"People are at their happiest while serving Jehovah."
No, I don't believe that lie. I heard it from many an a$$embly program. I believe instead that people are happiest while using their minds in ways that create value for society and in ways that help them learn the science of how the universe runs.
Now, look what happens during a tract drive. People are given a few weeks to place tracts through the whole territory. The presentation is reduced to a couple of lines, which are given by the Puketower Society. So, during those three or four weeks, life is reduced to going from door to door and getting those tracts into the hands of the people, without any thinking required. In fact, it is so bicameral (one person telling the others what to do) that chimpanzees could do it without any trouble (then again, chimpanzees are not capable of the type of conscious thinking that humans are, and so would be happy in a bicameral mode).
I remember doing a couple of them myself, and I hated it. There were no opportunities to take those coffee or juice breaks, and there was no chance to have the person tie up the other group long enough for me to fog up the car windows. You got one street done, and then went right to the next. The pace was rushed, and people were supposed to stay out extended hours during those tract blitzes.
And, no one had the chance to use their minds. The whole presentation was prepared. You go to the door, knock, and then repeat the presentation that a parrot could easily do. Then place the tract, and move on to the next door. Repeat. No use of the mind whatsoever. Street work with the tracts was just as bicameral: Find person, approach with the tract, repeat the presentation, hand tract, look for the next target.
And people are supposed to be at their happiest like this? I don't think so. I personally would be happier in an office looking for (and finding) a cure for cancer, a way to get to Mars in three hours, a vitamin that would do in a week what Jehovah's Tyranny promised to do to the body in a thousand years, or some way to usurp global warming to recapture the energy and make some more petroleum (and keep it up as long as global warming is a problem). Doing those things requires real thinking, since no one has ever been there before (hence, really pioneering). And it would benefit people in the real world. And, it would use my mind in the way it was intended to be used. For sure, that would beat the crap out of going out and placing those tracts. In fact, I would rather be in the dentist's chair than out there placing those tracts.
What is notable about this is the number of those campaigns lately. They had one last fall that was supposed to start the Great Tribulation (yea, that really worked--that was supposed to have started in 2006, and it is more than halfway through 2007). They then had another blitz for the 2007 Crapmorial, and then another for the 2007 Grand Boasting Session (that, according to the 2006 session wasn't supposed to have been). Already I am hearing about tract blitzes for the 2008 Crapmorial (again, from the threads about the 2007 one, was not supposed to be), and a blitz for the 2008 Grand Boasting Session (which is not supposed to be planned for, since no formal announcement for the a$$embly of 2008 has been made) is probable. And there could well be another tract campaign this fall that has yet to be announced.
So much for people being at their happiest in service. No wonder people in that organization are depressed. And, the more of those tract blitzes that come out, the worse the problem is going to be.