by JH 6 Replies latest jw friends
We all know that the WTS has a web site at http://www.watchtower.org but I was wondering if we find this on the Awake and Watchtower magazines, or on any other litereature that they produce?
I ask this because we all know that they don't want to encourage too many witnesses to go surfing on the net looking at religious information out there, but they do want to have a web site to attract worldly people.
Yes.
I believe they do... but I don't think they put it in many publications.
I just checked the new Keep on the Watch brochure and I could not find it
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Yes
these are the latest mags AFAIK
Anglise
for along time the wt only had it mentioned in like 3 places and they all were in Internal material such as the KM
if you go back thru the archives here you will find we discussed that issue at length- and then finally they started to mention it
it was discussed in a thread that deals with the fact that the latest wt and awake CAN NOT BE OBTAINED ON THE NET-
so here we have the most important message to all of mankind, and we have the most powerful tool known to man today the NET and the wt neither provides their latest mag ( heck cnn updates thier site every 10min) and the wt comes out every 2 weeks-
they have no ablity to access their vast library of food from jw, no research can be done on wt website- yet the wt currently has digitized practiclly all of the publications they have ever printed, yet they are not avaiblble to the avg man on the street,
i guess they want to hand deliver them to everyone- smile
I believe the url is also in the front cover with the printing distribution information that appears in the watchtower at least, cant remember about the awake and I certainly dont feel like looking for a magazine to check.
Well, imagine this. Somebody picks up a watchtower or awake in their doctor's waiting room and they're interested in finding out more. There wasn't a JW at the doctor's office to talk to and the website wasn't prominently displayed (if it was there, I bet it's buried or in small print). So, they go home and google Watchtower. watchtower.org (the official site) comes up first, but above the website, there are product search results for "watchtower" as well. One of them is a link to a book on Barnes & Noble called "Index of Watchtower Errors, 1879 to 1989".
Among other links on the page are watchtower.observer.org, freeminds.org, www.watchtowerinformationservice.org, and others.
So, once again, they are trapped by their own rigid viewpoints. After warning everyone about the internet and trying to keep people off of it, it's hard for them to advertise their own website which will draw curious JWs onto the evil internet or make some think there's a double-standard. But without advertising their website, "interested ones" looking for more info on the net won't know exactly where to go and will be forced to use a search engine to find their website. And along with their website, they will find all sorts of anti-JW sites!!!
It would seem to me their goals would be better met by advertising their website prominently. It might send a mixed message to some JWs, but the well brainwashed JW will be able to distinguish between their "safe" site and the "evil" rest of the internet. It shows what they feel about the intelligence of their followers that they don't trust them to know the difference. There's many reasons for people to be online. They can't stop that. The best they can do is accept it and work with it.
