A few days ago a witness apologist tried to make a case that exjdubs on the internet lessened the effect of apostasy in the congregations. If I understand the basic argument it is that we all get together here and commiserate about the bad ole society instead of the old days where we aired our differences with others in the congregation. Now it’s only the occasional careless/disgruntled witness who gets entrapped by our machinations.
Bull corn, I know I would probably still be plugging away at 5 meetings a week, & service on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday were it not for the internet. Just assuming he was right for a moment, the internet is still a powerful tool chipping away at the tower. The reason is what I call the eBay factor.
EBay is largely self-policed. If you sell a pile of crap, misrepresent your product or don’t conduct yourself in an appropriate manner, you get negative feed back. Would you buy something from an eBayer who had much negative feed back? I know I wouldn’t. The internet is having the same effect on the WTS.
I’m old enough to remember when there was no World Wide Web, but I can’t imagine not being able to Google what ever catches my fancy. I think there are maybe millions of us in the age of the search engine who do the same. The witnesses come to the door, sounds nice, Google them. The eBay factor comes from the fact that the WTS is selling a triple decker sh!t sandwich. They’ve got a ton of negative feedback on the web. Would you buy what they are selling? You are a house holder and you Google the “Jehovah’s Witnesses” the very first page of links are enough to turn most peoples stomach, including sites like ajwrb.com.
Knowledge really is power, and knowledge is becoming abundant in the earth, to steal an old dub phrase.
Let me end with an appropriate clique and I’ll get out of your hair.
Power to the people.
Peace yo!