an Awake from 1993!?

by kristyann 8 Replies latest jw friends

  • kristyann
    kristyann

    Okay, I am in the library at my college and seriously, FIVE MINUTES ago I was walking past some tables in the building right outside the library, these are tables where people just sit and hang out and talk, and sitting on the table was an issue of Awake from 1993! 1993!? Why on earth is someone passing that out? It is like pretty old looking, some of the pages stick (gross) and some of the pages are like bent over (dog-earred). It's the April 8, 1993 issue of Awake and it has this "scientist" guy on the cover and it says "Science: Can It Meet Our Needs?" I can't believe I found that. haha I must have been placed in its path purposely so that I could pick it up and discard it. I am just wondering... does this happen often? Do JWs frequently pass out issues from over a decade ago? Of all of the times I have found their stupid Watchtowers and Awakes in doctor's offices and random places, they have always been very recent issues... I haven't ever seen anything like this before. I am thinking that maybe they decided to place this issue with the topic of SCIENCE in our school because perhaps they think that people at my school are too obsessed with science or something and are relying on it too much, or maybe they think that the picture of the scientist will really hook some college students, lol. However, I have foiled their plan! Maybe I should take a stroll across campus to see if they have placed them anywhere else? Alright, well I was just wondering if anyone else finds old issues placed around ever, cause I never have before.

  • RubaDub
    RubaDub


    Kristy

    Many of us who have pioneered for any length of time ALWAYS (at least in our area) placed magazines from whenever we had them ... a month old, a year old ... or even much longer.

    They still count on the scorecard ..ooppps ... field service report .... as a placement. So leaving magazines at laundramats, doctors' offices, bus stops, etc. counted just as much as a new one.

    Got to keep the numbers up there dear !

    Rub a Dub

  • daystar
    daystar

    Kristy

    That's nothing new really. I left nearly 15 years ago and we were doing that back then. You were not to place current mags at not-at-homes or in public places, but you could leave old ones, no matter how old. We had stacks of 'em.

  • carla
    carla

    How to solve the problem of finding wt's in public places- A. carry stickers that say -Warning- cult reading material (got the idea from this board) B. leave antiwitness in place of wt's.

  • kwintestal
    kwintestal

    Interesting. You know, that article will have still said, "Before the generation who saw the events of 1914 passes away". Sorry, that's all I can think of right now. But remember, the articles never get old, because Jehovah's the editor.

    Kwin

  • Oroborus21
    Oroborus21

    I used to have stacks and stacks of WT and Awakes and I am sure that this was common. I always hated "throwing them in the garbage" knowing how some poor Iowa boy probably sweated over boxing them up or whatever, so I would always try to care some in my backpack or briefcase and leave them whereever no matter how old they were. Even this practice never rid me of all of my supply (and I only took a few each month to begin with!) I suspect that someone lately dug through their stack and is trying to get rid of them in this manner too. Consider it a find, it should give you a real chuckle to read the old "purpose" statement inside the cover that still referenced the old Generation Doctrine.

    -Eduardo Leaton Jr., Esq.

  • sir82
    sir82

    This is one of the "old light" Awakes, talking about the "generation of 1914" on the inside cover.

    Here's what you can do:

    Take the mgazine, and find the nearest JW (perhaps they have a booth somewhere on campus, if they are often leaving literature around). Open to page 4, and in the little box "Why Awake is Published", point to the last sentence which reads "this magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away".

    Regardless of the magzine's topic, point to that in the box and tell the JW, "This sounds so exciting! A new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away! There aren't many of them left--they must all be at least 95 years old! Tell me more about this 'generation of 1914'!"

    And don't let them change the topic. Make them explain clearly how the date 1914 was chosen, and if they try to get around it by saying "we don't believe that any more", ask them why not, and "But I thought it was the Creator's promise about 1914?!? He wouldn't lie or change his mind, would he?"

  • kristyann
    kristyann

    Ooh, I forgot to even think of the fact that this one will still say "before the generation of 1914 passes away." I forgot about that entirely! Good ideas, guys! I'm going to look for whoever's leaving this stuff on campus and point it out to them...I still have it in my backpack... it's strange that the Watchtower even realized it was time to change that part in the Awake magazines but that the dubs passing them out don't care or even notice if it says that, as long as they get their points for placing them. Thanks for answering, guys, I honestly didn't know JWs pass out old issues like that... guess I just never encountered it before!

    LOL who came up with the "warning: cult reading material" stickers idea? That's too funny... I wonder if I could make some of those on the computer somehow? Could probably just use address labels... whenever I find Watchtowes and Awakes I usually take them and flip through them (but I refuse to leave them there for anyone else to find)... sometimes if I'm in a bad mood I will stand there and shred them to pieces (the first rip is usually kind of hard to do)...

  • Darth Yhwh
    Darth Yhwh
    Science: Can It Meet Our Needs?

    Too funny! That title cracks me up. LOL

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