You may have heard about that Celestial Chariot at the meetings or a$$emblies. This is in reference to the Book of Ezekiel, and when they go through that book, that chariot is commonly referred to. It is described as being infinitely maneuverable and having eyes on all its tires, which are 3-D.
The real joke is that the Watchtower Society claims to be that chariot. They claim to be what God is driving around. This explains why some doctrines are not revealed until much later, and helps explain a lot of the "new light" crap. They claim that the organization is responsive to God's directive, and is able to respond in infinitely short time, always in the correct direction.
Here's why it is not so. How many times have they changed doctrines, only to change it back some time later? Why would an infinitely maneuverable chariot have to go in circles? And how come they are just plain wrong in so many ways, like predicting when Armageddon is coming? Does this mean that the celestial chariot is going off the road each time? Infinitely maneuverable?
Then there is the practical issue. Do they really need rules about wearing white dress shirts, no wire rimmed glasses, and no Smurfs? Do they really need to dictate what music you can and cannot listen to? What you have discerned acceptable now, are you ready to hear about how bad it is two months from now because the hounder-hounder does not like that art work? And the screech arrangement (where people are supposed to be running around at top speed from 5:30 in the morning to after midnight to place the absolute maximum literature) doesn't seem to be working: people are walking slower than snails, and they don't seem to be getting results. Perhaps if they really wanted results, they should have been using the Internet since the late 1990s to provide more than what the official site does.
Timely? What about banning disco music in 1983, about 3 years after disco imploded? Or, I suppose it was timely if you needed an organ transplant sometime between 1967 and 1980. Suppose you needed it in early 1980 and died just a day before they retracted that ban. How timely is that? The oral sex issue is another one: Between 1969 and 1978, they were disfellowshipping people for this heinous crime. Does this make any sense? Did it make sense to the Malawians when Mexicans were allowed to bribe their way out of military service? Maybe they think CDs are just now becoming a problem: I remember plenty of Craptower issues that picked on vinyl records and tapes, but not CDs, dated in the mid 1990s. Is that timely?
This also has problems in the administration. The book Crisis of Conscience has a nice write-up about how there is so much bickering among the Governing Body about things. They need a two-thirds majority to change anything. So, based on the votes of a few men, key doctrines can be on the table for months or even years before being acted on. Often, they go out of date while they are being fought on. Raymond Franz exposes this in his book Crisis of Conscience: reading it reveals that the Celestial Chariot really isn't so maneuverable--or that the Watchtower Society cannot be it.
If the Watchtower Society actually is the celestial chariot, it is far from the infinitely maneuverable vehicle described in Ezekiel. It seems to take forever to steer, it always goes way off course, it tends to get stuck, and actions are usually out of date before they are taken. And, once enough people see how this cumbersome organization, full of departments and bickering and chances for errors to creep in, actually works, they will see that the Celestial Chariot is full of flat tires. Some of the damaging letters are available that reveal this departmentalization on www.freeminds.org and www.watchtower.cc .