There is an expression "phoning it in" and that pretty much sums up the way Watchtower leadership looks to me across the past several
years. The first clue I got was when they didn't bother to start any witch hunt against obvious 'apostate' problems in the organization. The rants
of Rutherford or Knorr are long gone and cheap, half-hearted measures are the order of the day. They seem downright lazy in many respects,
while child-like publishers beg for scraps of information to keep their Kingdom fantasies alive. An internet grapevine of speculative e-mails
substitutes for anything meaningful or inspiring coming out of WT official-dom ( or is that official-dumb?). Long gone are hardbound books on
evolution or much of anything else beyond a grade school reading level.
Witnesses are like the offspring of some half drunk and uncaring parent who eagerly extol the most meager and minimal signs of attention in a
desperate bid for love. It makes you think of a sort of Skinner-box program of random and infrequent reinforcement to maximize inexpensive
response.
The only justice I can discern in this sad mess is that the publishers are so passive-aggressive that some Watchtower overseers must dream
about dumping them as a deepening burden and drain on their assets. Zeal commonly resembles the Russian saying , "they pretend to pay us
and we pretend to work". I continue to think that the final chapter if this sick organization may come about from the top losing interest in the
whole religion than from any rebellion at the bottom.
metatron