Preaching from house to house does not work, most JW's are either born into it, or recruited into it by friends. So why do it? Why is the organisation so keen? Because it reinforces your 'otherness' from everyone around you. It also is a statement of - I know more than you do. I'm cleverer than you because I've worked out the hidden message of the bible and you're too stupid, prejudiced, wicked to do so. So that awful feeling you go through as a child, when you've knocked on the door of someone in your class, forces you to accept that you CANNOT ever be like others. Later when your brainwashing has been completed, you replace that with a feeling of smugness. Look at me, God loves me, but he doesn't even like you. You're rubbish. You don't have the wit to get yourself down to the Kingdom Hall and hang out with the good people. It's not about helping others to see 'the truth', it's about reinforcing your identity as a good, clever, wise, wonderful person, at the same time as making any sort of real contact with anyone outside impossible. You can't pretend to be normal. Not when everyone knows what you spend Saturday (or all week} doing.
Posts by gin
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34Why do Jehovahs Witnesses preach from house to house?
by mankkeli inthis explanation is extracted from the reasoning book, page 205. .
jesus foretold for our day this work: this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
he also instructed his followers: go .
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