Take a look at the trends in recent years and you can see a pattern of the "unthinkable" becoming reality, in Witness-land.
Watchtower subscriptions being ended ( after most of 120 years) - done
Bethelites laid off en masse after being told of staying for life - done
The Awake downsized - done
Watchtower exposed as covering up child molestation - continuing
Witnesses publically suing the Society - increasing
And the world is helping too. My dear departed mother didn't know what a homosexual was when she got married and had to
ask my dad ( "they do what!!!??). I thought they were slavering perverts - until a number of them "came out" at work and I realized
they were mostly ordinary guys paying a mortgage like me. Big deal. I thought no woman could manage a department like a man
- until an accountant lady proved that she could do so better than most. Life goes on and we learn...
I can also recall some Rutherford-era relatives of mine discussing his "relationships" with women other than his wife, in hushed
tones, away from us kids. What was spoken in secret now gets splattered all over the world via the mighty - and subversive - internet.
What "unthinkable" thing happens next in Watchtower -land? I would say that their cutbacks are accelerating the process.
Maybe the Awake gets dumped completely. Maybe congregations get dumped by an internal formula involving contributions.
Maybe liability kills the door to door work. Maybe assemblies get derailed by threats. Maybe they beat the flock with talks
that berate them.
Who knows? As they say in the stock market, for us, "the trend is your friend"
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