RE: Well, that was fun!
March 9, 2016 at 4:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2016 at 4:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 9, 2016 at 2:35 pm)Cephus Wrote:(March 9, 2016 at 12:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote: IKR, I always take a Watchtower then shut the door in their face. Hit em where it hurts, the wallet.
It doesn't hurt them personally though, they don't care and there are always plenty of gullible people willing to fork over more money to pay for it. I had one guy who came walking down the street at my parents' house when my father and I were out working on a car. He kept pushing, even after we told him we weren't interested. We told him to go away. He just kept talking. So he insisted on handing me a pamphlet, I tore it up and threw it in the trash can right in front of him. He gave me a dirty look and finally kept walking and my father said I was a little mean. No, some people need to learn to listen. No means no. No does not mean keep going.
It does, actually. You see...The Watchtower Society is a for-profit printing press in all but name and classification (revenues approached near a billion, USD, ten years ago)....that also loans the money to build kingdom halls to individual congregations at interest (and, reportedly, inflated old boyist contractors and prices). They can't go outside the society or on their own, or else they're heretical splinter sects. The guy pounding pavement and his family are on the hook for the debt incurred in building the hall...and they pay for all the materials they hand out. They rely on donations to cover this, and they rely on an influx of converts to spread the debt.
Brilliant..isn't it? It's all legal, ofc. Ethical....I suppose we all have an opinion on that.
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