Yet more trolley (in)activity (page 4)

steve2

At last the organization's increasingly bland literature is interchangeable with sweetly frosted cupcakes. Eat your heart out, Rutherford, you with the fire, vengeance and venom. Your organization has gone all soft and sugary in the 21st Century.

Half banana

I was in central London two days ago with twenty minutes to spare and felt like doing some JW-baiting (bit like bear-baiting but not so bloody). But when I got to Oxford Circus tube station the resident JW was chewing the fat with a passing fellow believer. I felt like interrupting and saying "Do you mind but you are already converted and I want to have an exclusive and devastating argument with this lady". I didn't... heigh ho.

eyeuse2badub

The trolley work is preparing the rank and file for when the trolleys will be used to sell(on a donation basis of course) 'theocratic' tacos or 'spiritually enriched' coffee and donuts. The borg has to raise money somehow.

just saying!

eyeuse2badub

blondie

Is she selling those cakes?

respectful_observer

done4good14 hours agoI have to say, I work in NYC and have yet to see one of these things.
I also have not even seen JW in my neighborhood in NJ in several years.
d4g

They're usually parked outside the 42nd St./7th Ave. subway entrance in Times Sq across from Walgreen's. I've also seen them in Port Authority bus terminal pretty frequently.

Vidiot

berrygerry - "...My Dad became a Dub so he could marry my Mom. Same thing with an older Elder in our KH. He's given his story many times over the decades - started studying to marry his Dub wife. Seems like it works far better statistically than the otherwise 10,000 hours spent per new recruit (including the infant baptisms)."

Explains why marrying outside the Org has never been a DFing offense.

Maybe the WTS is clueing in more these days, and that's why they don't rant about it quite so much anymore.

steve2

Blondie, she's not selling those cakes; instead she's offering 2 free cupcakes with every piece of literature placed. Imagine what freebies you'd get if you had a Bible Study with her!

Phizzy

I reckon it depends upon the "quality" of JW operating the Trolley. 99.99999% will just ignore passers by, and if approached will simply dish out a Tract or something, that is meaningless to the Public.

So far so good, from my point of view.

The only exception that I know of is my old Street Witnessing partner, we started doing it way back when the org did not even mention it, we used to go to Markets, busy High Streets that were not even in our Rural territory, but were where people went.

We even managed once to embarrass a C.O who was visiting a Congo in the town we were in, to join us for a while, he had been out shopping with his wife on a Sat afternoon when he spotted us, doing what he should have been doing, I guess he felt.

I saw my old mucker the other day, with a Trolley, he is now in his late seventies, was manning it by himself, but was engaging whoever he could in conversation and offering the books etc, without much success I noted.

He is a one-off, the average JW will have zero effect, but will feel they are doing their bit. Suckers.

Sofia Lose

The elders tried to sign me up for this 'preaching cart' thing and I politely told them "no, thanks. I prefer knocking on doors or writing letters." To this day they look at me in a suspect sort of way. I do not care. I ain't wasting my time, looking weird, in some public corner. No way!

SL

truthseeker100

Sofia Lose " I ain't wasting my time, looking weird, in some public corner. No way!"

That's exactly the way I felt going door to door as a child. LOL

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