https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/under-the-sun-why-a-local-woman-wants-to-nail-the-jehovahs-witnesses-11545704 is a news article about one Methodist woman's angry letter writing to the JWs, in response to the JWs' letter writing campaign.
Degree of Effectiveness of JW Letter Writing Form of Witnessing
by Disillusioned JW 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Disillusioned JW
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Diogenesister
*Blues B. The purpose of it is not primarily to make disciples, it is to count time. If it were to really reach people they would have people use their computers and home printers to churn out letters by the dozen and have them all sent.*
NB I actually fell for the letter as I opened it! I mean for a minute I was all happy to receive a kind letter from a "new" neighbour!(he wrote he'd recently moved to the neighbourhood. Is that standard??)
* Yes and I know this because I recently received THREE copies of EXACTLY THE SAME letter, handwritten mind you, addressed to "neighbour" at my address.
Why not just print out copies since the wording is exactly the same? The person had obviously lost track of which addresses they had already written to because they arrived one after the other!! Anyway it's definitely about killing time so as to report more hours, not about getting that message out asap.
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SnakesInTheTower
I have received 3 in the last year from people I knew well. One was a copy paste, with my name added, with no indication he knew me well, though we had spent many hours working at our local assembly hall. One from an elder where I served locally. He could just knock on my door. Obviously he had my new address from someone ( I bought a house 2 doors down from where I rented 20 plus years).
The only genuine letter was a handwritten letter from two sisters (related to each other) who wrote a very kind letter reminiscing about our family, my parents, etc. No heavy preaching. I have responded to none so far.
I just really, except my 77 year old JW mom, who I have a good relationship with but lives 10 hours away, and a couple of "weak" JWs, I just leave them be.
Snakes ( )