2007-01-13 05:24:07 · 11 answers · asked by revdauphinee 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First of all, sugar, it's JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES. Secondly, they are called Kingdom Halls. And thirdly, they do sometimes have windows, but the ones that were NOT built with windows had to do more with cost and convenience than secrecy or some evil, ulterior motive. Find out from Witnesses themselves and see one for YOURself by visiting one. Contact your local Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses,and they will happily show you around a Kingdom Hall. Don't believe everything every unknowledgable idiot tells you... get things straight from the horses mouth if you want to know how a horse neighs!! LOL
2007-01-13 08:36:50 · answer #1 · answered by themom 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Reading some of the comments before leaving my own was interesting to say the least.
Basically, it is because of cost. Since there is no "preacher" to fleece the flocks of their hard earned money, some congregations choose to keep the cost of construction down by not having windows. Also, there are vandelism issues to deal with as our message of God's Kingdom is not popular with some.
However, there are many Kingdom Halls that do have windows.
One was just built in the Northern part of South Carolina (where I attend) that has windows all over, to include the two huge glass doors in front of the building.
If you want to find some organization that really DOESN"T have window why don't you start with the local Masonic Lodge? They are a secret society..............the Witnesses are none of the sort.
2007-01-13 05:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Did you notice some of the responses you got? "...because they are all freaks . . . so no one can witness their sodomy . . ."
One person responded, accurately and reasonably, that sometimes it is because having no windows keeps the costs down and sometimes it is because of vandalism. I find it interesting that many who profess to be Christians throw stones - figurative and otherwise. Sometimes halls do not have windows because of the physical stones many people throw.
In truth, however, as the person from the Carolinas explained, many halls do have windows.
Hannah J Paul
2007-01-13 06:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you stop and think about it not to many worship places have windows(that you can see through anyway). I think that it is more of a privacy thing and they don't want people to be distracted from the service by what is going on outside.
2007-01-13 05:32:55 · answer #4 · answered by unicornfarie1 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Windows
This is getting old. The Kingdom Halls are fully open for anyone to see, if they didn't fear going in and learning something they didn't know before.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnK4uht_tLMywJG1ueHpj0cjzKIX?qid=20061111084312AARdBNI
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AudOKWTYUKLPdisXenm6UoYjzKIX?qid=20061205170543AAFePB1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvNwLQ3N1xqWPjSvGC0nfREjzKIX?qid=20060917014055AAtjape
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmInsrdNUFK.aQom3NBnEA8jzKIX?qid=20060729104148AAkB9g7
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlajJaU64FfQkxz47HMzj94jzKIX?qid=20060906203738AAFDxNf
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmA0CkEkf40qPdOf_OKhCJnsy6IX?qid=20061230115249AAswc1r&show=7#profile-info-fc95d4e132f682e377e5aec43e0a715daa
And 23 more in the last six months. If you want to know, go there during a meeting and look. Any time there are cars in the lot there should be a meeting going on. Unless you are afraid.
Here's a few on fast builds of Kingdom Halls.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/06/01/Hernando/Quick_build_Kingdom_H.shtml
http://www.homernews.com/stories/080703/new_080703new004001.shtml
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/cultures/lo072203s4.shtml
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17395884&BRD=1719&PAG=461&dept_id=25271&rfi=6
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/5054.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/78576_kingdom15.shtml
http://www.topix.net/content/trb/3614417795223991767004363660821780854175?threadid=TS4QC0NVC2USONF7
http://www.the-wall-paper.net/khalls/news.asp?article=usa/ri
http://wfmz.com.ldh0105.fast.net/cgi-bin/tt.cgi?action=viewstory&storyid=18574
2007-01-13 06:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was just going to ask this :) lol
thanks for geting me the answer.
2007-01-13 05:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of them do.
2007-01-13 05:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do prison cells not have windows? They don't want you getting a good look at what you shouldn't have, but want...
2007-01-13 05:38:04 · answer #8 · answered by Maxiebedeeps 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
They don't need windows. They're all blinde.
2007-01-13 05:30:39 · answer #9 · answered by donewiththismess 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
because they are too busy knocking on our doors. trying to sell their faith. so they do not have enough time to install windows XP
2007-01-13 05:32:01 · answer #10 · answered by pandora123 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋