It's hard for crusty old men that leave in the victorian age to feel at home with modern technology and especially one that is so hostile to them with hundreds of websites exposing their every aspect. They even discouraged the dubs from setting up websites to promote the WTS propaganda.
The useless WTS Website
by PopeOfEruke 24 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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fullofdoubtnow
I'm surprised, in a way, that they even have their own website. It's far too easy for dubs looking for it to find their way on to sites that tell the truth about the wts.
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garybuss
The Watch Tower Society is a bulk paper printing company. They correctly see other media as competition. The Society has always preached, they haven't dialogued. When they do appear to dialogue, they really don't. They control. Like the Watchtower study, they control the meeting by asking the questions. He who asks the questions controls the meeting.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have never seen accuracy as an important element of their ministry. They see conformity as important, and the act of preaching itself as important, but they don't see content as important. Never have.
They understand that they believe they have a command to preach, they just can't agree what the message should be. They understand that they are identified by their unity, so they believe they satisfy that identification if they all believe error . . . or speculation. Their loyalty is to the preaching itself and to the designer of the presentation offer, not to their message.
The householder isn't important to them except in that the householder is a necessary element to their salvation. I've been with Jehovah's Witnesses going house to house who were laughing and picking the houses they will live in after Armageddon and after God murders the current owners and their children. -
done4good
Even when I was a dub, I thought the website was fairly useless. My theory, is that is by design. In recent decades, (since the disbanding of the radio network), the WT has CHOSEN to not use any type of media other than printed page to do it's work. They really don't want people "learning" things about the organization, outside of the "arrangement". If they gave too much information there, most people would then be able to make an informed decision not to join. The bible study arrangement, OTOH, is far more insidious, and things can be introduced to the student by means of pressure, that otherwise would not be accomplished my merely reading the information at face value on the website.
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rebel8
Right now they have an online article, "When Cows Go on Vacation". I kid you not.
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crazyblondeb
I found a very good use for it. If you are really mad at someone, *cough* sign them up for a home visit. It takes about 3 weeks for them to get there!!
*cough* Not saying I've done this. *cough*
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blondie
The www.watchtower.org website is aimed mostly at non-JWs. JWs have access to all the information on the website and more on the WT-CD.
Notice that the WTS does not encourage JWs to study with people only using the Bible but to get them into a WTS publication asap. They don't want individual JWs putting forth their own ideas but be "guided" by the propaganda in the publications.
Individual JW websites are considered a danger because the WTS feels that all a person needs to know is in their publications. There were a great many private JW websites that have one by one been eliminated or modified through pressure by the WTS.
The WTS rarely even mentions that they have a website in their publications and meetings. It does have a mention on the back page of the WT magazine (and probably other places).
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g057/8p.32LearnWhattheBibleTeaches***We invite you to request your own copy or to download one from our Web site at www.watchtower.org. The brochure is available in over 250 different languages
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g981/8p.12HowYouCanCopeWiththeInformationAge***For example, the Watchtower Society recently announced its own Web site (http://www.watchtower.org), which serves to give factual information about Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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km5/04p.3AMeanstoHelpThem***As a means to that end, some basic brochures, tracts, and articles in 20 languages have been on the Internet at www.watchtower.org. This Web site is not designed to distribute current publications to Jehovah’s Witnesses. Its objective is to make available tothepublic accurate information about what Jehovah’s Witnesses teach from the Bible.
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km9/02p.8par.6AvoidthePursuitof"ValuelessThings"***We have an official Internet Web site: www.watchtower.org. This site is adequate to make information available to the public. There is no need for any individual, committee, or congregation to prepare a Web page about Jehovah’s Witnesses. Some have posted the contents of our publications with all scriptures and references given in full and have even offered copies of convention material on a donation basis. Whether profit is involved or not, the practice of reproducing and distributing publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses in an electronic document is a violation of copyright laws. While some may view this as a service to the brothers, it is not approved and should be discontinued.
***km11/99p.4par.18UseoftheInternet—BeAlerttotheDangers!***
Commenting on whether there is a need for our brothers to create such Web sites, OurKingdomMinistry, November 1997, page 3, stated: "There is no need for any individual to prepare Internet pages about Jehovah’s Witnesses, our activities, or our beliefs. Our official site [www.watchtower.org] presents accurate information for any who want it."
***yb03p.62WorldwideReport***
A woman in Canada obtained a copy of the NewWorldTranslationoftheHolyScriptures from a friend. She thoroughly enjoyed reading it and decided that she wanted to learn more. So she went to the official Internet site of Jehovah’s Witnesses (www.watchtower.org) and then wrote a letter requesting a Bible study and a copy of the Knowledge book.
***km11/97p.3GoodNewsontheInternet***
Our Internet Web site has the address http://www.watchtower.org and contains a selection of tracts, brochures, and Watchtower and Awake! articles in English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Russian, and Spanish, as well as in other languages. The publications on this Web site are already available through the congregations and are in use in the ministry. The purpose of our Web site is, not to release new publications, but to make information available to the public in electronic format. There is no need for any individual to prepare Internet pages about Jehovah’s Witnesses, our activities, or our beliefs. Our official site presents accurate information for any who want it.
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OnTheWayOut
The Watch Tower Society is a bulk paper printing company.
This was the way they were from the start, and the men running things were younger.
They think this is the way should continue now that they are old and stuck in their ways.Many newspapers and magazines are the same way, not keeping up with the changing
media, therefore getting left behind. Many people do not get the daily newspaper anymore.
Most people do not use the classified ads to find jobs or sell things anymore, they use the
internet- yet those things are still there for those who don't have them or don't want them.
In the WTS's favor, magazines and tabloids are still preferred over internet by millions of people.Also, if people did go to the website, would they contribute to the world-wide work?
Would many feel that they do not need to study with someone or go to the KH?
They gotta control those folks with a home bible study and weekly meetings. -
done4good
Also, if people did go to the website, would they contribute to the world-wide work?
Would many feel that they do not need to study with someone or go to the KH?
They gotta control those folks with a home bible study and weekly meetings.Exactly, OnTheWayOut. That's why they did away with the radio stations, and never used television. Obviously, the door to door work is NOT the most effective way to reach the most people, but it IS one of the more effective ways to reach people you can potentially control.
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free2beme
I think they can not catch up, and can not afford to trust an outside source to handle it for them. I was not impressed when I saw it. Compared to other religions websites, it is very poor.