Watchtower MP3
by scotsman 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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kwintestal
It must kill them to do this. Do you realize how much control they give up by having this available? Now someone can get this info WITHOUT EVER seeing a JW. That means no bi-weekly guilt trip for those who aren't regular meeting attenders. Awesome! Not to mention the downloads are available to "apostates", including the study issues. Wow!
Kwin
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witnessgirl
Actually, for most of the Org's history you could get the mags without ever seeing a JW by subscribing through the mail. Every year when your subscription was about to expire, you would get yellow and blue paper slips in the mail. If you wanted to keep getting the mags, you checked a box and returned the slips to the society and you kept getting your mailbox crammed full of Jehovah's Food ™ without having to have it served by Jehovah's Witnesses™.
Then sometime around 1991 they announced in letters to all congregations and letters to all bodies of elders that they weren't going to be offering subscriptions through the mail anymore. Then a month later, another letter came. Suprise! The fun-loving society was just kidding. Subscriptions would continue as normal.
Then sometime around 2000 they did away with subscriptions for real. Having been around for the earlier expected time of the end and having seen it come and go without anything be any different, I was skeptical. Unfortunately, Jehovah decided to punish me for questioning the society's predictions and killed subscriptions for real, just like Lot's wife. I am very sorry.
Fortunately, as you've noted, the new situation with online distribution (even of the Study edition) means that it doesn't matter anymore. The audio versions of the mags (I remember when they came on cassette tapes) were always harder to get anyway, making it even better. -