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personal websites in the JW???

by christina in

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hi everybody - can you spare a minute and tell me about your personal experiences regaring having a personal webpage as a jw?.

i am working on a school project about jw and the internet and in this connection i interviewed a representative of the society.

i asked him about personal websites and he said explicitly that, "there is nothing stopping individual witnesses from setting up that sort, and we dont say nobody is to have a website and all that kind of, you know that is entirely a matter for the individual to determine".. however, i can't really make that fit with the impression i get from surfing personal websites.

christina

Hi Carlo

I checked out your page. According to both the JW articles, your own statement (the don't-policy) and the other replies it definitely seems like the society discourages personal websites - as well as general use of the Net.

But then, having your own webpage, does that not give you problems in your Congregation?? I talked to another witness, an american girl. She had been receiving nasty emails, accusing her of being an apostate etc.. Does that happen to you??
And if not, do you think that the policies might be more lineant in Denmark???

What do the rest of you think??

Christina

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personal websites in the JW???

by christina in

jw
friends

hi everybody - can you spare a minute and tell me about your personal experiences regaring having a personal webpage as a jw?.

i am working on a school project about jw and the internet and in this connection i interviewed a representative of the society.

i asked him about personal websites and he said explicitly that, "there is nothing stopping individual witnesses from setting up that sort, and we dont say nobody is to have a website and all that kind of, you know that is entirely a matter for the individual to determine".. however, i can't really make that fit with the impression i get from surfing personal websites.

christina

hi everybody - can you spare a minute and tell me about your personal experiences regaring having a personal webpage as a JW?

I am working on a school project about JW and the Internet and in this connection I interviewed a representative of the society.

I asked him about personal websites and he said explicitly that, "there is nothing stopping individual Witnesses from setting up that sort, and we don’t say nobody is to have a website and all that kind of, you know that is entirely a matter for the individual to determine".

However, I can't really make that fit with the impression I get from surfing personal websites. Several of these seem to reflect a strong JW discouragement of personal websites, e.g. they talk about maybe having to remove the pages. Another very dedicated JW who has such a webpage has told me how she now and then receives angry and rude e-mails from fellow JWs who accuse her of being an apostate.

So, what should I believe?? Is it really a completely personal decision to set up a personal webpage?? Or does the society discourage it?? If yes, how?? Through congregational meetings?? Can people with personal webpages be disfellowshipped??

With other words, what are your experiences??

christina

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