by quellycatface 5 Replies latest jw friends
Hi guys. Hope you all had a good Christmas and a peaceful time with your loved ones.
The reason I ask this question is, I have lived in many areas due to work committments.
I find in the areas which have lower standards of schools, have more congregations. Yet, in more affluent and better school areas, there are fewer KH's.
I hate to stereotype but are the Borg aware of this and turn it into their advantage?
I saw the same thing when I pioneered. In the poorer sections of the city I always had 10-12 studies going at a time compared to 1-2 in well to do areas.
I don't know if it's deliberately turned to their advantage, but I have noticed higher income areas yield fewer jws, even if they're more densely populated. I don't know if there's causality here as my city is a city mostly populated by people who move here as opposed to people born here. Most people who live in my city have moved from interstate or overseas, including jws. It could he that because jws are poorer they settle in poorer areas where the cost of living is cheaper.
It is easier also to find a lot of poorer people at home while witnessing, such as people in housing commission, unemployed and parents with young children. Our territory had from public housing and homeless shelters to some of the most expensive homes in the country. The ones in the high class places were almost impossible to get home, or were only there part of the year. They live in mansions with high walls and intercoms so when, on the odd rare occasion we got someone home via the intercom, they weren't interested. It was far easier to get people home and actually talk face to face in the housing and lower income areas. We used to have a saying that applied to those in waterfront mansions or massive acreage properties with rainforest gardens and sea views: " they don't need our message because they already have their paradise." Traditionally it is the poor and downtrodden who take the opiate of religion, not those who live comfortable.
Seems logical to me — poverty and desperation generates a need for magical helpers and gods.
" Traditionally it is the poor and downtrodden who take the opiate of religion, not those who live comfortable."
Well said Julia!
Unfortunately the answer to that is yes.
Possibly due many other extenuating psychological conditions stemming from poverty
not just a lower standard of education alone.
