whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
"AnnB I see your still a JW eh? "
You don't see anything, that interpretation is in your own head.
"YOU FOCUS on my reply"
As the English so elequently say, naff off, lady! My comment was directed to a specific poster and it wasn't you.
That some people attribute their exit from JW's to picketing isn't the issue here; whatever happened to picketing *is*.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
To make *picketing* more effective one would have to do something to enhance the picketing itself, not add media coverage or any external source of attention.
Now, if you are saying you want to make your thoughts visible to a larger audience or diversify your method of delivery, then media would be something to consider.
Picketing itself, as it's usually done, is rather limited.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
The topic of this thread is picketing, not being pro-active or countering media coverage. While these may make fine topics for other threads, they do not address the original question which was "Whatever happened to this long lost activity?"
I contend that picketing died out because it was less effective than other methods for making the target audience "think".
Please, focus!
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
Counter what, the attendance or the media coverage? Please elucidate.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
Then it's the media coverage, not the picketing. Media coverage enhances all sorts of activities, even attendance at District Conventions.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
But the topic is "picketing", eh?
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
"... "Oh no without the picketer's I would never had the tract..."
The people who handed you the tract were doing two things, carrying around signs and handing out leaflets. It wasn't the picketing that you paid attention to, it was the leaflet.
You can't say you would "never" have had the tract, you might have acquired the same information in some other way.
The fact that you made fun of the picketers but did accept a leaflet seems to support the notion that picketing is relatively ineffective, even offputting.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
"... year a leaflet was placed in my hand and I read it..."
So it wasn't the picketing that did it at all, was it? It was reading the leaflet.
whatever happened to this long lost activity?
i can remember a time when you couldn't make it from the convention doors to your car without being approached by at least one glassy-eyed apostate holding a sign or thrusting a homemade tract under your nose.
ahhhh, those were the days...
"...just a sign to tell you to think!..."
IMO, picketing isn't popular because it only tells what the picketer is thinking, it doesn't really affect the thinking of the target audience. "Good" JW's close their minds, if not also their eyes, to "apostate" messages on picket signs and mentally compare the picketers to the demonic forces who oppose their God and his purposes.
thought someone besides me might find this information useful.
i think it can be used to help those that are df, shunned, or just leaving the organization.. http://www.boblivingstone.com/content/recovering-rejection.
recovering from rejectionwe all get rejected at different times in our lives.
That article seemed to me to be playing "one up"; that the person (or group) doing the rejecting had the freedom to reject an individual and that individual had no choice but to learn to accept and cope.
That's all very fine for when the person has a "right" of rejection, but what about when they don't?
In cases of DF'ing the rejection is mandated by people who don't have a real right to force their decision on anyone else, but do, so that 6 million+ people will reject an individual without ever really making up their own minds whether they want to or not.
What about people who are too immature to really know what they are rejecting as in the case of a child or an ill-informed person?
