I have an inside contact who supplies me with some stuff like their Kingdom Ministry mag, and other literary works of art.
Why not just call the publication for the already JW initiated something different to avoid confusion? Not that you would have the answer, it just sort of seems logical that if you have 2 different publications for 2 different audiences they would have 2 different names. I mean it could just be somehting like WT2 or whatever, with a different looking logo.
You’re speaking here about those who know the proof texts and have already been brainwashed.
Are you simply looking for something to complain about JW’s?
2 versions… that’s scarier than going to hell! I cannot believe they are doing this. It’s probably to hide their main beliefs so they don’t scare people away, and so they don’t get sued so often. You know, they talk bad about Catholics all the time on those things, maybe their trying a softer tactic to be more deceitful, and to brainwash their members more with the member-only WT.
Take a look at this website. watchtower.cc/ if you read thru the books, you’ll see why they are not for the regular JW Joe and Jane. Scroll down to publications on the right side, almost to the end of the page and you’ll find a “secret” book for the elders.I always say, if they have nothing to hide, then why hide it??? The Catholic Church has everything available to all. They have nothing to hide when they publish works. In fact, for not hiding them, we get criticized. What happened when the Pope said the Catholic Church contains the whole Truth? What happened when he said the Tridintine Mass can be used if priests want to w/o special permissions?? He got punished by the rest of the world, even some Catholics criticized him but hey, did they ever read the publications? I guess not, otherwise, they would’ve know what they were about…
Oh, there’s plenty about the JW’s to complain about…broken families…such as my step son who won’t speak to his mother anymore because she left the JW’s to become Catholic…because the Elders have told him that unless it’s an issue like a family emergency she must be shunned…Pedophiles protected by the organization while disfellowshipping victims that went public…causing the death of youngsters because of misinterpreting the bible…condemening the UN as the beast while at the same time the Organization held NGO membership status in the UN agreeing to support it’s causes…I can go on and on…but back to the Elder’s Manual…the Elder’s manual is used by the Elders to judge JW’s who are called before a Judicial Committee…yet those being judged do not have access to this book…that’s like putting a man on trial and he can’t access the law. As to going to the WTBTS web site, I do so on occasion…but I’m already quite familiar with the man made doctrine of the Society…you can keep it…or, better yet…why don’t you read the bible for two years WITHOUT the Watchtower publications to interpret it for you…wait…Rutherford said not to do that…never mind.
Steve, Though I don’t think it’s odd that JW’s would have publications for their own adherents only. The points raised by various posters are valid.
broken marriages, misguided people, dead people because of refusal of transfusions and/or transplants… the JWs only know how to hurt their members. They hurt them too much… I’ve seen it in my own family.
You are JW, right? I am Catholic.
