The Territories we were Banned from Preaching

by The wanderer 15 Replies latest jw friends

  • The wanderer
    The wanderer
    The Territories we were Banned from Preaching

    After an interesting phone call yesterday with an ex-Jehovah's
    Witness, it was mentioned during the course of the conversation
    that the Watchtower Society had placed restrictions on certain
    areas and houses.

    The Amityville horror house on Long Island

    One house in particular that comes to mind is 112 Ocean
    Avenue on Long Island. This was the infamous house
    dubbed as the Amityville horror house.

    In addition, certain areas of Brooklyn were also dubbed as
    restricted because of mob violence toward the Witnesses.

    Other banned or restricted areas

    In Florida, the infamous town known as Cassadaga which is in-
    habited by fortune tellers, soothsayers, witches and warlocks;
    I believe was founded by the organization known as Wicca,
    was also a banned territory.

    What about your territories?

    • Was there a particular house or territory that
      was "banned" by the Society that you can recall?

    • What reasons were given for the restrictions?

    Please post your thoughts for a lively discussion

    Respectfully,

    The Wanderer

  • gordon d
    gordon d

    You might as well go ahead and add sKally's block to the list!

  • DannyBloem
    DannyBloem

    Nothing here,

    only of course the people who clearly told us that they never wanted a visit from us, were not longer visited

  • Outaservice
    Outaservice

    For the first time in my life, I live in a gated community. So far, no JW's. Whats their policy on this type of community?

    Outaservice

  • gordon d
    gordon d

    The gated community trend is just another tool of Satan's that signifies the last times...

    Based upon nothing other than what I've seen, if the gate is open, it's fair game

  • juni
    juni

    No. We didn't have any official "mother" restricted territories.

    Juni

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa
    You might as well go ahead and add sKally's block to the list!

    ha..I believe it

  • Warlock
    Warlock
    You might as well go ahead and add sKally's block to the list!

    Good one, Gordon. Warlock

  • VM44
    VM44

    "The Amityville horror house on Long Island"

    The Watchtower probably banned this address not because of any "demonic" activity there, but because of the bad publicity that is associated with the house. It would be inappropriate for a Witness to risk any association of the Jehovah's Witnesses or of the Watchtower's name with that house just by making a call there.

    The Watchtower does not want that kind of publicity!

    The whole Amityville story was an attempt by some not very nice people to make money off of a horrible crime that was committed there in the early 1970's.

    --VM44

  • Carmel
    Carmel

    When I lived in South East Alaska, we had just moved into an apartment when the JWs came to "welcome" us. We were informed that in a few weeks all the witnesses would be leaving our town and we were warned to be careful as our town and the neighboring one had been declared by the society as the "Sodom and Gommorah" of Alaska. And sure enough, all but two witnesses actually left Petersburg and Wrangell, except for one elderly lady and a young man who worked for the telephone company. He was allowed to stay a few months longer until his transfer to Juneau came through. Oh, the elderly lady was living with here son who was the customs agent and he was close to retirement so they stayed for about a year then left Gommorah.

    carmel

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