The view from Sydney: Badge cards everywhere!

ozziepost

Mrs Ozzie and I are having a day in the city. The roads are jammed with Xmas shoppers and the dubs' sighteeing coaches! It's a nightmare! Badge cards everywhere!

The Witnesses are having their International Convention at the Sydney Olympic Stadium this week.

Presumably the poor unsuspecting population will forget what they saw on Channel Nine last year where it was shown that the Witnesses are a paedophile paradise.

I'll give them credit for a decent message though - "Give God Glory" - now wait, don't the Moslems do that too?

Cheers, Ozzie

Stephanus

What are badge cards? Can one get into the convention without one?

Valis

just carry your books and mags and smile ...jehover will make it all good..

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

Stephanus, you can get in without one, but expect to be approached. Whether you decide to present yourself as an inactive JW, a new Bible student, a curious non-JW attender, is up to you. As long as you don't create a scene, you should be able to get in. I was told that there have been bomb threats in the past at Australian conventions (and a KH bombed a few years back).

Blondie

benext

Anyone wanting a lapel card can simply go to the lost and found and pick one up. Unless things have changed in the last couple of years they would put them right on the tables along with the lost songbooks, Bibles, etc.

Panda

I usually didn't wear my name tag, I just have a problem with name tags... Maybe I need professional help? Anyone can go to an assembly. Especially on sunday for the public talk. If you sit in the nose bleed section dubs will figure you're DF'd.

Stephanus, don't do it, you'll beat yourself up for the swollen ankles and sore butt.

undercover

I usually didn't wear my name tag, I just have a problem with name tags... Maybe I need professional help? Anyone can go to an assembly. Especially on sunday for the public talk. If you sit in the nose bleed section dubs will figure you're DF'd.

I can't remember the last time that I wore a name tag to an asembley/convention. Even when I was a good little dub. I've always had a problem with them too. The faithful, loyal dubs around town looked silly wearing them things to dinner and the mall after the sessions. Because of that, I won't wear any name tage at all unless its for work functions where they're used to gain entrance to a trade show or something like that.

I've never had a problem in not wearing badges at the assemblies. No one has ever accosted me or followed me because I wasn't wearing one. Even the last couple of assemblies when I had a beard/goatee, no one bothered me. I kept a closer eye out for the "black dot" security guys at the last convention and I didn't see anyone watching or following. I think sometimes we get a little too paranoid.

cruzanheart

I quit wearing name tags because those large, cheap pins made green holes in my nice silk dresses. How the hell did they expect me to catch the mythical and ever-elusive Witness millionaire pioneer in a silk dress with HOLES? Silly people.

Nina

simplesally

Nina, dear, I simply hot glued mine to my barrette in my hair, that way when brothers were checking out my butt, they could see my name. When viewing me from the front, I had my bible in my hands and of course, my name was engraved in oversize letters on the cover.

TresHappy

I used to wear my lapel pin proudly, especially over my new push-up bra!