Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the August 2009 Kingdumb Misery. Therein, "Meet the Challenge of Witnessing to Men" comes along. They are whining that there are too many women and not enough men (I wonder if they are hearing about "sisters" not finding mates within the cancer, or just because they need men to run the show because they do not want women running it).
They continue with a couple of stock examples of reaching men. Paul and Silas reaching the jailer is one example. Others include Cornelius and the Ethiopian. (Notably, the article uses "likely" and "may have" to add to the Bible.) Which has absolutely nothing to do with the situation today--I wonder if Osama Obama is ever going to become a witless (and, if he ever did, this country would be in the Second Dark Ages before you can pull out another dollar to bail out Bank of America).
The real trouble is in the next paragraph about contacting more men. First, in the territory I used to work in, most of the men were quite old and haggard (in other words, ugly). Those men would be just about useless, since once they got in, they would already be in poor health and quite broke (hence, nothing to put in the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund boxes). What they want is for people to p*** off householders by working door to door in the evenings, weekends, and holidays. As if they aren't already hounded enough to do holiday witlessing--something tells me that they are really going after people to be out in field circus all evening, all weekend, and all their holidays. Children are going to have a miserable time wasting their whole time off school (and not getting any homework done).
Business territory? I suppose the witlesses want to impede their businesses. And, witlessing to employees (especially the men) is now being pushed--this is sure going to be good in this economy, as most workplaces have religious neutrality as their policy while on the job. I wonder what they are going to do to help out anyone that loses their jobs because of this.
Notably, they further blah-ify things by making sure "sisters" do not get to work on these men. They want other men to do that. What they do not tell is that a person is more likely to be favorably disposed if a member of the opposite sex is doing the work than if other men are--what might have been a friendly discussion will now become a "If all I am going to get is other men, I do not want this religion". And, if unbelieving husbands are contacted by other men (as the paragraph suggests), the unbelieving mate is going to get suspicious that adultery is being set up (and refuse the message for that). And for what? To prevent fornication? With today's acceptance of homosexuality, I doubt that is going to work because you might have one gay "brother" or a gay householder that is just as likely to result in "fornication" as "straight" sex with the opposite sex. Totally ineffective advice.
What they really want is to get more hounders (too many are stepping down because it's too much work and too many rules), as well as to provide the "sisters" with more in-religion marriage opportunities. Too bad most of these are going to be totally unsuitable as marriage partners. Most of the men that come in this way are going to be already married or quite old and haggard (and not likely to make good leaders). In either case, this is going to be a complete fiasco whether or not they get more men in the cancer--a problem that could have been better addressed had they allowed "sisters" equal opportunities to take the lead and relaxed the too-strict rules to allow more to remain in.
Oh well, at least they are going to have that much more incentive to drag me back in so I can take the lead in bringing in more men. I think I would rather go to the dentist and get a root canal or to a tax audit with the IRS.