I rarely get to meetings (thankfully) but went last night to the MS/SM. I'm continually blown away by either the conductor or participant citing outrageous statistics. For example did you know that the US has a 5-6% growth rate? Did you know that we're building two new KH's a week? I've heard both these claims and left the meeting dumbfounded as to why no one would correct these obviously bogus statements. Last night however was the topper. A MS from Bethel makes the statement that Jehovah is blessing the one Awake monthly arrangement.
How does he know this? Is he in communication with God? Just because lightning hasn't struck Bethel, is he assuming that God's blessing is on whatever they do? After the meeting I couldn't resist telling him about the day that Fred Franz visited Watchtower Farm and stood in front of us along with Lou Wildman the pressroom overseer and Phil Wilcox the factory overseer and said that the W&A would be printed until Armageddon. Now that the public is receiving effectively half the information it received on a monthly basis, I wondered outloud how God would be blessing this arrangement. I'm sure he wrote me off as the weak inactive hasbeen that I am.