Well I think it will eventually go back to the suggestions made back in the late 1990's. Go to college, but with spiritual matters foremost in mind. It is a far more effective campaign to have JWs in all walks of society. I don't think the old timers are willing to risk it just yet but those babyboomers.....well they have years ahead of them and they want to benefit from being "the sole channel of God".
I will use myself as an example of the future.
I am currently a RN, when working I earn $30+ hourly. I work on average 3 (24-36 hours) days a week or can opt to do a weekend "baylor" which is 2 days.
This frees up 4-5 days for ministry work. My profession lets me travel "where the need is greater" and yet I would still be able to find a job readily, travel nurses are given an apartment or housing allowance plus travel expense. I can assist in ministering to the sick and the spiritually in need.
So I am available to go where they say, support myself, and donate more then if I was being paid $8 at Wal-Mart of Costcos.
This could work if they mainstreamed more of their appearances so that the damning evidence of Russell, Rutherford, Knorr, and Franz seems unimportant. I think they indoctrinate heavily then get lazy then freak-out when the $$$ goes down and start the process all over again.
Rutherford said Advertise Advertise Advertise.....
but in todays world advertising is not enough now it is Market Market Market.
Those of my generation have already heard this message and seen the dog & pony show again & again for 30-40 years..blah blah yawn.
I suck at writing but I bet with the WT CD and scans of older pubs that I could write efficient articles for the WT/Awake via copy/paste.
No what I hear most from my peers is the desire for a fuller JW "lifestyle". We are craving the various "ministries" of Christendom, we want our kids to sing in choirs, Sunday schools and plan missionary trips to the rainforests. We want a "women's outreach" and a "men's association". We know we should do something charitable towards our non-JW communty. We would happily devote more days of the week if we really felt we had a community rather then concerns about tattling. We would volunteer for missionary work similar to the Mormons. We would welcome JW schools and colleges. We want reasonable reproofs. We want the GB to knock off the 1914, 1919 gibberish and to be 'real' with us, have them and others at Bethel actually become Bible scholars. Let all partake, and the WTS to get it's fat ass off of Jesus' throne and earn their keep. Most of us would like Birthdays for our children, most of us hate X-mas and Easter but almost all of us celebrate Thanksgiving and 4th of July (we are a generation of pyromaniacs). We liked DCs when they were in cool towns that had amusement parks, when food was served, and deals on hotels were good. We miss hanging at the pool as a group and having fun while Elder/MS dads down a couple of beers. We miss organized amusement park trips......we are not a generation that will go along with "beatings to improve morale" oh no we will sit in that KH and take up space to keep our parents involved with our kids but we will not be making any contributions other then locally (depending on mood) and FS will be a joke. Above all lighten-up Trib/BigA is gonna happen when it is gonna happen, what matters most is if we are faithful Christians........I doubt this will ever happen and am happy to see the tower crumble as fast as possible. Life goes on....
