The other thing that was really scary is the fact that a lot of those people making time writing letters were borderline illiterate...no writing skills, concept of grammar, etc.....can only imagine what some of those letters were like...
Obituary column was only one of the methods!
by Atlantis 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
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tiki:
Your right! Cemetery preaching is about as low as a JW can go to show disrespect.
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1983 Yearbook/Portugal/pg.145
The letter was written by a brother born in the Azores, John Perry, a member of the Brooklyn Bethel family. He suggested that if she did not possess a Bible she should buy one and read the references he cited, dealing with the resurrection hope and God’s promise of a righteous New Order. Through John Perry, the Society began mailing small packages of books and booklets to Delmira, encouraging her to distribute them free of charge. She began doing so right away. Her main territory was the cemetery, since that was where she herself began thinking about God. Her friends and neighbors thought that she had lost her mind because of the death of her son. All alone, several times a week, she would go to the cemetery endeavoring to talk to bereaved ones about the hope of the resurrection. Her newly acquired reputation as “the crazy woman” did not dampen her zeal for preaching the good news, and the more she preached the stronger her faith grew.
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carla
"...Her main territory was the cemetery.." -
Says it all doesn't it?
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Betheliesalot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zpZMWwCJOY
This thread reminds me of the funny scenes in "Paper Moon" with tatum oneal, where they go around the country reading obituaries and selling them bibles that their recently departed ordered for them. This movie depicts the vulnerable people are right after a death and how people (or WT) take advantage of them.
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Betheliesalot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJJbZe4TWM
This movie had so many scams in it , i wonder if it was written by a JW, especially during the great depression.
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Atlantis
Yep! ( We will probably find references to the movie clip hidden somewhere in the archive notes for the Revelation Book! )
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