I clean the windows for an elderly JW couple, who still treat me as a friend and give me a cup of tea each time i go....
They have a spare bedroom and the bed is literally covered with hundreds of old Watchtowers and Awakes. That set me thinking...how many Watchtowers are printed...each issue...around 23 million...ok..there are 6 million active JWs...each one should have a personal copy...so that brings it down to around 17 million.
Then there are around another 10 million at the memorial..(many of them already JWs but inactive)...taking into account a number of families attend...lets say another 4 million get a regular order of mags...down to 13 million.
Most of the Jws have route calls with the mags...they have been going for years..you know they dont read the mags, because they still wish you merry christmas when youve been going for 10 years..and it was just a way of getting another precious hour or two in on the ministry. So if each publisher has just 1 route call...thats another 6 million placed..down to 7 million.
Now how many householders took the magazines from you just to get rid of you? You could tell couldnt you, the way they snatched them out of your hand and shut the door before you'd had chance to get into a decent discussion on the book of Ezekiel with them.
Finally, how many magazines ended up collecting dust in your house...especially those hard to place ones with front cover titles such as 'What Isaiahs prophecy means for you'. We would get around 7 of each and sometimes we would end up with half of them on the bookshelf...so my guess is there are a few million unplaced magazines every issue.
So out of 23 million Watchtowers...i reckon the actual number which are studiously read by members of the public probably amounts to a few thousand.....all that wood..or whatever they are produced from nowadays! What a waste
..but it sure looks good on their resume!
They have a spare bedroom and the bed is literally covered with hundreds of old Watchtowers and Awakes. That set me thinking...how many Watchtowers are printed...each issue...around 23 million...ok..there are 6 million active JWs...each one should have a personal copy...so that brings it down to around 17 million.
Then there are around another 10 million at the memorial..(many of them already JWs but inactive)...taking into account a number of families attend...lets say another 4 million get a regular order of mags...down to 13 million.
Most of the Jws have route calls with the mags...they have been going for years..you know they dont read the mags, because they still wish you merry christmas when youve been going for 10 years..and it was just a way of getting another precious hour or two in on the ministry. So if each publisher has just 1 route call...thats another 6 million placed..down to 7 million.
Now how many householders took the magazines from you just to get rid of you? You could tell couldnt you, the way they snatched them out of your hand and shut the door before you'd had chance to get into a decent discussion on the book of Ezekiel with them.
Finally, how many magazines ended up collecting dust in your house...especially those hard to place ones with front cover titles such as 'What Isaiahs prophecy means for you'. We would get around 7 of each and sometimes we would end up with half of them on the bookshelf...so my guess is there are a few million unplaced magazines every issue.
So out of 23 million Watchtowers...i reckon the actual number which are studiously read by members of the public probably amounts to a few thousand.....all that wood..or whatever they are produced from nowadays! What a waste
