Think about it. What good is a scheduled return visit if a disaster is EMINENT ?????
Why not use a more effective way to reach folks ??????
The Time is More Important than Results
by OnTheWayOut 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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rip van winkle
I guess it all depends on where you live. I'm in NY. Even early in the morning there are always people. I enjoyed street work and other types of informal witnessing because I actually would have conversations with people. Businesses are opened early. People travelling by bus and trains. You never find as many people home as you find in street work.
And we always walked- we were not standing in front of someones business or on a corner holding up magazines.
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WTWizard
Either way, it is a complete waste of time. You are supposed to stop territory work--suppose someone has a call? Get fresh territories--even if you just worked the damn territory yesterday, that doesn't count. You get three weeks to put as many wastes of paper in people's faces--or doors--as possible, and you are expected to reach the whole territory. Then it's back to regular territory--I hope they get a good number of people pxxxed off without getting anyone to their REJECT Astaroth Wastefest (which I wish a good many of them to be cancelled).
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zed is dead
Nothing new under the sun. SSDD.
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mouthy
Oh your making fun of my faithful service But the "Brothers" used to tell me
"Grace if you were a man you could be a circuit servant!!!!!"Thats when I used to wish I was born
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life is to short
That is what I truly hated about service. I really bought into it being a life saving work and I thought everyone else in the religion did too. I remember right in the middle of my awaking because of the pedophiles in my hall and I was still trying desperately to believe it was the "truth" I went out in service during the CO's visit and he used the illustration of our preaching work would be like our seeing a house on fire with people inside not knowing that their house was burning up. The CO said we would do what ever it took to wake up the people inside, to get them out, to save their lives. This is what we are doing by going door to door we are telling them this world is on fire and they need to wake up. This was in 2009. I remember thinking finally a CO that gets it. Oh how stupid I was it was all just hype.
Now looking back at all the times I went out in service it was just wasted time like you mentioned and I totally knew it and I tried to get the JW's I was with to do more but I was was helpless, no one wanted to really talk to anyone. I was always so frustrated.
I remember street work. It got so bad in the city I live in that the shops downtown started to complain as there were so many JW's just loitering around that the JW city overseer had to put a stop to it and assign congregations a day or two to do street work.
But the worst was when I pioneered. We lived in the country because a CO had asked my husband to go where the need was great. It was so much just a waste of time, gas, etc. We would meet for service pile five if not six people into our small Honda Civic which would be bottoming out at ever bump because of the weight. We would make a call in the small town we lived in to start our time then travel 70 to 80 miles over to the river where we would work the rule territory. I would be lucky if I got out of the car two times in the day and I was always stuck in the middle of the backseat because everyone was so huge and I was the smallest one. I just hated it with people pressing in on me from both side, and this one "brother" who would insist on sitting in my front seat would crank the heat up as high as he could. My husband did not want to offend him by asking he to keep it cooler. I would just be so sick to my stomach. We would spend five to six hours beating the heck out of our car then we would drive back home make a call and be able to count 8 to 10 hours. We burned through gas like it was water no one gave us a dime to help out. We put over 30,000 miles on a year on the car and I worked 30 to 35 hours a week just to pay for it all. I begged my husband to help change things but I was told it was the way it was at least the Angles saw what we were doing even if we never talked to anyone.
I was totally going crazy. I am a very active person who needs to fill full-filled in what ever I do and wasting my money this was was not full-filling in any way. When more elders moved into the hall I went to them and then the CO begging them to talk to the grocery store or anything to see if we could do a sort of street work in our small town but they thought that it would look silly. I was like and having five to six people in a small Honda Civic driving aimlessly looks sane???????????? And plus how are we saving lives???????? When we were not talking to anyone???????
I know realize that it is all just hot air, just talk about their thinking it is a life saving work. That CO in 2009 was just as much of a time waster as any of the others. His speach about the burning house was just a stupid ploy to make him feel better. He loved his coffee breaks more they trying to get people out of that burning house.
They just fool themselves and pat themselves on their backs thinking they are special when they are making total fools of themselves.
LITS
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wasblind
Hello there Granny
It not's necessary to tote those around to screw
It was a sister who screwed me into thinkin' the WTS had the truth
And I always considered myself to be heterosexual
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OnTheWayOut
I'm in NY. Even early in the morning there are always people.
There are places here that always have people. But not the street these members were walking this morning.
They just fool themselves and pat themselves on their backs thinking they are special when they are making total fools of themselves.
Amen, sister.
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mouthy
No darling!!!! I was taught the burning hose speech also. You sound as if you were just as stupid as me!!!!!
I love ya!lifeisshort...how is hubby coming along?????I pray for him & YOU often -
mouthy
Poor you wasblind!!!! Im NOT blind NOw!!! Neither are you