Okay, so I've been trying to figure out what I can do to help JWs out. Obviously, no one can force someone to think, but sometimes a thought-provoking question can get the gears turning. So I hit upon this idea of placing ads in a weekly newspaper here in Seattle. The back page is kind of a bulletin board, with random, unclassified ads. You can purchase a large one for only 22 bucks. I like the idea of this paper because the only Witnesses that would be reading it would be pretty liberal, and it seems that they stand a better chance of waking up.
I want to place ads that are thought-provoking, but not heavy-handed. Rather than coming out with something like "You protect pedophiles!", I would be thinking more along the lines of a question like, "What is unconditional love? Why is it important?"
I want the ads to contain a lot of whitespace. Maybe something like this:
JWs
Is it honest to avoid information
that challenges your beliefs?
I want to start each ad with the initials as above because for Witnesses, those initials stand out from a page like the word sex. For me, it would have been virtually impossible for me to see the back cover of a paper like this and not notice something like that.
So here's the call to action: Help me come up with candidates for my ads. I'm thinking of placing one every couple weeks. Very short, as the example above. I might add an email address at the end, like [email protected], but I wonder if perhaps that will dilute the quality of the message.
What are your thoughts?
SNG