Picketing

by MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  mouthy

  OOPS
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  mouthy

  I will "nuf off" sweet AnnB Sorry to 'tick you off I thought we were discussing Pickiting.
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  JWdaughter

  The internet is the new "picket line". The best thing is, we are not making cold calls(approaching unwilling ears), the people who come online regarding the religion have already got valid reasons and questions to be checking it out.
  
  That is why there is less picketing at the conventions.
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  FlipThis

  I don't picket myself.....

  BUT; if all of everyone's efforts have saved ONE person;

  it's not a useless measure.
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  david_10

  Way to go, AnneB and Gohan----------------------I totally agree. In my opinion, picketing does more harm than good. If it worked, then I'd be all for it, but it doesn't work. To say something like: "... if all of everyone's efforts have saved ONE person, it's not a useless measure"is ridiculous. That's the same convoluted reasoning that the society uses in justifying field service: "If all those millions of hours spent in service help even one person learn the truth, then it's time well spent." That's simply not true, and it's nothing but a waste of time.

  When I was active, there was no way that I would have given a protestor the time of day. The picketing only feeds the persecution complex that all witness have and nurture, and drives them deeper inside. I remember an incident around 20 years ago at one of the last assemblies I attended: As I walked into the Civic Center, there was a group of about 20 witnesses gathered around the door, and they were watching and talking about a group of picketers who were out on the sidewalk. Suddenly, one of the sisters screamed: "WHY CAN"T THEY JUST LEAVE US ALONE?!!!" , and then she swooned and fainted and one of the brothers had to catch her and lay her down. What a ham, I thought, but everybody seemed to love it.

  I can honestly say that those in-your-face opposers (combined with bad apostate reading material), delayed my exit from the Organization by at least 10 years. All I saw were these rude arrogant pests, and, even though I was having a terrible inner struggle, I just thought: "See there----the Society is right. Stick with the Organization because there's just nothing that the world has to offer." The typical "Where-Else-Can-I-Go" syndrome. So instead of looking for answers, I stayed inside and kept a lid on my thoughts.

  Personally, I think that the best thing to do is leave the JW's alone and let them figure it out for themselves. Most never will, I'm afraid, but that's the only way that I was able to do it, and that's the only way everyone I know who has left the Organization has done it.

  For those who are thinking about picketing, please reconsider. If you really want to help, leave the Witnesses alone. Instead, do something that's actually constructive: take your kids to a baseball game, spend time with your family or read a good book. But leave the witnesses alone.

  My humble opinion.

  David
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  FlipThis

  Gee thanks for your honorable amount of tact.

  "That's the same convoluted reasoning that the society uses in justifying field service"

  And knocking on doors and picketing and such hasn't worked for them at all has it?
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  MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ

  It seems that demonstrations involving congregated groups have waned in general. The newscaster announces that "the streets are filled with protesters here in Baghdad as the local people express their frustration with American presence" (or whatever)...then the camera pans to a loop of the same seven 13 year olds hopping up and down and burning a flag the size of a swizzle stick.
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  david_10

  "Gee thanks for your honorable amount of tact."

  You're right, FT-------------------------I was rather tactless, and I apologize.

  David
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  cameo-d

  I am afraid to see any of you people picket.

  I am afraid, with the way laws have changed and are changing everyday, that it might be considered a Terrorist activity. All it takes is one person to throw something or to shove!

  Not only that, but with the way religious antagonism is heating up, they will start calling YOU the anti-christ...and next thing you know, you're on a yellow bus headed for a fema detention camp.
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  Kenneson

  I suppose some of you think that the picketing at Ft. Benning, Ga. has been inefective. Every year the number of picketeers increases and the pressure increases. The question is who will be the first to give in?

  If nothing else it keeps the eyes of the public on an issue that does not go away.