What exactly IS a "Publisher"??

by LovesDubs 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • CoonDawg
    CoonDawg

    I remember when I became a publisher, I just started turning in time slips and trying to get that .30 for each set of magazines I sold. Of course, we were supposed to keep the money to buy more magazines...but mine always went to BREAK -TIME!

    CoonDawg

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    NameWithheld,

    No time reports are accepted from non-publishers. Publishers do indeed include children of adult JW's as I mentioned earlier.

    Even children have to meet with the elders before they can turn in time reports. Of course other smaller children tag along in the ministry with their parents (before they're old enough to become publishers).

    Loves Dubs, you asked about "non publishers":

    you mean somebody who hasnt been asked by the elders if they stopped smoking and shacking up?
    LOL - Yeah that's what I meant. Don't you gotta "clean up your life" to meet Jehovah's (that is, the Watchtower's) righteous standards?? LOLOL

    Funny, they probably don't ask the prospective publishers what they think of child molestation.

  • NameWithheld
    NameWithheld

    Gopher, ah I see. I guess that was what I was getting at when I edited my above post to add "AND the elders have 'approved' you" - there is a process you have to go through to be considered 'an unbaptised publisher' or whatever they call them today.

  • lv4fer
    lv4fer

    You can have the PRIVILEDGE of being a publisher removed even if you are not baptised and you do something wrong. They will announced that so and so is no longer an unbaptised publisher. I've seen this quite frequently with kids who in their teenage years become a bit rebellious.

  • Mary
    Mary

    A Publisher is another name for a SUCKER!!

  • rebel
    rebel

    The way it happened with me was this.

    First I had to be interviewed to see if I was good enough to join the Ministry School

    Then I had an interview to see if I was good enough to called a Publisher (un unbaptised one)

    Then I had to have an interview to see if I was good enough to get baptised.

    Now I am waiting for an interview to see if they are going to 'sack' me!

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Rebel,

    Haven't you been "interviewed" enough??

    Maybe it's time to just walk away, no more questioning/badgering allowed!

  • Jourles
    Jourles
    though I would bet that if you factor in the number of non-reporting baptised JWs (who are NOT counted in the # of pubs) then the figures may even out.

    Glad to see I am helping flatten the numbers out in whatever way I can.

  • gumby
    gumby

    You guys are rustier than shit! You've been out to long and need to study more...the end is nigh. Time is counted as I stated.

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