Frequently Asked Questions

From time to time questions are raised about this our online community of Jehovah's Witnesses, and this page addresses some of the most common ones. The current questions that have answers on this page include the following…
1. Is this an official website for Jehovah’s Witnesses?
No it is not. MeekSpaceNG is not endorsed by the Faithful and Discreet Slave nor is it maintained by any Branch Office nor any legal entity in use by Jehovah's Witnesses. The official website for Jehovah’s Witnesses is JW.org and you can find accurate information about our beliefs and practices there.
MeekSpaceNG is an online community for real Jehovah's Witnesses, but it is independently run by a team of brothers and sisters from around the world.
2. When did this site get started?
MeekSpaceNG started as a mere hobby site by a small group of brothers and sisters back in the fall of 2021. Initially, MeekSpaceNG was originally a private, referral only discussion forum for the first couple years but now considered a public community. All registered members have to be Jehovah's Witnesses.
There are only a few discussion forums or social networks out there on the internet that are “safe”, positive, and upbuilding for Jehovah's people, and they are difficult to find. While there are a some email mailing lists for Witnesses, apostates or opposers can also join the list, sit back, and harvest email addresses so they can send out there misleading garbage to you ‘at more convenient time’.
The MeekSpaceNG community is primarily a discussion board for real Jehovah's Witnesses only. Your email address and other personal information are NEVER shown to anyone unless you choose to share that information, and even then we require that you do so through the one-on-one private messaging system and not within the public areas of the community. Anyone abusing the private message system to send harmful information to a single individual will be banned. Anyone posting harmful material within the community will also be banned.
3. Why did this site go from being a rather private and secret site to a quite public one?
For a number of reasons. For one, some members would continually lose the secret link to the members only area. And again, as social networking started to rise in popularity, many individuals would turn to social networks to search out brothers and sisters of like faith, only to constantly run into opposers. We decided to make the In time, the link to the private members only discussion forum, which had remained a secret for several years, somehow got indexed in Google and Bing. community open to others without a referral from a current member, and to make it the go-to social site for real Jehovah's Witnesses on the web.
4. Who can participate in the discussion forum?
Any active publisher whose In time, the link to the private members only discussion forum. Membership is approved by the Staff. All applicants must fill out the registration form completely and honestly. We reserve the right to control membership as we deem fit.
Anybody. God’s Word is public. The accompanying comments are not entire articles, but snippets that, as far as it seems to us, should fall within Fair Use Laws. However, it is worth noting that the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses now also posts the daily text at JW.org
Notice this reference…
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(Sept 2002 KM)
Internet Web Sites: We have an official Internet Web site: www.watchtower.org. This site is adequate to make information available to the public. There is no need for any individual, committee, or congregation to prepare a Web page about Jehovah’s Witnesses. Some have posted the contents of our publications with all scriptures and references given in full and have even offered copies of convention material on a donation basis. Whether profit is involved or not, the practice of reproducing and distributing publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses in an electronic document is a violation of copyright laws. While some may view this as a service to the brothers, it is not approved and should be discontinued.
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Let’s break this down…
“There is no need for any individual, committee, or congregation to prepare a Web page about Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
This is not a web page about the organization known as Jehovah’s Witnesses nor about their beliefs and practices. MeekSpaceNG is an independently run online community for Jehovah's Witnesses. You can think of our site as a niche community, discussion forum, or social network for people who are really Jehovah's Witnesses. The views and opinions expressed by community members are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of MeekSpaceNG or Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole. 
“Some have posted the contents of our publications with all scriptures and references given in full and have even offered copies of convention material on a donation basis.”
We do not host the contents of Watchtower publications here on MeekSpaceNG, nor do we share recordings of conventions or assemblies. While some members may choose to donate financially to assist, there is no incentive or reward to do so, other than knowing "God loves a cheerful giver" - 2 Corinthians 9:7
Whether profit is involved or not, the practice of reproducing and distributing publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses in an electronic document is a violation of copyright laws.
And again, we do not upload entire publications nor do we allow members to copy and paste entire articles on our Jehovah's Witnesses online community. If you are looking for publications of Jehovah's Witnesses, then please visit the official site at JW.org which has several publications available to download for free.
But what about the warnings such as those mentioned in the km 7/07 p. 3 Question Box article entitled What are the dangers of using the Internet to associate with someone we do not know?
Such cautionary statements published by the faithful and discreet slave are valid and necessary, and each person needs to meditate on the contents of those articles and make their own conscience decision. While every effort is made to ensure our MeekSpaceNG is safe for Jehovah's people to associate with one another online, there can be no guarantees that individuals will not post offensive material from time to time, nor can we in any manner that we can completely ensure that registered members are in good standing in their congregations or remain in such good standing beyond the time they registered on this site. We can, however, control content, and take seriously our responsibility to do so. All registered members have the ability to participate in keeping the forum clean.
11. What happened to the recorded talks that forum members were able to download?
Please see the Question Box in the April 2010 Our Kingdom Ministry and read the article Should Jehovah's Witnesses circulate recordings or transcripts of talks?. There is no library index of recorded talks and the forum that used to be dedicated to exchanging recorded talks has been deleted.
12. Is there prepared study material for meetings available on this site that I can download and use?
We do not prepare and upload study material nor make the answers to meeting parts available as a download. Naturally, as Jehovah's people we like to discuss meeting parts and how to apply them in our lives and you will find such discussions taking place in the community.
13. If you were contacted by the Branch to stop the daily text emails, what would you do?
Although we do not see the likelihood of this happening, we would happily discontinue using material from Examining the Scriptures Daily as part of the Daily Text email list.
14. What if the organization started doing daily text emails themselves?
That would be fantastic! Imagine being able to subscribe to it in whatever language you speak, and have it emailed to you at the appropriate time in your time zone wherever you are in the world. With some planning and some programming, they could make it happen. They should!
In the meantime, Jehovah's Witnesses do make Examining the Scriptures Daily available for download in PDF format at JW.org as well as in the JW Library app for Windows, iOS, and Android, as well as on the Watchtower Online Library's landing page at JW.org, not to mention there are other 3rd party Daily Text apps for iPhone's, Android phones and tablets, etc. So we doubt we'll hear anything about our mailing list.
There have been Witness only discussion forums, mailing lists, and message boards, since the mid-90′s, some of which still exist to this day. Brothers and sisters are going to search out other brothers and sisters online and socialize with them, because that is just the way it is. MeekSpaceNG and it’s predecessor has been a safe place to do so for several years. If the discussion forum was taken down, it’s members would just start up another one, and perhaps try to be a little more secretive. What would be the point?
The Branch has gone after sites that individuals put up about our beliefs and practices, or those dedicated to distributing study material, publications, and maintaining large libraries of recorded talks. None of this takes place here at MeekSpaceNG. The Staff works hard to keep the community in harmony with any and all direction received from the Branch.
16. Your answers to these questions bother me, what should I do?
Stop using the Contact form at the bottom of the page to present us with “What if...?” scenarios. If you're not sure about the validity of our Jehovah's Witnesses community, please feel free to look around as a guest. Most areas of MeekSpaceNG are visible to the public. If the existence of our MeekSpaceNG community bothers your conscience, just navigate away.
We perceive our organization’s leadership as loving, friendly, and above all, the most reasonable people on the face of the planet.
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