Alpha Omega wrote:
Does anyone think that this is connected to the September KM Question Box ?
I'm sure that it at least influenced it. Personally, I believe that the WTS may have even known something was in the works long before this. Is it any coincidence that one of the talks at the current District Conventions is telling people not to trust in "false stories"? I have not attended the convention, but from what I hear, the convention talks really hammered on any and all unflattering information on the internet pertaining to the WTS. Any unflattering information about the organization or it's leadership can always be conveniently painted as "the voice of strangers".
This of course is the Society's usuall m.o. throughout it's history. Look at the way Rutherford and his supporters portrayed the exodus of Bible Students after Russell's death. When the Bethel shake-up happened in 1980, the Society soon thereafter published a KM article denouncing the "apostasy" at Bethel, and painted the situation as one of Jehovah cleansing his organization of those who tried to subvert the "Slave Class". Soon after that, they published a WT study article about "the voice of strangers" and "apostates".
I have no doubt that the WTS will be kicking it's hooves and publishing some WT study articles about "false stories", and how they originate from Satan's desire to shake people's faith in Jehovah's organization. It will be the same apologetic cliches, platitudes, sloganeering, and talking points as usuall. Always has been, always will be.