What would happen if Bethal closed tomorrow? (page 2)

SixofNine

What would happen if Bethal closed tomorrow?

The music would live on man, the music would live on.

Abaddon

Is that a quote from 'Soul Music' SixofNine?

I know what would happen. The unemployment figures would go up and there would be a glut of janitors and window-cleaners!

Howabout this?

Say that there are big class action issues in the next ten years that basically make the corporate arm insolvent.

The Internet would be un-demonised to some extent. The Borg would live on, controlling the congregations world-wide via the Internet. People would study online, and would pay a subscription for this, possibly by using making new organisation communications arm an ISP, amongst other things.

If this happened, they could monitor your net activities. Study resources would probably only be available whilst on-line, to maximise revinue and to allow Sheperding E-Mails if you weren't studying enough, or failing to log-on for on-line meetings. As by this point any computer screen would be intergrated with a video camera, they could WATCH you. As the access would be 24hr xDSL or better, this means...

... 1984 is even MORE applicable than we ever thought.

Preaching would be largely on-line, and would be wholey incidental in nature, bringing the topic up in worldly chat rooms and such. This would be logged by the Borg.

All web-site vists and communications traffic (if you have xDSL your ISP is your 'phone company). Software would monitor this for signs of spiritual weakness, wrong-doing, independant thought, doubt, anything they wanted, triggering judicial proceedings.

Ultimately, disfellowshipping would consist of being disconnected... from the collective...

And isn't Borg even more appropriate?

Young kids would have their own account from an early age. They would be taught on-line, at home. They would know nothing of the outside world apart from hurried forays into a world depicted as corrupt, evil and dangerous. As the xDSL link would also carry TV programs, entertainment provided would be so bland it sould make Disney look like Buttman, and news would be from a strict, new society-centric view.

The people caught in this nightmare scenario would, if unhappy, have to resort to trying to hack the system to try and get help, information, whatever.

And those who had got out, well, xJW's would be the world's best hackers. Supreme cyber-freedom fighters hacking into www.yhwh.org, or whatever this demonic web of misery would be called.

A contest people; let's find the scriptures they will use to support this!!

First of all, the almost total isolation;

"Are we not told to 'be no part of the world'. Does the Bible not say 'Get out of her my people!'? Modern technology now means that Witnesses of the True God can comply with these instructions. The Internet allows us to receive 'food at the right time'. It means we will not be 'forsaking the gathering of ourselves together'. We can also still preach to others as is our Christian duty in these times of the end. What is more, by associating with the world-wide congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, one can join working with your brothers and sisters, as a community, avoiding those 'bad associations' that 'spoil useful habits'."

Yup, because in many, many jobs will be done from home in ten years time. And the Borg will mass together its subscribers, train them as required, and hire them out, using the best as a dispersed hierachy, with super-user priveledges, access to 'LOGOS', the central computer, and an unmonitored coms feed.

Any other scriptures?

People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...

What would happen if Bethal closed tomorrow?

SixofNine

Abaddon

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