I think that they hesitate to put anything in print, because it always bites them in the ass. They can wipe stupid teachings off the website like it never existed (1984), but we can prove what they put in print. Hold on to your old literature, it’s a gold mine!
No more public WT & Awake?
by mikeflood 48 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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wannaexit
Oh What ??? no more magazine day???
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BoogerMan
Just 'phoned the Branch re the Public edition of the WT & the Awake mags.
Bi-monthly; the Jan/Feb issue will be a reprint from 2018 and will appear soon!
A new article dealing with mental health will be presented by JW's in May 2023.
I was informed that everyone is becoming more & more 'electronic,' (sic) so more and more articles are now coming out in digital format on the JWBorg website - articles which won't appear in paper mags.
Digitisation of everything is clearly the org's target.
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blondie
I went on WOL and looked for public WTS, and there are none. Probably the WTS will just have jws use the old magazines that are piling up at KHs and people's homes.
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Reasonfirst
Since I'm now old and nearing the end of my life, I'm not having many new experiences to remember, so one of the things my mind does (to keep itself busy) is to regurgitate old ones.
So no more print magazines. Oh! Shit! Have I got some memories.
Yeah! The day I arrived at a new special pioneer assignment (the previous guys had thoughtfully left the tenancy of an old one room farm building for me), and on the table was a stack of several hundreds of WTs and Awakes, still rolled up in the bundles, as posted by the WTS. This I think, was a hangover from Russell's days when bible societies (not only the WT bible and Tract one) would provide bible literature to 'colporteurs' at highly reduced rates to support themselves while flogging bible shit across the country.
A Circus serpent, (Ron Walters, if any Aussie remembers him) arrived shortly after, and I innocently asked him what to do with those old magazines. He snapped back at me, "Place them, of course." This NSW country town had a population of about 4000 and my only transport was a bike to cover the sparse rural areas.
I thought about it for a while, and concluded the mags deserved a christian burial. The soil around my hut was too hard, So I biked a few km out of town. to a bridge over a nearly dry creek, and buried them under the bridge.
It rained a few days later, and the next time i went over that bridge, I found that the rain had caused the creek to flow, and the mags. were floating, reproachfully, face up to old YHWH.
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Beth Sarim
''Oh What ??? no more magazine day??? ''
It seems, evidently, apparently the Borg wants to distance itself from 'hardcopies' paper copies which can expose the Borg when its' claims fall flat on their face.
The Borg can ,clearly, direct people to their website when the Borg maybe update things or sanitize what they say to distance themselves from foolhardy ideologies, perhaps.
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Caminante
This is the cover of the 2023 public edition of The Watchtower.
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Reasonfirst
Another "BAD" memory:
Who could place (sell) the most magazines?
In good old Aussie land, the champion must have been a guy called Vince McNee. He's an interesting character.
He came from Brissie (Brisbane), and had been raised in a catholic orphanage, local witnesses spoke of him being the 'illegitimate' child of a certain local Catholic priest.
Whatever the truth of that, he certainly had certain Irish charm characteristics and could give spell-binding talks.
In Sydney we first got to know him when he was appointed as a circuit overseer, and was willing to do things a little differently.
Like witnessing on Sydney's suburban train network. His technique was simple. Start from one end and work the 8 carriages to the end. He'd approach the passengers, holding out the two magazines, and say, "The latest, 20 cents!" Whether it was his Irish charm or whatever, I don't know, but he could place 100s of magazines in a day.
If you were travelling on the train network, and found WT's and Awakes scattered around, you'd know that Vince had been on that train. The fact that the mags. were on the floor indicated that few had been read.
The Train dept. soon became unhappy with the litter, and banned sales of any product on the network.
I said Vince was an interesting guy. He was twice, invited to Gilead, and twice dismissed from Gilead. I never heard why.
He finally came to an end, when no longer used in any organisational capacity, his wife came home unexpectedly one day, and found him in the shower with a certain handsome young ex-bethel brother.
He was divorced, and disfellowshipped, and I never heard of him again.
But he could certainly place magazines!
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Vidiot
Wow. It really is the end of an era.
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Can’t help but wonder if this is yet another example of circling-the-wagons-slash-closing-ranks.
After all, the fewer publications there are, the less material is available to be offered door-to-door, the less door-to-door work can be done, and the less any halfway-knowledgeable householder can ask uncomfortable questions to those going door-to-door.
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wannaexit
My father could place hundreds of magazines a month. When the "circuit serpent" came around, my father was questioned. I guess the circuit serpent thought my father was making the numbers up. But he wasen't , he was seriously placing his own quota and everyone elses.
My dad is quite elderly now and he can't understand why his beloved organization has stopped printing all the lovely (not) magazines.
