So far, the idea is as follows:
Those participating will write a letter to the media. This letter will be a brief story of your life as it pertains to the Watchtower Society. Please, when contemplating what to write, make sure your final draft is THE most honest thing you ever wrote. Ray Franz wrote CoC as an honest account and any reading it could see that there was no anger or bitterness toward the WTS or the Jehovah's Witnesses. Only sadness for those who he'd been cut off from. Sadness for what it meant to those still inside.
Your experience wont be Ray Franz. You'll have your own unique array of emotions and they are important. Write honestly.
I am researching the best choices for news outlets so we can provide a solid list later.
Later. Why later? One of JWN has offered to provide us with an online base of operations. Important details will be shared there because there ARE registered members of JWN waving the Watchtower Society Flag at home.
Until the agreed upon list is made, please offer any suggestions. Offer them here. Offer them to each other in private. Or send requests and suggestions in PM to either myself or Ray Publisher.
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This movement needs a name.
I have my own suggestion of "the Outcry of the Mute." It is inspired by Hans Jonas, who wrote and lectured on the role of God in the lives of the Jews after the Holocaust. While I cannot begin to draw parallels between the murder of 6 million Jews and the day to day of exJWs, the sheer number of exJWs and doubters draws it's own parallels between the victimization of members of both groups. And this name pays mind to the question of the role of society in the lives of Jehovah's Witnesses after the Watchtower Society.
Another user @Emery, who suggested naming the effort in the last thread, offered The Conscious Class Movement. I enjoy that it makes light of the Watchtower obsession with theological heirarchy as well as it's ability to associate with the familiarity of the movement's majority. We are awake. We are aware. We are the Conscious Class.
But this is all about the voice that will speak for us. You guys and girls come up with a name you like and vote on it. On Valentine's Day, whichever name gets the most votes or the most love, congratulations! You gave a name to the voice of us.
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This movement needs a face.
Should the media need a person to speak to, this person will be the face of us. I will play no personal part in the selection process, though I will leave my name available for nomination. This process is important but will not be drawn out.
The nominee must be named by someone other than the nominee.
The nominee must accept the nomination to be voted on. This position entails alot of social responsibility. While most others can invoke any degree of anonymity, this will be the face of TTATT. Should the media run a report, this person will be the face every Blue Pill Witness associates with the enemy. Accepting the nomination isn't an effort to out someone, it's agreeing to be that person to take a stand publicly.
A week from today, I will start a thread listing the nominees who accepted the right to be voted for, and we can vote on the face of our movement.
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I need RayPublisher, BlindersOff1, A Bible Student and Emery to email me at their earliest convenience at [email protected] so I can get some yays or nays on associated projects.
If anyone else can think of anything else we need, please post your ideas here. If you got some nay in you, I'll let you give two nays for every one idea you offer.
Thank you JWN
p.s. As awesome as it sounds, Vast Apostate Army is ineligible for the name of this particular effort.