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Replying to post 4 by JehovahsWitness]
I really couldn't say
Not really expecting you to come up with a solid answer, just hoping to get clarification on something that was bugging me.
maybe its for sale; we are going through major reorganization at the moment with new models of halls to be used and maximization of use so maybe its something to do with that... don't know any more than you do on that.
Could be that...but for eight years? I'll restrict the time frame to that, because that is when I moved out of my parent's, and in all that time, I cannot recall a single door knocker who was religious in some way.
If you are extremely curious you could just look up the times of the actual meetings in that particular hall HERE and then check out movements 20 mins before the start time.
I might have already done that inadvertently. The first Hall that I lived near to, that was down the street and around a corner (two minutes walk at most), I walked by that every time I went to the local chipper (fast food takeaway, if you don't recognise the term) and I went there
a lot. Best curry chips I ever had...
sheds a single tear.
I don't know where you are
Which is why I intentionally keep it vague.
but where I am in France
To be honest...I NEVER would have guessed that about you. I always thought you were in the US.
As for this, its unlikely that knocking on doors is illegal in Dublin (Ireland?)
Nope. Pretty confident it's not illegal here, and yes, Ireland.
but if like me you live in a secure buiding access is limited and you might not get a personal visit that way (in my building for example there are two coded doors before one can access the appartments).
I have to admit that for five years of the twenty eight I've spent on this rock, I did indeed live in such an apartment and those five years are part of the eight I talked about above. Even if we deduct those five, that still leaves me with three years where not once did anyone JW knock on my door (or neighbours for that matter).
In any case we still go from door to door where possible and all territories are worked systematically but there are only 8 million of us on the planet (and not all of us can spend much time going from door to door due to health, age or infirmaties, family responsibilities etc) so on a planet of 7 and a half BILLION you do the math.
I vaguely recall a disagreement I had with you about something regarding this? You said something like the JWs have spread their message to all nations and you use that as a metric for which religion is the true one, and I responded by saying something similar to what you have just said, that a handful of JWs living in a given nation do not count as that nation having had the JW message being given to it.
I can't link to it (since I don't recall exactly what was said, so don't know what to search for), so take what I just said with a grain of salt if you will, but I'm pretty darn sure of it...
Regarding literature stands, if there is a cart that means there is at least one group of Witnesses that speak that language. "A group" is smaller than a congregation and might be comprised of only a dozen or so people.
Indeed.
If you are in Dublin (Ireland) I think it is actually quite an international city so my guess is there are indeed spanish speaking witnesses
I'm not in Dublin right this moment, but I can get to it quite easily. That photo is taken outside a local monument, the General Post Office or GPO.
Basically, whenever I pass JWs either outside the GPO or on my local main street, it's never more than a handful. As in, if I used my fingers to count them, I'd have some fingers left over. They're pretty tame and quiet. They just stand there, sometimes with the leaflets in hand, but they don't actually speak to anyone of their own accord. Anytime I've seen them talking with anyone, it's always the other person who initiates the conversation.
And yes, Dublin is indeed international, and yes, Spanish is a popular language. Where I live, there is a sizeable Spanish student group I see on the bus almost every day commuting.
The thought that came to my mind regarding the Spanish is that is the first language on the stand. A stand that is used in a nation where, in order of popularity, the most popular languages are English, Irish and Polish.
Any government documentation is in English and Irish, for example (and people like myself say it should also be in Polish, given our sizeable Polish speaking population)...but there quite simply is no demand for Spanish material. Unless one is studying it in school or already speaks it (either coming from Spain or from Latin America), no-one speaks or demands Spanish material.
A group might cover a very large area, for example we have a group associated with our congregation that speak Pevé (sp?) its an African language. I've never heard of it, but the point is its the only group in Paris, or maybe Northern France I forget, so when they have their meetings people come from miles away. The point is that there may not be many that speak that language but there are probably some.
Shrugs. Just find it odd that Spanish is first and top on the stand. Unless maybe it was given by American JWs (I do hear that English and Spanish are official government languages there).
Hope my answer helps a little,
Regards,
JW
Thanks. It does.
Toodle-oo.
