JW Survey Idea

by dontplaceliterature 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  dontplaceliterature

  I was thinking on my way home from work today how it would be possible to distribute a link for cedars' survey without putting myself in a position to be "outed" as an apostate. I wonder if anyone in this community has the tech-skills to spam Jehovah's Witness e-mail addresses with a link to it. I'm not sure if this is ethically sound, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. You would need to include something in the subject line that referred to "The Organization" or "The Brothers", etc. in order to get someone to actually open it. There should be some brief message as to the intent of the survey, that would not totally freak every single person out that reads it.

  We could compile a list of Jehovah's Witness e-mail addresses by setting up an anonymous submission database on a website.

  I'm not sure if anyone has considered this or not, already. Cedars can testify that I have doubted the long term purpose/meaningfulness of the survey. This could be a way to get it into more hands, and stir up some gossip about it among the congregations. Perhaps it would even drive a Local Needs talk, or a mention at a Circuit Assembly.

  Thoughts?
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  Mickey mouse

  Anonymous harvested a lot of emai addresses last year.
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  cedars

  Hi dontplaceliterature - I appreciate your support and sincere efforts to accelerate the publicity of the survey. However, I would appreciate keeping everything "above board", including the methods through which the survey is publicized. You have to remember that the whole premise of the survey relies upon upholding a degree of legitimacy in the data and how it is gathered. I will be compiling a written report on the results of the 2011 survey at the end of December, and it would be nice to say that the survey was publicized organically and not through any nefarious means. I personally believe that word of mouth will be enough to boost awareness of survey, if not in the short term then most definitely in the long term. Thanks anyway though, I always appreciate people's ideas about the survey - but I'd rather avoid anything that could give people cause to discredit or criticize the survey or our motives in any way.
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  dontplaceliterature

  I have sincere doubts about the possibility for this to spread to anyone who is the typical active Jehovah's Witness (and those are the only people the Governing Body is interested in).

  Even as a "Conscious Class" member, there is no way in hell I would tell a soul in my congregation about that survey, even though I would like to. The risk of being connected to "apostates" is too great.

  I hope it finds its way, but I remain skeptical that it will - not without some sort of neutral or anonymous distribution.
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  cedars

  I completely understand your scepticism. I understand that normal JWs need to have their views heard, and not just those "awakened" ones who regularly trawl these sites anyway. However, I feel there WILL be a snowball effect, albeit a slow one. Everything needs to have a beginning, and I am happy to be patient and wait for the survey to grow in notoriety among those with their "finger on the pulse" within the Borg. It may take a while, but I've got all the time in the world. You also need to remember that if the media DO pick it up, and find novelty in the survey when the results are published, then normal Witnesses won't be able to help but hear of it - and then word of mouth will REALLY spread. The icing on the cake would be a letter to all congregations telling them not to do the survey. That's the moment that I dream about!

  Give it time!

  Cedars