Stilla: You say you only “place” magasines...ok, how? Just leave them at the door, when there`s noone home ? I bet you do, you ring that doorbell and when noone opens, you just sigh in relief that you don`t have to go thru the whole introduction and your own little script “have you ever wondered what God has in store for humanity as a whole? Then let me show you this little pamphlet...God has promised us that sometime in the future blah blah blah”, so you can just drop off the mag at the doorstep and walk on (hope you have a sense of humour about this, I don`t mean to be mocking you or anything, we`ve all been there ). But consider this: What if someone picks up that magazine and actually reads it? And lets say this person is searching, naive, in a difficult situation, a desperate state, newly divorced, looking for a meaning in life (this is really a description of my mother when she found “the truth”), and then, the next time some unsuspecting “brother” rings her doorbell, she not only asks him in, she wants to have a Bible study and all, and whooops, 6 months later this person is a baptised published. And then she meets a new man, a faithful and devoted young pioneer/MS, and they have children who have their entire childhoods ruined by this idiotic religion (along with the womans children from her first marriage, and of course, the father of these children has to go thru hell to even just see his kids, and when he occasionally gets to see them, she has filled them with some paranoid crap about him being one of “Satans world” and that he is going to be destroyed in Armageddon, etc...you know how fanatic those that “find the truth” in adult age can be). See where I`m going? The point is: Every little (although innocent-looking enough) WT and Awake are really small drops of venom. Or small drops of ...viruses. And they have the potential to “open up the door” for even more venom, more viruses (in fact, the Awakes are a bit like HIV, I think). They have, each and every little magazine, the potential to cause tremendous amounts of harm and pain, in that they are able to initiate a chain reaction of events. So can I make a suggestion? The mags are allready paid for, and they`re free at the doors, right? So why “place them” at all? Make sure you go out alone. Drop the mags in the nearest dumpster, then go to a cafè and enjoy yourself with a good book, a sandwich and some cocoa. If you, occasionally have to go out with a very “faithful brother”, perhaps you should make not of the houses where they actually accept the magazines, and then go back to do some anti-witnessing later on? The point is (and as much as I hate to be “giving a speech” or raising a finger of morality or whatever, I have to say this): Every little “placed mag” is something that can have consequenses, and the consequenses lay on the shoulders of the person who placed them. Sorry if this adds to the burdens you are allready carrying, by being trapped in “the truth”.
Those magazines should be used for what they were always meant for: wrapping up fish (only works with smaller fish, such as trout, they`re to small for, oh, say a big old cod), defrosting shrimps (frosen shrimps defrosts three times as fast when laid on a paper of the same kind as WTs, Awakes and newspapers), and for lighting up in the owen with. There might also be some other practical uses for them that I don`t know of, but they should certainly not be read by anyone.
Well I suppose you have a point here Hellrider. But what choice do I have? If I start missing service then the Gestapo will soon be knocking on my door. Very rarely do I actually place magazines. Like I mentioned later they usually end up in the trash at the end of each month. As far as the ones I do place-well I never make "return visits" and if by some random chance the person seeks out interest to the point of tracking down the elders-well its out of my hands by then..
I like to think of it as....sect survival warfare.