Here is an organization that is trying to keep a blameless appearance no matter what. They will exploit the members to this end, just like they exploit the members to get the message spread and their Kingdumb Hells built.
Notable is that you can never do enough. If you are studying, they ramp up the participation. First, it's one hour a week for the study. Then go to one meeting a week plus the study. Then three meetings (here I defind a meeting as one trip. Actually two of them are double meetings; hence the five meetings in three trips) plus the study. Then doing those dreaded talks, which will be fairly easy at first but will get much harder as time goes on. Then service, where 10 hours a month will be enough early in the game. Then after baptism, they hound to get 50, then 70, then 100, hours a month. (And more.) Once they get the 100, they shoot for 150, 200, 250,... Plus doing volunteer work building more Kingdumb Hells, going to Bangladesh and China (Nigeria is spoken for already) to build the numbers up to and above 7 million, then 8, 9, 10,... And you are still not doing enough!
If you are having problems, even if it's the organization's fault, they blame you. If you are putting in the pioneer time and getting sick as a direct result, then it's your fault. If you give up that college education at the directive of the Craptower Society and get stuck in a dead end, low-paying job and are not able to pay your bills, that's your fault. If your child is molested by one of the hounders while in a houndingcounseling session, that's your fault and that of the child. If the rules are too strict and you are not able to follow them, that's your fault. If you are too hot in summer because you have to wear your suit coat out in service and you faint at the door, that's your fault. If you wet your pants because the group insisted on keeping you out in service way too long without a break (at the directive of the hounder-hounder, who got a letter from the Society that people were taking way too many breaks), it's your fault. If you are unable to function because your personal development was stifled by all the non-stop service at the directive of the Society, that's your fault.
And they blame the apostates for leaving. Getting disillusioned with the lack of love, seeking the real Christ (which is Jesus, not the Governing Body), having the hounders deliberately sabotage your family life by keeping you single and celibate or constant interfering with your running the family, or being constantly exhausted from all the service is not excuse to leave the Craptower. Then they feel that the apostates are slandering the organization, when usually all they are doing is putting the pieces back in context and exposing the dirty secrets of the Tower.
As for where the individual end and the Tower begin? The Tower gets to run your life totally, and they get credit for when things do go right. But you get the work and the blame for the Tower's problems. The individual is property of the Watchtower Society, and nothing more.
