Library now cleared out (page 3)

LongHairGal

This isn’t anything new. They have been getting rid of certain publications and books in Kingdom Hall libraries over the years.. I figured that most of what was there was a showcase of sorts with nobody really reading it - but I thought they would be proud of it at least.

Back in the day I donated a very old book that a lady in the neighborhood gave me. One day I looked and presto it disappeared along with something else I had donated.

The Witness religion is completely rewriting and sanitizing their history IMO. It wants NO evidence of anything said or taught in the past.

dozy

KH libraries are a bit of a waste of time really - its basically the "spare room" in the KH that elders meet in or drag people in for counsel. I have never known anyone to pull a book out to use for research ( other than "borrow" a song book or publication they had forgotten for a meeting. ) It's just a lot of rubbish books gathering dust on shelves giving a kind of pseudo scholarly impression - pointless , especially nowadays with the dumbed down Org mainly functioning on videos and all the newer publications available online.

ToesUp

They have to get all the info that is making them look like false prophets out of the JW's hands.

Giordano

It's pretty much all on the internet so you can see and read it there.

Here's a great site if your interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

It's a reasonably accurate body of work backed up with 220 citations.

Of interest is a graphic of the three major schisms that hit the WTBTS that happen in 1909, 1916-1919 and 1928-1931.

There is an interesting back history on Russell and how he was greatly influenced by the Adventist Movement and it's beliefs. A quick read indicates that Russell used a lot of their theology.

john.prestor

Dozy, I think you're right about that: a Kingdom Hall library is an icon or a symbol, like the stained-glass windows you might find in a Catholic church. I never saw anyone in one either, they don't seem to play a practical function.

nowwhat?

So let me get this straight . in countries where the work was banned the brothers risked their lives smuggling in and in possession for having these books- are now mere refuse to be scrapped?!

blondie

I actually used the library for older publications my family did not have. The problem was you could not take it out of the library and there was no printer. A couple in our congregation donated a computer that could use the current WOL and also make copies of the required pages in the older publications. Then activity increased since many did not have access to a computer at home. Too bad they didn't offer them to others in the congregation for their library which 2 congregations did in this area. I used to see there were 2 or more sets/copies of older publications and I would take a duplicate home. I found that few jws had a home library or would use it. Many jws just go to an elder anyway rather than do research. I wonder how many jws actually read books of any kind, or newspapers, etc. I knew male jws that would read the sports page but few people subscribe to newspapers depending on news on tv/internet. Too bad, I noticed that a full set of the Studies in the Scriptures online goes for $300 or more.

Gorbatchov

When a new official video was released about the history of wts, the convention speaker told us the remarkable words: “Why a new video when we already have the Proclamers book? Because jw’s are not readers of thick books, that’s why.”.

G.

MeanMrMustard

During a deep clean of the local KH, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.

*sigh* ... all that wasted toilette paper...

neat blue dog

It just happened at my Hall within the last few months. No announcement. Dozens of books just gone one day.

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