Could you 'Wake Up Happy' if you were an active Witness, knowing what you know now? (A 2012 Convention invitation) (page 3)

breakfast of champions

"A LIVE PLAY WILL BE PRSENTED AT THE CONVENTION"

Really? That's what you call it? A "LIVE PLAY"?

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Did you think they'd be honest and admit that it's a "pre-recorded propagandist lip-sync melodrama"?

@scenicviewer - The "'Wake up happy every morning, with positive thoughts'" thingy is in the future, not now!! And as Billy the ex said "will require the brutal murder of billions of innocent men, women, and children?" Isn't just sooo exciting??

sinedie

When my mum asked me will I go to the convention, I thought "No way", and that's my answer to your question.

Maybe there were times when I thought I was happy as an active Witness, but I don't think I really was. How can anyone be happy being an active witness knowing the truth about the WTS, their hypocrisy and how many lives have been ruined due to their teachings?

The problem is knowing what I know now is not making me happy either. I feel like everything has been taken from me, being raised as a witness, I never celebrated anything, never had close "wordly" friends that I could turn to now, and my family and friends feel sorry for me as I am "spiritually weak". I can finally understand how those people felt who were standing at the exit of the convention arena.

PaintedToeNail

sinedie, Just about all of us know exactly what you are talking about. After about a year of a fade, I am really much happier now, though my friend count is down. My own mind is no longer plagued with guilty feelings about not liking the status quo the borg feeds people. Give yourself time.

BluesBrother

"What is true love?"

NB around here people are often casually or warmly addressed as "Love".....So it could be saying "What is true,.........Love?"

I wonder if the same pictures of apparently sunny California will be used on the U K brochure? It does not look like us at all

Witness My Fury

Jeeez, sure glad I'm out and dont have a bundle of these vomit inducing leaflets to distribute to the general public, neither do have to waste my time at a 3 day fake happyness guilt fest session being told what I should and shouldn't be doing, thinking and feeling.

outsmartthesystem

- Could you 'Wake up happy every morning, with positive thoughts' knowing what you know now about the Watchtower Organization?

Yes. I am very happy that I am no longer a part of that disgusting cult

- What things would prevent that?

Knowing that my wife is very much still in the borg

- Did you ever wake up happy as an active Witness?

Yes.....when I was blissfully ignorant of the the REAL Watchtower organization

lrkr

Sounds like an invitation to be brainwashed and hypnotized. And the picture of the mindless drones sitting listening without reaction to the program just adds to the message.

Really looks culty to me.

Fernando

A recruitment drive to stem bleeding of young informed persons in first world countries?

Convention picketing billboard 1: "Read up on 'legalism' in the Watchtower!" (a summary of ISOCF)

Convention picketing billboard 2: "Read up on 'an experiment that failed' in the Watchtower!" (another summary of ISOCF)

Could you 'Wake Up Happy' if you were an active Witness, knowing what you know now? (A 2012 Convention invitation)