Does anyone remember when the Watchtower website first opened, it wasn't mentioned in the magazines or at the meetings for a while?

by slimboyfat 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  After all, the Internet is everything the Watchtower Society is not.

  Every voice can be heard. Every question can be posed.

  Errors can be identified and called out or corrected immediately.

  Most of all, there are a very few minds at work at Watchtower headquarters. They are small and simple minds. The most monolithic lie

  told to the flock is that those minds receive Jehovah's accurate and pure pronouncements. But, as the internet has proved repeatedly,

  the content of Watchtower messages is pathetically ill-conceived and flimsy.

  The friend I grew up with who is still active at the local Kingdom Hall does not even know the first thing about how to operate a computer (much less surf the Net). He views the entire Internet with suspicion, doubt and recalcitrance.

  This attitude has been fostered by the Society for good reason. Watchtower theology CANNOT BEAR scrutiny.

  Long live the internet!
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  knows better

  i remember them saying it wasnt for JW's. It was for non-JW's who were interested. And you don't need to go there.
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  Stimorol

  I remember an elder in our congregation making his own JW website in our country's language sometime in the late 90's. Just general stuff, main beliefs, location of KH and times of meetings, etc. It was obvious he spent a lot of time on it. The WT site at that time had just opened and didn't have any content in our language.

  The other elders with the help of the branch office made him shut it down. I know he was pretty upset about it and I remember it being one of the reasons I started thinking outside the cult-box. I just really didn't understand how a pro-JW website, made by a JW in good standing (an elder!), with loads of correct info could be a bad thing - after all it should help us to spread the good news, right?

  Just one more thing I didn't understand about the WT. This was a small stepping stone in helping me to make my decision to leave.
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  fokyc

  It was announced last night in Britain (18th March 2010) that:

  NO more mp3's etc. will be supplied through Congs.

  You MUST download from the Socs website.

  What a turn round, only a few months ago my wife's CoBoE said that ALL internet downloads were a load of apostate rubbish!
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  Luo bou to

  I remember a cheeky ex in Sweden I think that was giving the WT a few headaches at the time He started a sight that was a mirror of the WT one
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  TheOldHippie

  "The friend I grew up with who is still active at the local Kingdom Hall does not even know the first thing about how to operate a computer (much less surf the Net). He views the entire Internet with suspicion, doubt and recalcitrance."

  I don't think you should make your own limited experience = the worldwide situation. In my congregation, I am just about the only one who is not on facebook, and many others have their own websites etc.
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  Bonnie_Clyde

  In March 1997 I was visiting my son in Colorado, and he showed me the WT site. I was still learning about the internet, and he showed me how to type "Watchtower" into a search engine. Then he said, "be careful, you could end up on an apostate site." I remembered that warning and was careful for about a year and a half, but my son had sowed the seed. One day I couldn't resist typing in the search words, "1975, Franz, Jehovah", and that was the beginning of my exit.