by Shawn10538 26 Replies latest watchtower scandals
That's the kind of thing i was interested in during my first few yrs out. However, as time goes on, antiwt activism became less interesting, now to the point that i don't care.
A phone call campaign would only reach a couple or a few people in bethel, and those are usually solid wt bots.
Thirdly, exjws are generally not very leadable/organisable.
However, don't let the lack of response chill your enthusiasm to do this yourself. Dial on!
S
While I support and laud those who believe it an effective means to bombard Bethel - I have to ask 'What is accomplished'?
The R&F are the ones we might help out somehow - the R&F don't live at Bethel. Those at Bethel are ignoring those sorts of calls anyway. So what good is done? IT might have a positive effect on those who do the calling - a moral victory on some level - but to those who receive it has no more impact than a gnat buzzing in one's ear, IMO.
Pickets have little impact, as stated. Calls have even less, since only one person hears you.
Better results would come from targeting people you know - getting them to listen to you - and helping them out. Of course we know that is not easy to do. Face it - the WTS has baracades that are hard to climb. They are isolationists. You can't reach them be telephone, loudspeakers are needed. And they are ignored also.
Jeff
Zizter Zcully zed: Maybe some of us have better things to do with our time and money than "bombard" Bethel with phone calls. Maybe some of us realize that when dealing with a hornets' nest, it is better to lull them to sleep with smoke than to stir up the nest with a stick.Oh come on now Scully!! What could be more entertaining than phoning these bozos with the following question:
'....Ja....gud zum-wun bleaze dell me haw do feel out de Feeld Zervuz Re-bort for me do dell you haw meny 'ours eye spend dalking a-but the Keeng-dum? Ul-sooo, eye have queztion a-but ze Revelazhun Glimax buk. Eye dell my go-worker dat he must be baptized awf-ter 1935 in order do become Governing Budy member. Dis is correct, yes?
LMAO! Wonder how long I could do this for, before I burst out laughing!!
LMAO at Mary. We should so come up with some "hypothetical" (nudge wink know-what-I-mean) crank calls to place at Bethel. I am guessing that they have Caller ID on their phones nowadays.
However, as time goes on, antiwt activism became less interesting, now to the point that i don't care.
I hear ya.
Perhaps I've become less concerned with others ie selfish as such but it was so tiring holding that grudge. I prefer less direct or informal methods of "protest", living well and leaving it in the past.
My psychologist once told me that I can't bring down the org so just get on with my life. Though I learned many things from him and agree to some degree, one person can make a difference.
Pickets have little impact, as stated.
But I did hear of two good responses from Picketing..... David Reed Said when he & his wife saw the picketer with the sighn "'-READ YOUR BIBLE NOT THE WT"---she said WE do read the Bible David ! But when they discussed it they realized they didnt really...... so started to read it with out the WT & VOLA!!!! they are out...... he has written MANY books,. The other one that came free from the picketers said "He started to check out some of the signs like "BETH Sarim" & many others & found the lies.
He too is free & goes to PA !!!!!!!
Why? I find prevention a lot more effective and rewarding than trying to unbrainwash zombies.
The limited amount of time & energy I choose to devote to jw matters all have to do with educating the public about the dangers of cults so they don't join them in the first place. More bang for my buck, so to speak.
I do have a residue of anger about all the damage the wts has done to me and it is still doing to others, but not enough for me to engage in therapeutic, harmless revenge (any more, that is).
What is the Society's 'stance' on fishing...? and then try different stances...get it get it?
