You know before this marvelous age of communication, you would say that I had to go looking for dirt on the society, but I was thinking about that. Isolationizm was a great thing for the society, because no knew what was going on, the people who study and questioned were put out with no one ever to hear from them again, what were they to do?, take out an add in the local newspaper to be heard and have a fair hearing? But now people can compare and learn from their research and inspiration. They can exaimin their situation with others who have suffered unscriptual shunnings by the society, and those inside who have become sickened with the politics and false prophesies can share where the bodies are buried in the those "whitewashed graves".
1957 WT
When a pilgrim was on his way to Jerusalem there was danger of his becoming unclean by unwittingly touching the grave of someone who had died in the open field. It was the practice that whenever anyone died in the open fields he was to be buried where he was found instead of being brought to the cemetery of the nearest town. These graves were whitened one month before the Passover in order to protect people from becoming unclean by touching them. It may have been these whitened graves that Jesus had in mind when he told the scribes and Pharisees: "You resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every kind of uncleanness."—Matt. 23:27.