small talk with daughter...still planting seeds

by Aussie Oz 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Aussie Oz
    Aussie Oz

    Had a little chat to her the other day about a couple of things...

    she had the friday off school i found out so she could go witnessing with the CO's wife and have lunch with them. Anyway, got to talking about the door to door work and whether she thought it was an effective method of preaching, which she does/did. I asked her if she was aware that after 130 years of preaching that most people could not tell you what the JWs believed but rather could only say what they didn't believe, and even then still get some of that wrong. I asked if she thought that the door to door work was really effective to which she concluded it was possibly not.

    It led to talking about Campings methods, which the whole world were aware of and how in a very short time he was able to get his message out. Practically the whole world could tell you just what Camping taught. I brought up his use of the internet, the marches, the radio, the travelling truck billboards etc and she concluded they were very effective. I asked her to ponder on why the WT society had stopped using those methods of old as mentioned in the proclaimers book and DVDs...

    Also lasked her if she was aware of Campings explanation for failure, and she thought his 'invisible' defense was funny and concluded he must be a false prophet... so i asked her if she thought the JWs had ever done the same thing. Her answer was no. Our little chat had to be up at that point so i left her by saying that she needs to look at her history, because she will find they have indeed done exactly what Camping did...

    oz

  • still thinking
    still thinking

    Nicely done Aussie....gentle but focused....let her reason it out herself....she seems like a bright girl....slowly does it....one topic at a time. sow the seeds and let them grow

  • sizemik
    sizemik

    Nice going Oz . . . asking the right questions and letting her recognise the flaws for herself . . . seems to be the right formula.

    Softly softly also though . . . she may well raise these things with her JW friends . . . and get the usual response.

  • Ding
    Ding

    The fact that she continued the conversation with you even after it got uncomfortable for her is encouraging.

  • NomadSoul
    NomadSoul

    That's a good approach. Hope those seeds grow.

  • moshe
    moshe

    Good job Oz, that's the way to plant seeds.

    It's to bad the CO didn't stop at my house in field service- I would have given his ears a good twist with my rendition of Jehovah's Witness real history-

  • chickpea
    chickpea

    your approach is so lovingly pragmatic

    lucky kids to have your devotion to their well-being

    keeping it real, oz.... you do it so well

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    You could point her to my little 1914 video (I know self promoting again)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5uj8TyeLg

  • RayPublisher
    RayPublisher

    I got a little one of my own that is already partially brain-locked. Good stuff.

    Also the reasoning about the number of people being born every year (in the multi-millions) and how many will have to be destroyed to save the ones that get baptized as JWs...Is waiting to bring an end to the system really "loving of Jehovah"?

  • Aussie Oz
    Aussie Oz

    Thankyou everybody

    she still could go either way really...

    and Cantleave, you can self promote anytime!

    oz

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