by snare&racket 5 Replies latest jw friends
I assume this has been asked before, but does anyone out there agree that the majority of the Questions from readers were made up?
John from Texas asked " Why are the meetings so awesome?"
Ok so I am using a little of the poetic license ironically used in said articles.. Some of them were laughable however. I was wondering if the Andersons could help put at all with this question.... from a reader :P
but does anyone out there agree that the majority of the Questions from readers were made up?
Since we are sitting here, a long way outside of the WT encampment, I do not see how we can possibly dismiss them as inventions. The mags have a printing of many millions of copies. Among all those people I can believe that they get some pretty wacky questions.
Having said that I am sure that some are summarized into one Q. that they wish to address , and I would not put it past them, just realizing that we are in no position to know....
I always found it a grand coincidence that a reader out there would pre-emt an upcoming issue in the society and it would appear in the Q from R as the issue was arising.
E.g. Stock market, oral sex, saying hello to a DF person... etc etc
Hi Snare:
Hope you enjoy the "Rabbit and Sanke" video in the link posted below!
QUESTIONS FROM READERS
Dear Brothers:
While not receiving endorsement from the "Faithful and Dis-
creet Slave," I proceeded to do research outside the Society's
publications on the strangely carnivorous habits of wild-
life in my region of California. Though I did research back
to the time of Pastor Russell, I could find nothing on
how their belligerent behavior might be reversed in the New
World.
Can you refer me to ANY publications that might
answer this question?
Brother Etude
Dear former Brother Etude:
Thank you for your question. While it is commendable that
you are a thinking person, and a studious one at that, the
true question at issue is, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
Going beyond the admonition of THE CHRIST, however in-
nocent your query may appear, jeopardizes your entry into
that blessed Theocracy, The New World, whose keys the
Governing Body holds.
The only wildlife with which you should be concerned is that
which will surely pick the flesh off your rebellious, dead bones.
In the meantime, you must be dealt with regarding your rap-
idly declining status in your local, now-compromised congre-
gation.
We have your "number," as well as your number. Please expect
a visit from your loving elders within the next 24-hours. We have
made them aware of this dialogue and have entrusted them with
full powers of execution.
Your Loving Brothers (THE CHRIST),
The Governing Body (of your every move)
Without doubt they ignore most of the questions from readers, and just pick what they want to answer, nothing conroversial of course, and if what they want is not in the post bag,they just make it up, who could call them on it ?
I never saw one question I wanted an answer to dealt with in that joke of a column in all the 58 years I was in.
In his books , Ray Franz said that most of the questions were made up by the GB or writing committee. Anyway - it has been dumbed down now as usually it is the "Our Readers Ask" section in the public Watchtower.
Lets face it - how many JWs are going to take the effort to write to the WTBTS & ask " Why Did God Ask Abraham to Sacrifice His Son?" (the question in the Jan 2012 WT ) The subject & the WTBTS slant on it has been covered numerous times already in the societies' publications.
