How to Bankrupt the WTS (page 2)

stillajwexelder

I do my bit by getting CD-ROMS and sending to be copied by people like Blondie and Alan F

Farkel: I am just shocked that you could trash your extra watchtower and awakes like that! That is so disrespectful to Jehovah's spiritual food. I carefully boxed up my extra issues to save for the poor. The "poor" being all the poor witnesses who wouldn't have any literature when the great tribulation struck and Satan's minions silenced the great printing presses of the WTBTS. We could use all those back issues then, for our underground witnessing work, (blitzing the neighbourhoods at 2am under the cover of darkness).

My only problem was, as the stacks of boxes kept growing, I had no idea where I was going to hide them when the storm troopers stormed our houses for surprise inspections looking for contraband literature. I was wondering if my contractor husband would be able to cut a whole in the wall and then board it back up, or maybe build a revolving bookcase with worldly literature on the outside, and watchtower on the other side, accessed by a secret lever of course.

Looking back, I have to wonder if other teenagers and young women my age spent their free time worrying about such things during the 80's and 90's? I think I may have read one too many persecution stories in the annual yearbook. Anyhoo..., we finally had a flood and all the boxes of mags and extra books got wet and then Jehovah's spiritual food got very moldy and I had a legitimate excuse to throw it all out!

Cog

wozadummy

If I was still in I'd get huge orders of books and mags and put them in the recycle bin for collection - bonus for the enviroment and my hours /placement ratio would earn me an eldership I reckon.

Farkel

Cog,

Your lies are better than ANY of my lies!

Farkel

crazyblondeb

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've picked up WTS mags in the waiting area of the hospital ward where I am employed. Sometimes I'll keep them for myself, especially if it is one of the "good" articles about why JWs need to shun their wayward fading family members. Other times I'll take out a Sharpie marker and write: www.jehovahs-witness.com or www.silentlambs.org across the front cover and something to the effect of "for information that Jehovah's Witnesses won't tell you about their religion".

LOL Scully!! When i was nursing in dallas, it got to be the joke to see how many mags other nurses could pile up for me, if i didn't get them first!! I did the same thing with my markers, and marking on the front of them.

It was a sport for 9 years!!

cognizant dissident

Cog,
Your lies are better than ANY of my lies!
Farkel

The very sad (scary?) part is that every word was true! I really did worry about saving the literature for the great tribulation and we really did have a flood that destroyed it all! I can't believe how pathetic I was then! Cog

Ténébreux

But if they returned literature, they'd be proving that they didn't place it. Wouldn't they still end up paying for it themselves and trashing it just so the numbers would look good?

slimboyfat

In our congregation we had an elder who zealously counted up magazine placements for each publisher to see if it matched the number they had on order. If you placed significantly less than you ordered then you got a talking to.

There was even a local needs item about not wasting "spiritual provisions" where he in effect said: "I am not going to name names, but you brothers know who you are that are wasting the magazines." Such fine shepherds our elders are, with a real grip on the important issues.

wobble

Another slow way to undermine the WT financialy is to publicise the "Do not call" list,most of the public are not aware of this,and if they were many would go on it and less would fall for the Bulls**t and become paying members.Maybe a letter about unwanted callers at the door,mentioning the do not call list ,to the local paper would start the ball rolling.

Just an idea.

Love

Wobble

verystupid77

I remember when we were pioneering we had no money nothing and I went to get the mags to use for the month the brother giving them out was so mad that I did not have any money he knew we lived on nothing as all of our time was out trying to sell these things and like you said no one wanted them so we had to give them away. I was working 35 hours a week and puting in 25 a week pioneering. We lived in the country and spent tons and tons on gas which no one whould help us with. We would put seven people in our Honda Civic they would just smash in our car. There were not enough set bealts but they did not seem to care as long they did not have to use their cars and spend their gas I guess they thougt holly spirit would save them if we were in an accednet. So one day this MS told me unless he saw me put my money in the box right then in front of him he would not let me take the mags and books. I was so hurt. We had nothing and he knew it. Then my husband was so mad at me for not geting the junk I do not know where where my husband felt I should have gotten the money to put in the box. All of this is just so hurtful.

How to Bankrupt the WTS

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