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Is The End of the "Preaching Work" Now In Sight?
by metatron 23 Replies latest jw friends
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MMXIV
If they stopped preaching (and this would not affect their tax exempt status) it would be embraced with open arms by most JW's. It would lift a huge burden as I'm sure many of us felt when we stopping going door to door. Of course there would be some spin on it like we'd be reaching more people using the internet in areas currently unaccessible - masking the real reason that it was saving lots of money / reducing law suits.
Perhaps the dubs would be kept busy by doing more personal study and have to pass exams - more of a scientology education model. The weekly meetings might have an exam and then review format like the old rotten review, but using some software developed by the WBTS (congregations would contribute to this under licence). Thus weekly exams with published scores to show how spiritual people were or humiliate those less able. Of course it would also force regular attendence. Anyone falling below certain figures would require tuition by the better members on the other meeting nights - again all using the carefully controlled publications and source material from WBTS.
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metatron
The "preaching work" could go into a 'nudge nudge, wink, wink' situation. Or perhaps I should amend that: it could become EVEN MORE of a 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' situation, given that most of it in developed countries is already an illusion.
The passive-aggressive nature of Witnesses could become like the final years of the Soviet Union, in which people said, "they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work" - or in this case, 'we pretend to put in time and donate'.
How will their legal staff cope with dozens of different legal systems in different nations, in addition to subtle differences throughout the US in case law as regards volunteers? Eventually, does the siren call of simplicity direct them to stop official support for the "preaching work"?
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stuckinamovement
Great thread Met.
I think that the preaching work is already a farce. People know that a day in service equals a day where you waste time, money and gas. No one is coming into the religion out of the territory. Most of the growth in the developed world comes from witness kids who are encouraged to get baptized. It is a joke. As more people realize that they are on a hamster wheel they will slow down, fake their hours, and eventually quit. (Its already happening)
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