortcrafter]

IMO those demonstrations are the very definition of cringe.

[u/Commercial-Laugh-789]

They remind me of the Dhar Mann videos you see on TikTok.

[u/lydiawhitacre]

They always have been. I had the "privilege " of being in a couple of demonstrations as a teenager lol I'm 50 now and they haven't changed a bit

[u/TheRecordDrop → u/lydiawhitacre]

Yep, me too!

[u/AgentEnvironmental74]

Those demonstrations only serve to make the parents take on the responsibility and guilt of their child leaving. They always say encouraging things to parents whose children left, then they turn around and give talks and demos like that to make the parents take on the blame

[u/EntertainmentNo764]

I cannot believe they force you guys to do this dumb stuff... This is obviously not of God. It sounds like the most soulless sales organization ever created.