They love it. It is so simple. promote the website and all your questions will be answered. With the website all glossied up and moderne they are receiving a lot of positive feedback. They worship the website. This year is especially exciting for them. As been pointed out they are advertising the kingdom. Hypnotized, brainwashed, delusional and all gung-ho in this 100th year of invisible kingdom rule.
Want to get JW friends' thoughts on their "new" preaching methods.
by compound complex 17 Replies latest jw friends
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nonjwspouse
No tracts in our populated neighborhood, yet in a months long vacated rental I went to spruce up yesterday to get ready to rent, there inside, between the security door and front door was a folded up jw.org tract.
Just thought I'd share
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compound complex
Thank you, everyone, for sharing your thoughts! They're much appreciated.
Fernando -- I had no idea!!! Thanks for the heads up. Maybe I should spend a little time at "my" website . . .
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EverApostate
When I was in, I asked about this to my dear good friend (Now he considers me as his worst enemy coz I left). He proudly stated that Jah is spreading the good news through the Internet, to places where the preaching work is banned. I got that as a very silly explanation. You mean , the Almighty god has to rely upon mans technology to sneak in his good news? Can’t he lift the ban in those countries?
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Magnum
I am shocked and baffeled by the change in the preaching work (and other changes in JWdom) and am still trying to mentally process it. My opinion now is that the preaching change came about as a result of the fact that as time goes on there are fewer and fewer JWs who are capable of preaching and teaching as in the old days. Many have not even read the Bible. As I mentioned on another thread, some literally couldn't put the following in chronological order: Jesus, Abraham, Paul, Moses. Also, the org knows that its doctrines and it itself are becoming less defendable with the passing of time and the increasing availability of knowledge. Therefore, the org is playing it safe by having JWs just hand out tracts and trying to keep them from situations in which they could be asked hard questions.
DocHouse: if YOU don't preach, you are a hypocrite for playing judge.
I am quiet capable of and justified in playing judge. I have a PhD in preaching. Was expert at it. Pioneered for years the hard way. Turned in 140 hours some months.
DocHouse:
Fact is, more and more will read from a website than a Bible.
So the website really helps many.
Completely illogical and meaningless. How do you know that it's a fact that "more will read from a website than a Bible" and what does that statement even mean - that more people will read from the internet (in general) than print? Are you saying that more people who are interested in JWs will read from JW.ORG than they would the Bible? That's a very vague statement.
You follow up your statement of "fact" with "so the website really helps many." How do you arrive at that conclusion? I could say "more and more people will eat at fast food joints than at home, so fast food joints really help people." The fact that people might be more apt to do something doesn't necessarily mean that doing it helps them.
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Apognophos
Let's use simple word substitution to get at what DocHouse is really saying:
Fact is, more and more will read from a [religious web site that interprets the Bible and adds in man-made teachings] than a Bible.
So the [religious web site that interprets the Bible and adds in man-made teachings] really helps many.