by Truthexplorer 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Alternatively, you can remove anything that might identify you as the writer and then send a copy to everyone in the congregation except the elders.
W
I agree, send a copy to everyone in your congregation and anyone else you have addresses for.
Shorten the information to a paragraph or two, and put it on a postcard.
That will get way more attention and will get your information in the hands and read by many before it even gets to the intended......
lisa
You have to see it from their point of view.
In one Watchtower there was a conceptual mistake made, so I wrote the Society telling them about it. They wrote a letter back and told me to "correct my personal copy of the Watchtower" and that was it. I don't think they sent a copy of the letter to the elders because my Book Study conductor was an editor and I had to show him the letter from the Society admitting the error. Had it gone to the congregation I'm sure the elders would have been advised about it and discussed it. They might have even announced for the congregation to change their personal copies as well. I would have gotten something. But, of course, the WTS doesn't want that issue to become an issue so they likely sent nothing to the congregation and basically ended the issue with one person.
But think about this. Maybe I or a few others noted the error out of millions. So over time they know the general population of the organization either are not paying attention or don't have the capacity to reason in a way to see contradictions. So they basically can sell anything and the sheeple will try to follow it. If they don't understand it and it doesn't make sense, then they blame themselves.
Now, I'm imperfect too. So I've written them about some issues and when I was right, I got no response. They just ignored it. But when I actually made an error, they sent me a very curt letter about it and also sent a copy to the local congregation.
ALSO, I've spent hundreds of dollars sending propaganda to every single congregation in the United States!! You can go to the library and punch in a search for "Kingdom Hall" and it will give you all the addresses where the Kingdom Halls are in each state. The program will print it out any way you want, including mail label format. So you just print it out. Cut out the addresses, and paper paste them onto envelopes. I did it anonymously and used a stamp to a private P.O. Box. I learned a few things. Maybe 1/4 were returned because no mail was delivered to the actual location of the Hall. Many Halls have P.O. Boxes or the mail comes to the secretary. So it is undeliverable.
So I did do that.
Continued.
LS
Now this is just a tip for sending mail to the congregations and it also points to a very clear anomally in this organization. That is, the rank and file really don't know their own teachings. So it is worthless to talk about chronology to the rank and file. The target group are elders!! The rank and file are told not to read "apostate literature" and to throw it away without reading it, and they do. Not that they don't read it, but they think the WTS has the truth and has got any topics covered they bring up. Which is 95% true.
So what I do for a mailer, is to mail it to the congregation Literature Department. My letter was addressed to the Governing Body but at the bottom I did a "cc" to the local congregation Literature Servant. Plus the letter was addressed to the literature servant. Usually the congregation secretary is too busy to be bothered and figures it is some congregation asking whether they have some old book in stock or something as congregations loan literature back and forth.
When it gets to the Literature Servant, who often is a ministerial servant, not an elder, he will innocently open the letter, see it is addressed to the GB, be confused for a moment and then see "cc: Congregation Literature Servant". It has absolutely nothing to do with the literature. Likely he will try and read it, remain confused, and ask an elder about it. At one point they might suspect it is apostate information, but the elders think they are strong enough to deal with it and so it will be passed around to the most experienced elders who will try to show why this information is incorrect, all the while knowing this seems innocent since it is addressed to the Governing Body. The letter had the context of explaining to them about some new evidence about the Persians and sort of warning the WTS about it because it contradicted what "we are teaching." Once all the elders have scratched their heads and been "infected" by the letter, they have to report it to the Society knowing if it contradicts anything fundamental, that it must be "apostate" or an errant, misguided brother. At any rate, the elders will have read the information and know about the contradiction.
Now. If you are going to deliver fliers personally, what I do is fold them up into a tight wad and drop them in a place where some child is likely to find it and pick it up. You know, no official place just near the Hall. Some halls have fences so you can't get in anyway. The fliers are done in bright colors. Some child will pick it up and maybe seeing something about the Bible will dutifully give it to his mother. She'll read it. Realize the Hall is under apostate attack and bring her "concerned" demeaner to her husband who might be an elder, or to the CO. "Oh, my son showed this to me, I think apostates must have left it. We should warn the brothers in case some new ones read it!" Of course, the elder will read it and pass it on to the other elders while they decide what to do with the information. But the flier was not aimed at the flock in the first place, but the elders. Those who know the truth and have to explain it and understand why something false, because they are in charge of the congregation. They can't pass the buck up at their level.
Some congregations only have parking on the street so sometimes I've put fliers on windshields. I know I've gone to over a hundred Halls in the LA area. If a meeting was in progress, I smiled, shoot hands at whoever was at the door and pretended I forgot to turn in my time (oh my!) and put the flier in the time box. You can't use the mailboxes because it is illegal. So sometimes you just stick it in the door. The elders will all read it and discuss it, anticipating this in the hands of the rank and file, not knowing they are the ones who will begin to question and the elders are the target group.
LS
Don't waste your time, they receive thousands of letters from "apostates",
If you don't sign it and provide an address it will end up in the garbage.
Some child will pick it up and maybe seeing something about the Bible will dut........
and a tiny seed is planted. hehehe
I remember lots of stuff that didn't seem right when I was young. I just thought it was me,.......come to find out...years later. Well you know.
lisa
Yes, we did a group correspondence to wts hq after they sued poster Quotes for "causing embarassment" by quoting their literature (as per their statements in the lawsuit). I collected comments online, printed them out, and mailed them.
This was just a therapeutic activity for us, with no expectation it would change minds.
If you're using USPS, you might want to know what happened to me at the post office. They refused to mail an envelope to wts without a return address.
What I did is use the return address of Beth Sarim, put my own postage on, and dropped it in a mailbox.
PS-Remembered another time I sent a question asking for a written response. I specifically requested them NOT to come to my house or phone me. 2 elders (I didn't know) came to my house with the letter in hand. I asked them if they knew the letter in their hands stated they should not come to my house, and they responded yes. I said you must leave immediately and if you return I will place you under citizen's arrest for violation of trespassing laws.
