Anti-JW billboard going up in Texas (page 3)

Village Idiot

Might the Watchtower have something to do with the misdirection of the url?

truthseekeriam

I think it's a great idea!

I remember reading that it will go up where it can be seen from the freeway that the witnesses use to get to their assembly during the time frame of the assembly.

It's obviously meant to target the witnesses but I certainly think the average parent jw or not would take a second look at that billboard.

Simon

Might the Watchtower have something to do with the misdirection of the url?

Here's why I very much doubt it:

It risks turning an incredibly minor issue into a more news-attention grabbing one. I don't think they would ever risk doing something so stupid and likely to be discovered for such little benefit.

Iown Mylife

I like the idea and I do think it would jolt people like me, or the me I was before TTATT.

My husband and I were both age 33 when we got baptised, after we had been studying for a year. Six years later I found out that my father, arrested for child sexual assault on teenaged boys, had been that kind of criminal for many years, along with child pornography. First I went to bed and cried for three days, I was so shocked and devastated.

Then I began telling all my friends what had happened. I could not understand why nobody would listen to me! Nobody would let me tell the details, they wanted me to shut up! Ok, the elders that had always been our friends, THEY wouldn't even let me tell the story to them!

My husband said, Well maybe they're afraid you'll lose your friends if people know about your father. So I quit trying to talk about it except to my (worldly) x mother in law. She wanted to know and wanted to hear everything. We found out what the hell was wrong with her son, my ex, that's for sure!

So then, it was after that when the whole Silent Lambs started and I began to be so aware of pedophiles and how they live. Aware of how a religion like jw could help them evade detection.

There are so many people picking up on prevalence of child sexual abuse. Those kinds of people will notice a big ol' billboard and ask questions.

Marina

Village Idiot

Simon,

"Here's why I very much doubt it:"

"It risks turning an incredibly minor issue into a more news-attention grabbing one. I don't think they would ever risk doing something so stupid and likely to be discovered for such little benefit."

They would probably think that they would not be tracked down and discovered. While I don't know much about computers and the Internet I assume that such discovery would be difficult.

paulmolark

When people in Texas see a billboard with the words pedophile written in red they will probably want to know what the hell its about.

Pete Zahut

JW's will spin this at the next convention by saying that as a result of what was intended to be persecution by Satan's Apostates, many new studies were started with those inquiring about the billboard.

We are like Dandelions, Brothers and Sisters. If you kick us, we spread to the wind and grow even more (((clap clap clap...applause....applause))) No proof of any of it being true will be given, but everyone gets a warm fuzzy feeling and are sure to pass by the contribution box on the way out.

Calebs Airplane

Love it...

sunny23

do agree, theirs is directed more towards active JW's. I think it should look more like this so that non-jw's know who its addressed to and will be able to bring the topic up at the door when they come knocking:

Oh and here is the link to their final approved draft and fund page:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ttatt-billboard-outside-belton-tx-jw-conventions

sunny23

A billboard message needs to be clear and focused and it just seems to vague. It's trying to make a claim without really saying anything concrete - almost the definition of a smear campaign.

If you had to make a billboard what would yours say? Its hard to fit in the reasons why 1914 is absurd, or blood transfusions are anti-biblical. It needs to be short, big lettered, provocative and intriguing. This makes it difficult to be so concrete, hence the website link, which I agree should not have a hyphen and be more memorable.

Anti-JW billboard going up in Texas

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