The woman are a large army?

by life is to short 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  life is to short

  I was just reading another post and this question has been nagging at me for sometime. We keep hearing that the woman are a large army in the preaching work and that the woman do most of the preaching.

  OK the ones I know who pioneer just drive around aimlessly but whatever. But the GB use that in context with Jesus's time. In Jesus's time woman were looked down on, no woman would go door to door in Jesus's time preaching. Why did I not get that when I was pioneering. Woman were and are still looked down on in those parts of the earth it is obvious yet we all just went along with it. Another sing it is a cult.

  LITS
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  keyser soze

  I always found it to be rather patronising, myself. It was meant to make them feel good about the limited role they were allowed to have in the org.
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  St George of England

  Women are still looked down on everywhere in the WTS.

  They cannot run the magazine department or literature but they can tout them from door to door.

  They cannot do the accounts but they can clean the KH.

  George
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  Gayle

  I hope more and more of the younger girls set are seeing this issue.

  Many years ago back in mid-70's, I worked in service with an elderly gal still having resentment about Rutherford in his talks calling the JW women, "a bag of bones and a hank of hair." She stated resentfully that the women are the ones doing the door to door. She still was an active JW, though with resentment.

  I knew that Rutherford had said that, but her resentment hit me deeply with much deep thought. I was at my beginning stages of my grand "re-evaluation."
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  pirata

  Psalms 67 (NWT)

  11 Jehovah himself gives the saying;
  The women telling the good news are a large army.
  12 Even the kings of armies flee, they flee.
  As for her who abides at home, she shares in the spoil.

  This scripture is taken from King David's time, not Jesus' time. Especially during times of warfare, the female population was larger than the male population due to wartime deaths. We can see a similar trend during World War II: "As with most wars, many women found their roles and opportunities -- and responsibilities -- expanded. Husbands went to war or went to work in factories in other parts of the country, and the wives had to pick up their husbands' responsibilities. With fewer men in the workforce, women filled more traditionally-male jobs." (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/a/overview.htm)

  Today though, this scripture is used to make the sisters feel good about not having any "male privileges" because they are responsible for the most important privilege, the preaching work.

  In many some lands there is a high femle:male publisher ratio in the congregation, known, informally, as the housewife syndrome. Since most of the preaching is done by sisters during working hours, they are more likely to recruit housewives, which in turn further increase the amount of woman publishers.
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  blondie

  I do believe the WTS has dropped that song from the new songbook. It was always twisted by men lacking in a sense of humor to an army of large women...from the platform too, at least twice a year. haha not
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  Heaven

  I agree with keyser soze.
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  Ding

  Pirata,

  Psalm 67 only has 7 verses.
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  blondie

  You mean Psalm 68:11, but some translations are numbered differently, so it could be 67.

  The fact is that the men in the WTS do not value the "preaching" work; giving talks and having "privileges" even just microphone work, is greatly more important.
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  booby

  Many jw "sisters" have many "lofty" privileges in the org. They must however keep them "invisible" like the parousia. Many sisters compose the talks for their husbands who might be as they say 'not the sharpest knife in the drawer' and it is often apparent. The same is true of many assignments that the men carry out. as long as it is the behind the scenes part of said assignments. We had an elder in my congregation who could make flubs in his talks and if you were in the audience and able to see the looks he sometimes got from his wife it was both humorous to watch and cringe worthy at the same time.