WTS News Release: New book campaign

by doinmypart 23 Replies latest jw friends

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  doinmypart

  
  Notice the WTS' claims:

  "navigating the pages of the most widely distributed book on the planet"

  "Based on years of research and experience accumulated in the signature work of Jehovah’s Witnesses"

  "This book is a teaching treasure"

  If I didn't read it for myself I would have thought this to be a joke!

  http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm
  
  January 25, 2006

  Bible teaching tool to receive wide distribution this spring

  “What Does the Bible Really Teach?” is a compact educational tool directing readers to the key passages that most people wish to locate in their personal copies of the Bible. The “Bible Teach” book (for short) was released to audiences internationally during the 2005 annual conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Even before the opening chapter, the book offers this mini-lesson in navigating the pages of the most widely distributed book on the planet:

  GET TO KNOW YOUR BIBLE
  
  There are 66 books and letters that make up the Bible. These are divided into chapters and verses for easy reference. When scriptures are cited in this publication, the first number after the name indicates the chapter of the Bible book or letter, and the next refers to the verse. For example, the citation “2 Timothy 3:16” means the second letter to Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16.

  You will quickly become familiar with the Bible by looking up the scriptures cited in this publication. Also, why not start a program of daily Bible reading? By reading three to five chapters a day, you can read the entire Bible in a year.

  Based on years of research and experience accumulated in the signature work of Jehovah’s Witnesses, their ministry from door to door and on the street, the book addresses common questions and popular subjects. It contains such chapters as “What Is God’s Purpose for the Earth?” “The Ransom—God’s Greatest Gift” and “Why Does God Allow Suffering?”

  Designed for use as an introductory textbook, already 31 million copies have been produced in 141 languages, and that is in less than one year! A special distribution of the book during the month of March will begin by Jehovah’s Witnesses in over 12,000 congregations in the United States. Many other countries where the book is already available will have similar initiatives based on texts such as Romans 15:4, “For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction, that through our endurance and through the comfort from the Scriptures we might have hope.”

  This book is a teaching treasure, a book every lover of God’s Word will want to own and refer to often.

  Media contact: J. R. Brown, telephone: (718) 560-5600
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  wombat

  It made me chuckle too.

  This book that every lover of the Bible would love to have is based not only on years of research but also experience from the door-to-door work.

  Does this mean that the FDS is being guided by feed-back from Publishers in the field?
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  Elsewhere

  It looks like they may be giving up on paid TV advertising and instead are trying to rely on free advertising in the media.
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  Think

  Let me think: I am alloved now? Watery water, buttery butter? "The best advice ever from the best source of "TRUTH" ? Here will come next book: " New Light and teaching of the N"EW" SLave for the WT: Title : How to Use BIBLE.

  1. First open on the front page

  2. Look for any suspicious sign if it is from a wordly person

  2. Look at the index

  3. Locate the desired page , np book of WT "NEW" revelations on page 198675645678

  3. Carefuly examine signs of autencity

  3. Lise to the explanations of the WT wisdom

  4. To be more spiritual, continue thru eternity

  "NEW " OLD "NEW" old NEW LIght from Bricklin
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  Nosferatu

  "This book is a teaching treasure!"
  - Jehovah God

  "A book every lover of God’s Word will want to own and refer to often!"
  - The Faithful and Discreet Slave

  "Two Thumbs Up!"
  - Ted Jaracz

  Wow, sounds like a bestseller to me! I can't wait until the movie comes out.
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  undercover

  When I see it sitting on the shelf beside "The DaVinci Code" at Barnes & Nobles and Ron Howard is directing the movie version, I'll take a look at it.
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  Elsewhere

  A book every lover of God’s Word will want to own and refer to often!"

  I find it very interesting that they used the word "own" considering the fact the WTS is adamant that they don't "sell" their products.
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  stillajwexelder

  It is receiving heavy Kingdom Ministry coverage also
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  silentWatcher

  giving up on paid TV advertising
  
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  lol - I'd be surprised if they "paid" for those advertisements on TV. By law, TV stations must set aside a portion of their advertising time for PSA (public service announcements). Any PSA will do the trick, and the JW tv ads were classified as PSAs.
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  seattleniceguy

  Based on years of research and experience accumulated in the signature work of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  I was thinking about this claim, and I suddenly couldn't help but feel immense sadness for time wasted. They have had over 100 years during which they could have been doing actual research. Do you know what you could accomplish in 100 years of research? Instead, they were just plain making stuff up and selling it on streetcorners. Most of the stuff they published even 40 years ago is so crazy that even they don't want to look at it anymore. (Compare: http://www.reexamine.org/quotes) The stuff is completely worthless. What a colossal waste of time!

  Just to play this out, consider what happened in true fields of research over the last 100 years. Einstein's theory of Special Relativity was only just published 100 years ago. In 1919, while the Watchtower directors were sitting on their thumbs in prison for a ridiculous book that no one today has ever even read, a delegation from Britain led by Arthur Eddington was observing starlight bend around the sun during an eclipse, at exactly the angle Einstein had predicted four years earlier. Einsteinian physics would become the new bedrock in our understanding of the universe.

  In the 1950s, while the Watchtower Society was finally getting around to admitting vaccination was not a "devilish practice," as they had maintained for at least 18 years previous, Francis Crick was describing the structure of DNA for the first time. Within only a few decades, we would be pioneering new medicines based on our new genetic understanding.

  In the late 1970s, while the Watchtower Society was busy disfellowshipping married couples for having oral sex, folks like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were creating computer companies that would utterly change the way we communicate and work. Thanks to the revolution started by folks like these, I can now have a voice-to-voice conversation with my friend in Japan for virtually nothing. I have instant access to almost any factual information I might need. I can work from home. I can legally listen to over a million songs through a subscription music service. I am an information-empowered individual.

  All of this has happened in the past 100 years. Amazing what actual research can accomplish, isn't it? Imagine if those billions of person-hours were spent doing something productive instead of being wasted driving around peddling 4th-grade reading-level literature. The sense of utter vanity is overwhelming.

  I'm afraid I'd have to say that the "signature work of Jehovah's Witnesses" hasn't left much of a mark.

  SNG