It's incredible how a thought can be so simple - yet overlooked
all the same.
Suppose that meetings and field service and everything else
connected with being a Witness WAS DONE WILLINGLY? Suppose
it was all really voluntary? Could they survive without threats
or peer pressure?
This struck me while watching the Simpsons - Lisa decided
to become a Buddhist. It suddenly struck me that some people
follow ritual of all sorts - without anyone threatening to
disfellowship or shun them - they just do it because they want to.
No elders upbraiding, no circuit overseers demanding, no
peers shunning,nothing.
The Watchtower leadership hates the idea of really willing service,
while simultaneously telling the world that Witnesses are
"volunteers". Can you imagine them ever ALLOWING people to
'escape' to other religions without trying to punish them?
Heck, they don't even allow elders to resign!(you must get the
approval of the rest of the body of elders).
It all reminds me of Communist rule - where they had to use repression
because they couldn't compete in open markets. I could imagine
panic amidst the elderly goofs who rule this stupified mess,
watching Witnesses sneak off to churches with day care, soup
kitchens, REAL CHURCH MUSIC, charity, programs for teenagers,
programs for the elderly, ----- you know, stuff Jesus would like!
metatron