JW Literature-why not public? (page 2)

DevonMcBride

If the WT sold their books in a book store, too many people would read them alone, think about it, and see through their bogus teachings without an indoctrination process. Right now they only read them as part of a bible study or book study with JW's who use brainwashing techniques as they study them.

misspeaches

Here's another possible reason why you won't see JW literature in a bookshop.

The way that they are ogranised now they don't have to pay any taxes... So they just make all this profit. By distributing their literature in bookshops they will then need to pay tax!

Oroborus21

Misspeaches,

not necessarily. the books could still be offered on a "donation" basis thus technically no sales taxes (presumign they were using their own stores or had a book room at the Kingdom Hall).

-ed

AllAlongTheWatchtower

"By the way, the title of your post is misleading as (most) JW literature is entirely public. Incidently, I wonder, since in order to obtain a U.S. federal copyright, two copies of the work must be furnished to the Library of Congress, whether it is possible for someone to access such "secret" publications as the Flock book ("Paying Attention to Yourselfs and to the Flock") and branch manuals, etc.? Anyone in D.C. know?"

Well I certainly didn't intend it to be missleading, sorry if you thought it was. I'd like to point out though, that if their literature is supposedly public, how is it that they can claim breach of contract in their lawsuit against the user here that goes by the sn "Quotes"? Interesting that you should mention copyrights as well, once I found out none of the WTS literature was in bookstores, it made me curious and I looked at all the books JWs have given my wife to see if they had copyrights. They do. I had a fleeting theory that maybe that's why they weren't in bookstores, that maybe they had no copyrights, but that got shot down quickly, some of them had multiple copyrights even, updated every 6 years or so.

oldflame

I went to a Christian book store a couple of years ago to find a particular book that I do not remember now what the book was called. I could not find the book or any book on Jehovahs Witnesses. I asked the counter person why not and I was told that JW books are not allowed in their store as well as most Christian book stores because they are not Christian and are a cult. They proceeded to tell me that any religion that takes away from the true diety of Christ are not sold in Christian book stores. Sounded pretty good to me and made perfect sense. After all I was in a Christian book store and knowing full well that they are not christians, I left in agreement and was glad to see that true christians were being protected in those book stores. So that might be why you could not find the book you were looking for.

Lady Lee

scenario 1

Ok I'm Ms Jo Blow and I go to a store and buy a WTS book and take it home. Upon reading it I see a lot of flaws in their reasoning and chuck the book in the trash

scenario 2

JW shows up and my door and offers me a free book for a small donation. How nice. She is also offering me a free home Bible study. Wow really nice. So we make a time for her to come back and we can start our study.

She and a friend return and we start reading a paragraph and then answer the question and maybe look up a scripture or two that are listed in the paragraph. Then we repeat this over and over, mind-numbingly over.

Now as we all know WTS doctrines are extremely complicated to comprehend. It requires the simplicity of the time honored system for studying the Bible. It would be impossible for the average person with a university degree to comprehend it all unless it was presented in such a simplified manner with the assistance of this nice person who is willing to help me understand it all.

Hey I know people who have been baptized for decades and still could not explain the basis teachings concerning the last days and the chronology. It must be complicated.

Ok I will take my tongue out of my cheek

Kenneson

What I find is that even libraries sometimes have few books pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses. In our library I found the Search book by the Watchtower and 2 ex-Jehovah's Witness works, Visions of Glory and Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness. And that's it.

Lady Lee

If you ask at your libaray to order a particular book they will do it.

I know at my old library in Montreal they couldn't keep the books on thes helves especially if they were anti-WTS. Presumably JWs would take them out and never return them.

I have gone into used book stores and they have told me they refuse to carry WTS litterature because they recognize it as a cult and they don't want to pass that on to the public. And yes I usually ask if they have any and that is the response I get when they say they don't have them

stillajwexelder

It is ironic - the literature (or most of it) is suppose to be distributed to the public free - and yet it is also restricted. WEIRD

blondie

JW literature, not public?

Not officially, anyway. You can obtain almost anything through Ebay, Alibris, Amazon used books, Freeminds, etc. I think JWs are finding a new source of revenue.

Blondie

JW Literature-why not public?

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