Jehovah's Witnesses Evidently Ashamed of the WTBTS

by Melody Blankenship 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  yknot

  Oh come on......

  The dude obviously wasn't able to dodge FS!

  His Elders probably decided to assist him by escorting him out in FS too!

  Let's give the boy a break, he didn't try to really convert anyone, he didn't even attempt a conversation. Had he really been ''sincere'' he would have whipped out the ole NWT and discussed some of them scriptures but NO he just walk away.

  He just did the minimum passing out litertrash so he can keep 'em off his case. Granted somebody ought to teach the man how to rap n tract without knocking.
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  Atlantis

  Kingdom-Ministry-1989-February-p.3 "Therefore, publishers do well to avoid representing themselves as agents or representatives of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., or any other corporation used by "the faithful and discreet slave" to advance Kingdom interests."
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  treadnh2o

  Atlantis, You are a stud!!
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  carla

  Thank you for the scan!!!

  I had a jw here once who I asked three time if they were a jehovah's witness, not if they were associated with the wt and only after my rather loud third time would they squeak out a "yes" they were in fact jehovah's witness. They completely ignored by first two times of asking! why not admit it at the door? I asked my jw. His response, 'if we told people at the doors we are jw's they will not talk to us or slam the doors'. He could not see that, A- the reputation of jw's preceeds them and B- they are attempting to use dishonest ways to get into peoples houses to supposedly spread the word of God.
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  Gregor

  Watchtower Witnesses are being trained more and more to dialogue like attorneys

  Yeah, I had a game of double talk with a couple of JW women at my door not long ago. They were very glib at avoiding straight answers.
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  Lady Lee

  Lying about who they are and what they are selling goes back a long long way. Russell was quite blatant in telling his colporteurs to lie if people asked whether the Studies in the Scriptures were the same as the Millennial Dawn they already had in their homes.

  I have been out since 1985 and I clearly remember being told blur who I was and whose literature I was selling. - anything to sell a book. And back then the goal was to get them talking as long as possible before presenting the offer.

  ya can't cvatch the fish unless you get them on the hook

  This feeling ashamed thing makes me remember something I have often thought about.

  One morning I was on the train going to work and met the presiding overseer. We started chatting and I said something about being JWs - loud enough for the surrounding people to hear. Almost immediately I got reprimanded for identifying us so loudly. We weren't doing anything wrong - just talking about normal stuff. But it sure shut me down pretty fast. I never found out what the issue was about that.
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  As memery serves me this use to happen quite often impart for the some of the reasons out of that particular article. ( good catch )

  Even to go as far as to divert attention away from them being JWS.

  Goes to show where their integrity is at.

  The big deal was to place a magazine or tract and tell about it to your fellow JWS. with pride and accomplishment.

  Disingenuous religious people are common and its all there in the psychology of every JWS., but then again they are being trained to be so.
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  Mary

  He told her that he was just passing out literature for her to look up in "her" Bible concerning the end of the world. She specifically asked him if he was associated with the Watch Tower Bible Tract Society and he said "No, Ma'am." So she took the literature and he went on his way. When she brought it in, she said it was indeed literature from the Jehovah's Witnesses and WTBTS.

  Oh god.......This reminds me of an experience when I was abou 10 years old:

  We were at my grandma's visiting when the all-important tract work came up. So we went out and I was doing an apartment complex....It was 3 stories high with about 3 or 4 apartments on each floor and these were the days when young ones could and did 'work on their own.'

  Anyway, I knocked on the one door, told her I was there to give her a tract and would like to encourage her to read it. She asked "Is that the Watchtower?" I replied "No", because to my 10-year old way of thinking, I was just offering her a tract, not the Watchtower magazine. So she took it. I knocked on the next door and 5 seconds later, her door flew open, she yelled "It's the same damn thing!" and whipped the tract at me and slammed her door. I faithfully slid it back under her door in the hopes that she would read it and "get the troof".

  
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  Octarine Prince

  One morning I was on the train going to work and met the presiding overseer. We started chatting and I said something about being JWs - loud enough for the surrounding people to hear. Almost immediately I got reprimanded for identifying us so loudly. We weren't doing anything wrong - just talking about normal stuff. But it sure shut me down pretty fast. I never found out what the issue was about that.
  
  
  On that same commute he could have been cussing up a storm everyday except the day you were with him. He didn't want his cover blown.
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  Melody Blankenship

  It looks like the WTBTS is as ashamed of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the JW's are of the WTBTS. Maybe it's time they should part ways. But then who else would work for the WTBTS the way the JW's do?