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  Digital Billboards and Anti Witnessing.

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  just thinking out loud here.

  i drive a lot of miles for my job in the st. louis, missouri area.

  digital billboards popping up.

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  I think most people wouldn't pay much attention to it all. Might be worth a punt but I'm not convinced.
  

  I think people outside the WT couldn't care less, which means, the billboards will be catering specifically people who have interest in the WT, who may or may not pass by them and read it for a few seconds.

  And then the message written has to speak to them, and it's a well known fact that many people join the WT (and everything else for that matter) join for many different reasons. What exactly will it have to say? Additionally, there are many JWs who can't even articulate some of their teachings, leave alone use what they read outside about it. So the billboard may have to:

  1. Be located where/when a specific group of people can see it
  2. Catch their attention
  3. Be about something they understand or care to learn more from an outside source
  4. Be about something that speaks to their own specific situation

  Doesn't sound to me like a venture worthy of time and money.
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  Digital Billboards and Anti Witnessing.

  by SnakesInTheTower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just thinking out loud here.

  i drive a lot of miles for my job in the st. louis, missouri area.

  digital billboards popping up.

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  scratchme1010

  Thoughts?
  

  I don't need to preach and save anyone from anything. I can't care less what the WT does or say, what they preach, none of that. Those are the reasons why I left. Why on Earth would I want to continue my relationship with them?

  Use the time and money in catching up with your retirement.
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  Advice from you to non jw

  by Salley in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not a jw, but know a jw family.

  seem very loving and happy.

  i have come to know the religion and have researched via this site,youtube, reddit etc.

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  As a non jw this is just so sad to read. please share your thoughts.

  It is sad indeed, but it's still their choice.
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  Have you read this book?

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  have you read this book?

  not sure if i should purchase this book?

  it might help ex jws more than never a jw.

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  I wrote it
  
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  Suggestions for bookreading

  by CitizenofEarth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just read the "atheists book of bible stories" by fred titanich, and i rather enjoyed it.

  alot indeed.

  do you have any suggestions for books that touches the same subject?

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  "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris. Great reads in the same line of books.
  
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  Pondering the real numbers

  by Deltawave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was sat in the assembly hall yesterday, wondering how many pimo ones like me there was there.

  or even if they don't know ttatt still don't believe it for whatever reason.. i think there must be more of (us) there than we all realise.

  i mean, brothers reaching out is at an all time low, information via the internet is at an all time high and the preaching work has now become a motionless, speechless babysitting of a book shelf advertising a website as someone here pointed out!.

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  I don’t know...my husband gets up frequently, leaves the building even, BUT is a true WT believer. He probably listens to about an hour combined of the assembly day and I think that’s precisely why he hasn’t woken up.
  

  That you know of.
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  Memorial Invitations - Part 2

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just had 2 jw's from my local kh ring my doorbell and then put the invitation through my letterbox.

  absolutely no desire to talk to local jw's who know me, so i declined to answer the door.. on the subject of the invite, the very first sentence deceptively says - "on the night before he died, jesus told his followers to commemorate his death.

  he said, keep doing this in remembrance of me.".

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  Absolutely no desire to talk to local JW's who know me, so I declined to answer the door.
  

  Interesting that what I suggested in your part one didn't seem to be a welcome thought, yet that's exactly what you did.

  
  

  Go figure.
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  How do you deal with people who do not like you?

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi guysin the last year i have started to socialise a lot more.

  namely comedy and a tennis social club.. for a variety of reasons i find socialising tough.

  in my tennis club a couple of women have been extremely rude to me and i have blocked one from my phone and refuse to speak to both.. is my behaviour extreme?paul.

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  For a variety of reasons I find socialising tough. In my tennis club a couple of women have been extremely rude to me and I have blocked one from my phone and refuse to speak to both.

  Is my behaviour extreme?

  No, they are assholes. Learn to socialize 101: You are perfectly fine in the way you are, talk and do things. Don't fall in the trap of growing insecure because of feeling not accepted socially. Those two bitches are big fat nobodies. Move on.
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  Growing a beard

  by Coded Logic in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i've always been currious as to how i would look with a beard so i've finally committed to doing it.

  over the next 30 days i'm going to grow out a full chin to ear beard.. .

  ps:  any suggestions or advice on how to grow a beard would be much appreciated!.

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  Any suggestions or advice on how to grow a beard would be much appreciated!
  

  Yes, I have suggestion. Beards grow on their own. All you have to do is groom it.
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  Contacting old friends

  by Scherlemuch2tired in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm new to this site.

  i've been out for 27 years and was trying to figure out how to get in touch with others that may also be on here from my old congregation.

  it was warrensburg , ny....

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  I'm new to this site. I've been out for 27 years and was trying to figure out how to get in touch with others that may also be on here from my old congregation. It was Warrensburg , NY...
  

  Have you tried Facebook? Seems like a good starting point.