You might find this interesting - an unrelated message board.

by Joe Grundy 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Joe Grundy

  
  This is a link to a BBC message board mainly concerned with a long running British radio soap opera (55+ years). http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbarchers/F2693943?thread=3319138&skip=0&show=20

  Many other things are discussed - this thread is about the 'My dogs are fed on JWs sign' which has been discussed here.

  Someone is posting info about JWs on the thread, and has done so on previous threads where the opportunity has arisen.

  'Someone' may ask posters here for good info to reinforce points should it seem appropriate.
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  Joe Grundy

  bttt

  The discussion is continuing. I'm sure 'someone' wouldn't mind a few suggestions.

  Suggestors may be able to count the time!
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  james_woods

  So which way are things going on that other site, Joe?

  I mean - are the sentiments for the sign owner and against the witnesses, or the other way around?

  And, is "someone" and anti-witness or is he an apologist?

  Nice to hear from you again...I must have missed you for a while now.

  James
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  Joe Grundy

  The 'someone' is me.

  And I think it's providing an opportunity to make more people aware of what the WTBTS and what it can do.

  The general feeling is fairly anti JW, but I know that at least one poster there has a 9 yr old child being taken to KH by the divorced parent.
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  james_woods

  HaHa - I was just teasing. I think we had it guessed! Good for you!
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  james_woods

  Seriously, Joe - (since I know you are not exactly of an exJW background) -

  Were you aware of the "Green River Ordinance" from years back in the US? It was an attempt to allow towns or cities to require all door-to-door solicitation be registered to the police - the WTS fought it tooth and toenail and eventually won on "free speech" issues.

  There was a more recent attempt at such a law in New England; it came about after a so-called "magazine salesman" was convicted of raping and murdering an elderly woman who had opened her door to him. I don't know how it came out, but as I recall the courts held up the right of religious or political solicitation on free speech issues again. Proponents of the law compared it to the recent crackdown on unwanted telephone solicitation. There are some interesting constitutional issues here, but the "do not call" list is one of the more popular things that have happened under Bush.

  My feeling is that there is a growing trend here in the USA for ordinary citizens to be more in favor of such regulations on personal safety issues, rather than being particularly anti-JW.

  James
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  Joe Grundy

  Hi James

  Thanks for the replies. I don't very often get on an anti-JW hobby horse, but from what I've learned from the board and elsewhere and from some friends I've spoken to that I met here I do feel that there are some things worth saying - especially when they crop up on completely unrelated boards and it's obvious that some people have no experience/knowledge whatsoever.

  Re prohibitions on calling - there was a similar sort of thing introduced in the UK recently in one area where the Neighbourhood Watch and local council declared an area as 'no cold callers'. No legal basis for it, just an attempt to make cold callers feel unwelcome. The only practical effect will be if residents call the police, IF the police respond, and if the police check out the callers and the callers feel unwelcome and move elsewhere.

  OTOH, often in the UK if (say) a public opinion firm is going to be cold calling, they will inform the local police first so at least the police know that they'll be in the area.

  Cheers