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[Jim Jam]

Also, you seem to imply that generating sympathy is a bad thing. I don't think it's a bad thing

 

In ancient Rome when Christians were being publicly burned alive and thrown to the lions in the circus, people began to admire more and more the courage of Christians in the face of death and wondered why their faith was so strong, and many eventually converted

[Dages]

The more people know about Jehovah's people, the better

[BLEmom]

On 6/3/2026 at 8:57 AM, Godskingdomrules said:

Im not telling Jehovah anything.

Im am just telling logic, please think before you reply!

Sorry that is my humble opinion 

Do you realize it is the GB that approved this?  It’s announced in the congregations.  By criticizing the action, you are essentially criticizing Jehovah as he and Jesus are directing the work. 

[AYMA]

50 minutes ago, Áine said:

2 hours ago, Jim Jam said:

the goal is to generate sympathy from jounalists? 

An extremely strange thing to say!! 
 

Why would we need sympathy??
 

Initially, I somewhat was thinking the same - "Sympathy"?? Then I looked up the word ... even though I felt pretty confident in the meaning and found this:

"Agreement with or support for an opinion or position."

"agreement, consonance, or accord"

So, for me, yes, I agree and can understand better @Jim Jam

Not too strange. Or ... is it? 😆

 

[Tortuga]

35 minutes ago, Dages said:

The more people know about Jehovah's people, the better

Agreed. I assume that some people may be reluctant to visit JW.org because it is a religious site, however the social media sites make some of the information available to them and perhaps they will eventually visit JW.org for more information.

[Michał]

1 hour ago, Áine said:

An extremely strange thing to say!! 
 

Why would we need sympathy??
 

 

Sympathy is a quality we as Christians should express. 

 

Hebrew 10:34 says it’s okay to feel sympathy for Christian’s who are in prison. If we are to feel it, why we should prohibit others from feeling it?

 

I don’t understand. Please explain. 

[Doug]

2 hours ago, carlos said:

 

But think of it this way. 

 

For many years, and currently, The Watchtower is the most widely circulated publication in the world.  This pairs nicely with the Best-Selling Book of all time ~ the Bible.

 

I think it would be fabulous if our social media accounts reached the top-tier.  If the brothers add a few hundred languages, we could even reach number one!!!!

 

Many people have 'heard' of Jehovah's Witnesses.  Image if the social media crowd took a moment to look at our content!!!!   

[bvr]

400K on Instagram and almost 67K on TikTok and a new video as well!

Edited 4 hours ago by bvr

[Barbllm]

I love the newest one, which shows JWs in various jobs including lawyer, doctor, and firefighter. 

 

[Brandon]

I was watching the new JWB with the Gilead, and an experience from a woman in Asia (approx 40 mins in):

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I saw the Bible. I felt like this book might have the answers for life. So I wanted to borrow it from them to read at home. But the religion teacher said I couldn’t take it home…  “My phone probably has the Bible online for free to read, right?” So I typed “Bible” in Google, and I clicked the first link. I scrolled down and saw it said: “Study the Bible free. Free Bible study.” Later, I found out that the site was jw.org.

Notice she first used Google to eventually access our website and was learning things, before she even knew she was on JW.org !

 

So to those doubting this pilot program: let’s never forget how many only find our website using this “secular” web portal / search engine (Google). And let’s also remember that many people don’t even use search engines anymore, they simply receive links through various alternative “portals” like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, etc.

 

certainly we wouldn’t be bothered to find out someone used Google to reach our website. Let’s not be bothered if they use social portals to reach it too.

 

edit: almost missed another important point. Transcript: “so I joined social media groups that discussed changing religions.” She did that before using Google. Really drives the point home!

Edited 57 minutes ago by Brandon