Does Anyone Really Believe They Can Knock Out The Watchtower??? (page 2)

All the hard liners are dead like my grandmother....Then comes my mother's generation she is 73. Most of them are almost gone. There are no new converts staying in for their entire lifetime. All the children produced from my mother's time are OUT.

It's going to get harder and harder to keep a "Flock". They are slowly selling off realestate to keep up. Once my mom's generation is dead there will be no steady estates funding this crapola.

I predict it will take another 50 years, but this sect will be almost gone by then. And so will I.

r.

Zico

It will be many, many years before this Organisation dies, probably several decades, but it WILL die eventually.

Outaservice

It's not dead yet, but it is starting to get sick!

Outaservice (who's taken at least one brick out of the tower)

trevor

Yes, his name is Jesus.

Oh dear! I think your worse fears have been realized Minimus. If Jesus is the only threat then the Watchtower Society are home and away. An organisation this size can change and adapt. The smaller it becomes the more it can play on the specialness of being a surviving member with 'the love of the greater number cooling off, a clear sign that the end is just around the corner. There will always be needy people who cling to any cult that offers a chance to someone to be more than they really are as long as they have enough faith.

ozziepost

Min:

I often agree with you, even when you're 'left field', and I follow your sentiments here. Personally, I don't think we can knock 'em out and the longer it goes that we have left them behind , the more they are irrelevant to our lives. True, they continue to do bastard things to us through our family but even so, Mrs Ozzie and I have moved on with our lives and found a kind of peace. In fact, our lives are so busy now both here downunder and elsewhere in the world that we find it hard to give them a moment's thought.

However, and this is a big however, we still go out of our way to give support and advice to those who come our way seeking some answers to the works of the borg that's arisen in their lives. We also have conducted seminars far and wide alerting people to the evils of such a dangerous cult.

Still, we have to do more with what is left of our lives and try and salvage something - we can't let the borg destroy the whole of our lives.

OK, that's my take.

Greetings and peace to all.

Ozzie

moshe

Well said, Ozzie! alt

willyloman

I predict it will take another 50 years, but this sect will be almost gone by then.

This reminds me of a newspaper article on the Shakers, a nearly defunct religious group on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. The article said what killed them off was the restriction that they only marry other Shakers. In modern times, as their numbers shrank, the young people married outside the faith. Soon, all that was left were a small group of spinsters with no one to marry. Now there were just a handful of elderly women, too old to marry!

For them, the end was near. I'm sure that 200 years ago, some wag said they were "the fastest growing religion in these parts."

stevenyc

To be honest, I don't really care if they go away or don't. They are a small American protestant / fundamentalist cult, with a broken publishing business. There are quite a few out there. For me, I will be satisfied when they drop the blood issue, so followers don't die needlessly. And, most importantly, they need to drop the two witness rule and report ALL suspected abuse cases to the authorities. Until they do these two things, I'll do my best to encourage them. Once they're gone, I think I'll finally rest.

just my 2 cents.

steve

BCZAR2ME

Acts 5:38, 39

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Does Anyone Really Believe They Can Knock Out The Watchtower???

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