Ummmmmmmm it really does make you worry for the sanity of these people.

The Watchtower January 15, 2000 You Can Know The Future! (Divination?)

P18 Para 17, the question is: How did certain brothers in El Salvodor use ingenuity to preach to a man who at first did not want to hear the Kingdom message?

17 In El Salvodor, one man tied his vicious dog in front of the door whenever he saw Jehovah's Witnesses nearby. The man would wait for the Witnesses to move on, and then he would bring the dog back into the house. The brothers were never able to speak to the man. So one day they decided to try a different approach. Knowing that the man could hear what they were saying, they decided to preach to the dog. They came to the house, greeted the dog, (and get this), and said how glad they were for the opportunity to speak to it. They talked about the time when there would be a paradise on earth, when no one would be angry-yes, when even the animals would be peaceable. Then they said a polite good-bye to the dog, (oh my giddy aunt), and started down the path. Much to their surprise, the man came out of his house and apologised for never having given the Witnesses the opportunity to speak to him. He accepted the magazines, and a Bible study was started. This man is now our brother-one of the "desirable things"!

Brackets my own.

W-H-A-TTTTTTTTT!!!!!?????

Thankyou WT though for the laugh, yeah right on.

Hahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahhaahaha

Peace and WhatKnot, WhatKnot indeed.

Celtic

So the WT Society is so giddy that malcontents and weirdos like this vicious-dog owner join their ranks?? This is what they've been reduced to.

Their message doesn't have the same appeal to well-adjusted people out there.

Gopher
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I already heard that story in connection with witnessing in Mexico, as well as from the platform at a district assembly in the U.S., well before 2000. Aren't JW's mind-bogglingly inventive?

that sounds familiar...

Wow -
I remember seeing that in the WT..
what a joke!

I wonder how many visits they had before they thought to bring the dog a treat??

And did they count the visits as returns??

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?????

Lydia

expatbrit: Thanks for the laugh. But the truth is the dog went on to become a respected elder.

BTW I do know of many experiences that have become

greatly

exaggerated by the time they get to the "Platform"

my dear, I heard, that in the meantime the dog got baptized and is on his way to be a ministerial servant. the elders of the perrro congregation ordered him to pay attention to the door. when brothers enter he is busy with his tail, when interested persons come, he say a frienly "wuff", exactly like it is demanded.
I am quite sure gthat he makes his way to be an elder and later he may be even the presiding obverseer.
You need not being a cultivated man to be a witness - its enough when you are a mad dog with a long tail. this is neede for when they decide to disfellowship you. they seize you at the tail and throw you out of the kingdoghall
my dear, seldom so laughed. I imagine the dco ( dog circuit overseer), the ddo (dog district overseer) and the dog ethel, where the dogs prepare their bone meals.
funny watchtower, with spit on the christian teachings and the disobedience to the example the Lord Jesus gave.
poor and narrow minded in case of preaching - like false and betraying in case of NGO. real a wicked slave that tortures his brothers.

Oh yes, we heard that one too! Just the type of thing to warm to congregated throng in the final talk of an assembly!

Cheers,
Ozzie

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Anonymous

Well I heard that the dog went on to become a great composer named Bach.

When it happened again, the next dog became Offenbach.

Then it happened to a cat, he became Debussy.

Oh God, I'm rambling....

Englisshman.

Hey! Now you are an outie, you can dance too!