Does anyone feel the same way? I am not anti-video, just feeling overload. Since the JW organization started video production there has been such a flood of it that no one can, or possibly even wants to keep up with it all: Some thoughts and questions I"ve had -
I seldom get through the monthly broadcast without becoming drowsy and rarely finish watching it. The GB Updates are posted online, then re-played at the meetings.
Do Witness children even like the Caleb and Sophia videos? They've been around long enough now that if they aged chronologically they"d be in thir teens.
At our meetings every video played is still applauded, evidently to show how appreciative everyone is. I can see this happening at an Assembly or Convention where they're being seen for the first time but this seems like just habit. The congregation we share the hall with does not do this.
The Ramapo video production facility project, if it really ever does proceed still puzzles me. With video already being produced in various parts of the world, the only reason I can see for one centalized location is so they can more closely supervise content. It's been said it could only be really just a Real Estate investment but it still seems an odd location. It's also been speculated that it could be the platform for a paid subscription streaming service, but would there really be major interest in that, even among Witnesses, who are used to receiving it "free"?
How effective really is the current " Enjoy Life Forever" study publication? It was supposed to be revolutionary in its use of, again, video. Interactive and conversation driven. I do think a few of them are well done, but there are too many. One of the introductory lessons contains an overlong one on William Tyndale. Several of them seem just in to get the student conditioned to listening to Governing Body members speak. Also with 60 some lessons -admittedly brief- it's still one of the longest study programs we've used. I would imagine many students "drop out" before getting that far...