by ISP 15 Replies latest jw friends
You know the situation...a fighter can be in the ascendency...well ahead...have his opponent on the ropes. But can he put his opponent away? Does he have the KO punch? Will he let his opponent hold on waiting for the bell and hope of respite?
Consider now the WTS...is there a KO punch? Will it always be able to 'hold on'? Ride the heavy hits and come back with its own stuff? Or is there something, some situation that would stagger it and bring it to the canvass?
Any thoughts?
ISP
The Watchtower Bullshit & Guilt Society is much bigger than any 900 pound gorilla. I have sincere reservations that any one thing will constitute the "knockout punch" that you're hoping for.
If it should come to pass, I would rather that the strike be a spear hand thrust into the well of the throat, but that's just a personal preference.
I think it is better to celebrate each individual that gets their life back.
I think that time may be their worst enemy. Eventually they will be forced to go main stream or dry up. They have done a pretty good job at stretching the word "soon" out, in regards to the big A but at some point people are going to have to realize that 1914 is a bunch of bunk. You already see it in the U.S. So in answere to your question; I think it will be more of a slow death than a knock out.
There will always be an audience for mindless drivel.
Rex
Hey ISP,in the ring ,some opponants are tougher or more skilled than you expected.In which case you have to wear them down before you can lay them out.I believe the same stratagy is needed for the WBTS...OUTLAW
There is no one killer punch, but what's happening now will continue to happen - the Tower is reeling from being hit so rapidly from so many different directions - the paedophile cover-ups, the UN cover-up, the blood issue, the drifting away of young people in search of lives, the absence of any end date to work towards, the dying away of the old guard. The Tower may simply collapse from sheer exhaustion some time soon...
"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it."
- Groucho Marx
I have to agree with most of the posters here. There is no KO punch for the "society". Really, do we want that? I don't, in particular (I could care less if they die of natural causes--i.e., refusal to change). But there are many evils out there to be faught. WTS is pretty small potatoes, IMO. Not that I won't call them on their B.S. and keep watching and dogging their archaic policies at every turn until they evolve into a useful little religious corporation and loosen their chokehold. Not sorry there's no KO, but there's something better than a Death Blow: Evolution. We are bringing about painful change in the organization by making them be honest. Metatron initiated an excellent post on the changes effected by we who dare question publicly the almighty WTS.
My two cents,
Bridgette
Well Nathan...there is always hoping. I am happy for either ....grinding out a win is cool! But is there a scandal or other matter that would prove fatal?
I also agree with open and rex.
ISP
Grinding Class
I think the only KO is going to be God.
When I left the JWs two years ago, I believed that they’d always be around. Maybe little or no growth but always around. However my view is starting to change. While I don’t think that there is a KO punch (expect maybe for another GB to leave and let some REALLY damaging info out) I do believe that the Internet is the Achilles heel of the Society. Just look at the UN scandal. Definitely not a KO punch but without the Internet this information wouldn’t have been discovered let alone become known by so many people. Everyone knows that there are hundreds, if not thousands of lurkers here reading this information. I’m sure that the UN scandal didn’t “knock” them out of the “truth” but I’m sure it knocked the wind out of them.
Over the next five to ten years there is going to be a big backlash against the boys in Crooklyn. Today’s young JWs are growing up with the Internet and have accessed sites like this one. While many won’t leave, most won’t view the GB or whoever else is in charge with the kind of “aw” that JWs in the past did. Either the Society will “lighten up” on topics like b-days and blood transfusions or the flood gates will open and droves of JWs will leave. I’m hoping for the latter.
