One day, you have a religious movement calling for
total sacrifice, that every man should fight to the
death in God's service.
A few days later, the leadership is negotiating a
surrender in disgrace.
Could this portend the future of the Watchtower?
I think so - and I'll explain why:
First, no particular issue like the UN or Governing
Body corruption is going to affect the average,
willingly ignorant Witness. While I look forward to
the Dateline show, I know it isn't going to "bring
down the house". However, as I've tried to bring out
in posts about the "gelded Watchtower", their ideology
is decaying rapidly. Although their statistics are
merely stagnant, they can't defend or explain even the
simplest aspects of their own peculiar doctrines.
So, even though this feature of Watchtower rot is difficult
to quantify, I rate it as most significant.
Consider some history: In the book Lies My Teacher Told
Me, it points out that the defeated Confederacy could
have supported guerilla war for many years but didn't.
This was because the idea of enslaving blacks as
natural inferiors was exposed as nonsense since countless
numbers of them were capable soldiers in the Union Army.
Hmmm ... with so many women proving their managerical abilities
in the workplace, what will the old farts do to "keep the
sisters down" in the organization?
Long before the Soviet Union fell apart, its ideology
fell into disrepute as a means of human development.
Its fall was swift because its people had already lost
faith in its effectiveness - kinda like the way congregations
are losing zeal because the organization's advice on raising
children is so ineffective.
The Taliban will melt away into the mountains
and create trouble from time to time.
Russia still has some faithful communists, who hope
for revolution.
And the Watchtower will go on for years, in some
form or another.
Yet, humiliating changes can erupt suddenly when
the human market for ideas articulates the judgement
"THIS DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!"
It going to get interesting!
metatron