Farthead:
I see you are as stupid and ignorant as ever, but now even unable to understand simple arithmetic, basic WTS history, and the "big picture".
Anyone with even a moron's understanding of WTS history appreciates that the WTS's growth has historically resulted from repeatedly making apocalyptic predictions of Armageddon, bolstered by world events which "seem" to be fulfilling Biblical prophecy.
The WTS originated from the Millerite movement of the 1830s/40s, which itself made a series of failed apocalyptic predictions for Fall 1843, Spring 1844, and finally Fall 1844. After the movement broke up, and the smaller Advent Christian groups were facing extinction in the 1860s, they started another series of apocalyptic predictions for Fall 1873, Spring 1874, and finally Fall 1874.
Russell was attracted to the Adventist movement by such predictions in 1868/9, but it is uncertain how much he participated in such predictions until his documented association with Barbour in 1876, who by that time was now re-predicting things to happen in Spring 1878. After 1878's predictions failed, and Russell and Barbour split, Russell re-predicted events to occur in Fall 1881.
After that prediction failed, Russell wised up and chose a date further in the horizon, 1914, thus gving himself more breathing room prior to failure, and allowing him to use the events of the Industrial Revolution to point to Bible prophecies. However, the 1914 date was supposed to be a "finale", with "lead-up" events supposedly beginning around 1907-08. When those predicted lead-in events failed to materialize, Russell started hedging on the 1914 "finale", changing such to 1915 as 1914 approached.
Of course, WW1 pulled Russell's gonads out of the fire, and allowed Rutherford to re-predict 1925 as the new "finale" date, with lead-in dates such as 1919 and 1920 seeing the fall of world religions and world governments, respectively.
When those dates came and went without any fulfillment, Rutherford stretched his 1925 predictions into the 1930s as "any time now" predictions, when he too was rescued by WW2, which allowed the "any time now" predictions to continue.
After WW2 failed to turn into the BigA, the world entered the Cold War Era, bolstered by the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as regional conflicts all over the globe, including the Middle East. All fed the WTS's apocalyptic predictions, which festered into Franz's next date-setting for 1975. Even since then, there have been undercurrents pointing to 1984, 1994, and then the Millenium.
Starting with only a small handful of friends and relatives in the 1860s, the Org has grown to around 14 million disciples with varying degrees of beliefs.
Yes, the series of failed apocalyptic predictions always resulted in people leaving the Org, but the math speaks for itself. Over the long-term, even failed predictions have resulted in positive growth for the WTS.
It is a formula for success which will inevitably be repeated.
I'm surprised that someone who "fancies" himself the Savior of "hundreds" of xjws from the Org is so short-sighted. Maybe the word "fantasy" is more appropriate.