Page 3, para.2: "In the face of the threat of crime and violence, a growing number of apartment buildings are locked and have doormen or surveillance cameras."
Hello, Watchtower? Are you listening? Crime, and Violent Crime, has been on a steady DECREASE since the mid 1990s. You always forget to mention that, don't you? It doesn't
Speaking personally, the "high security, door manned" building I live in has a specific purpose for all the security: TO KEEP UNWANTED PEDDLERS OUT (THIS MEANS YOU).
So far, it has been successful. I have NEVER had a JW knock at my door. I was telephone witnessed once, about 5 years ago. It seems that the 1.4 billion hours of public preaching work is not as thorough as they would lead us to believe!
~Q
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Page 3, para 4: "If the locked building has an intercom outside the entrance, we can use it to find someeone who agrees to let us in to speak with him."
Page 3, para 5: "Some tenants may prefer that you tell them the purpose of your visit over the intercom."
Are we to understand that, from para 4, you randomly buzz people and only say "Hello, I would like to come up and speak to you. Would you please let me in the building?"
The implication of para 5 is clear: DO *NOT* PROACTIVELY TELL THE TENANT THE PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT unless they ask. Try to get access while hiding your true purpose.
Reminds of the way Amway (or whatever they call themselves now) recruits. They too are trained to NOT say what it is for, just tell the person you want to "discuss a business opportunity". You are 45 minutes into the presentation before they drop the Amway bomb on you.
So, WTS is counseling clever deception via deliberately delayed disclosure, as a ruse to get access to a building.
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Sorry, I'm really having fun with this stupidity.
Page 3, para 9: "When entering an apartment building, wipe your shoes and close the door securely behind you. By showing such courtesy, we alleviate the tenants' reasons for complaint."
In the JW Bizzaro world, apartment tenant complaints sound like this: "Gee, I don't mind them bringing their books and their wacky religion and confronting me right in my home when I'm trying to enjoy my day off. But what DOES bother me is when they don't wipe their feet, and when they somehow prevent the automatic door closer from closing the door automatically. THAT is what bothers me. If they would wipe and pull the door closed, I would have no complaints!"
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For those of us that live in secure buildings we were told to consider it our personal territory. One time in the meeting for service, the brother asked if three others and myself could return to my building and cover two floors. They wanted to do this every weekend until the building had been covered. I told them no.
I don't know anyone that lived in a private building or private community that actually treated it as their personal territory and preached there from door-to-door.
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Page 8, para6: "When preaching, our goal is not to win arguments; neither is it simply to convey information. We want to reason skillfully from the Scriptures."
Wow.
Isn't "conveying information" *EXACTLY* what JWS are doing? When cornered about "trying to convert people", don't the JWs defend their activity by saying, "No, we just want to Witness to our faith in God's promise. We have been given a commission to preach" --> But is not preaching, basically, simply, CONVEYING INFORMATION????
And isn't "reason skillfully" just a euphemism for "winning arguments"?
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