How can I subscribe to Awake! and Watchtower without being a JW?

Question

It used to be, in the 80's, that I simply mailed a check and subscribed via mial to both of their magazines. Now I can't and I don't want to study with them, or attend kingdom hall or have to pick them up at the kindgom hall. I enjoyed reading these two magazines although I have no desire to be a JW.

zen, your answer had me laughing!

I can't ask anyone to bring them to me because I tried it and they cannot simply deliver to me without attempting to preach.

It really is a shame as there are many I know who do enjoy their magazines but we can't read them anymore as we have to put up with the people which is unacceptable.

Answer 1

Most of these answers are correct. If you have a problem getting them delivered to you , write to the society and they will request someone bring them to you.
As was stated, the society no longer mails them to anyone.
We must pick them up at the literature counter for all purposes, and if they aren't picked up on a timely basis, they give the "extras" to the Pioneers.

I have also heard it said their is a means coming to down load them each month to your computer......You might ask about this "new: feature"

Answer 2

You can't subscribe any longer. Mail subscriptions were halted at least five years ago. However, many witnesses have what we call "magazine routes". So if you want the magazines just ask a local witness to bring them by for you.

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Adding - Obviously the material in the magazines is very important to you. Have you told them you do not wish to study at this time? You should make this plain. But, does it really hurt to have a 5 minute conversation? Just a thought. In the alternative, while the SOCIETY does not provide subscriptions, maybe you can ask the friends that bring them to you to MAIL them to you instead or as someone suggested slip them under your door. Let them know you'll contact them with any questions.

Answer 3

As a general rule, we no longer mail subscriptions directly to houses. It is much more cost effective to mail several to 1 location. You may simply request the magazines to read from the next Witness you see.

There are many magazines that can be read, simply because they are nice.

Ultimately you have to decide which means more, getting the magazine about, among other things, the Bible and my faith, or not talking to any of us about the Bible or our faith.

Answer 4

Beginning January 1, 2008, both The Watchtower and Awake! magazines will be available for subscription through iTunes. Those who do not use iTunes or who do not wish to subscribe will be able to download the audio of each issue in either MP3 or AAC format from:
http://jw.org

Jehovah's Witnesses have always taken advantage of the latest technology to further their ministry.

Between 1910 and 1914, Jehovah's Witnesses incrementally released a monumental presentation of color pictures, moving pictures, and sound entitled "Photodrama of Creation" (excerpts are available on YouTube and other places). It seems remarkable to recognize that this film is nearly a century old, in color with synchronized sound!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0162536/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS0EttWDEWM

Before and after that, Jehovah's Witnesses were already experimenting with networks of telephone tie-ins and radio broadcasts. Even in those early years of radio and telephone, those early Witnesses sometimes presented simultaneous live audio of a bible discourse to perhaps of a million listeners.

By the 1920s and 1930s, Jehovah's Witnesses designed and manufactured portable record players which their ministers carried from door to door. The minister could play record albums of bible discourses for householders in rural areas where transportation was still mostly by walking and horse. Of course, the recorded discourse was followed up by an offer of bible-based literature and a continuing personal discussion.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Jehovah's Witnesses actually designed, built, and programmed their own custom computers to perform phototypesetting in dozens of different language (no commercial system had yet been developed, and no computer platform had yet emerged as a clear standard). In the late 1980s, they reprogrammed this software to run on standard high-end PC computers, allowing quality translation work to be performed even by a remote missionary on a laptop, perhaps miles from air conditioning or a power grid. By 2007, these technology innovations enable Jehovah's Witnesses to release The Watchtower simultaneously in 145 languages (another dozen or so languages are not simultaneous).

While there were other early film releases, the 1990s saw a batch of new video and DVD releases by Jehovah's Witnesses. Soon, many short videos were made available on the official websites of Jehovah's Witnesses (a selection are listed at the end of this answer).

Jehovah's Witnesses will continue to utilize whatever technologies seem appropriate to better educate their adherents, students, and the public about issues related to true Christianity and the bible. What better choice of print, sound, video, and internet virtual "association" than that produced by the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses?

(1 Corinthians 15:33) Do not be misled. Bad associations spoil useful habits.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/ministry.htm

Making Friends
http://watchtower.org/e/vcfe/

Bible's Power
http://watchtower.org/e/vcpf/
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcpf_e.htm

Kingdom Hall Construction
http://jw-media.org/vnr/4153632232/222542.htm

Africa Relief
http://jw-media.org/vnr/4382612162/214331.htm

U.S.Supreme Court
http://jw-media.org/vnr/7381722181/814323.htm

Nazi
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcfi_e.htm

Soviet Union
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcut_e.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/4131637241/738163.htm

Korea
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/618273.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/62734221.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/22812301.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/22812302.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/22812303.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/234263e.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/529132e.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/5263723221/733282e.htm

Armenia
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2172613262/236372.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2172613262/813273.htm

Greece
http://jw-media.org/vnr/4172323223/428262.htm

Public Service Announcements
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/psa1_e.htm
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/psa2_e.htm
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/psa3_e.htm
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/psa4_e.htm

Beliefs-Disfellowshipping
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2122827332/311131.htm

Blood
http://watchtower.org/e/vcnb/
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcnb_e.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/vcnr/
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcnr_e.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/vcae/
http://jw-media.org/edu_videos/vcae_e.htm
http://jw-media.org/vnr/2253636331/734353.htm

Answer 5

we don't get watchtowers and awakes in the mail anymore. you would have to get a Jehovah Witness to bring them to you. call your local kingdom hall and ask someone to bring them to you. see the hate from people like zen. she knows nothing about us and tells her children to lie

Answer 6

being a jehovah's witness and reading watchtowers are all together..y dont you want to be one?my grandmother is one,and i dont think i want to be one until im around 60,but i think its a privelegde to be.you get free ones at the kingdom hall.all u have to do is ask,they are so generous and lovely people.

Answer 7

I see very one agrees they are free and most people on the planet have seen one.

Answer 8

if you want the magazines but don't want us to visit just tell the friends who bring them to you just to leave them at your door...I'm sure they will honor your request

Answer 9

Things have changed.

Now all you have to do is ask the one that will come to your door to bring you the issues regularly.

Free of charge.

Answer 10

Try looking at http://www.watchtower.org