The scene of the world is changing and so must the JW religion in order to keep pace and keep losses in currant membership to a minimum and still offer an attractive lure for prospective new converts. This must be done on a regular basis just to keep them afloat as old teachings were actually made by a group of old men with old ideas and old dates that have to give way to the obvious reality of unfulfilled predictions.
The WT publishing company has sought new blood in the way of younger men appointed to the high ranks of the GB,, some receiving their calling to the anointed latter than 1960 long after the once imposed cutoff date of 1935 for those with the heavenly calling. I remember as an elder back in the 80's being told by the CO not to count some in the congregation who were partaking of the emblems at the memorial, because they were not baptized early enough and the reason given was that they obviously had some emotional problems that caused them to make the claim and that counting them would throw the WT figures out of whack.
Apparently the WT Corporation's CEOs are on the horns of a dilemma caused by their short sighted predictions and literal interpretations of the #144,000 in Revelation, and adding to the mix of doctrinal problems is also the ever increasing scientific knowledge being taught in grammar, middle, and high schools much to the chagrin of Bible Fundamentalist who are seeking and even demanding equal time for their theory of Intelligent Design Creationism.
Will the WT go with the flow and learn from the Catholic Church(who at one time tortured and killed heretics) but now accepts the earth is not the center of the universe and who's leader the Pope now claims the fact of evolution is not at odds with the Bible? Time will tell but the seeming trend of accumulated understand of how we got here explained factually by Science and taught in the lower schools does make the WT stand more and more untenable and harder and harder to defend even to the minimally educated as time goes on.
Will they eventually have to give up demonizing those who left and dropping their cruel shunning practices and become more mainstream like the catholic church who gave up persecuting those not agreeing with them just because it will prolong their existence for how ever longer time will tell.
Will they be able to make to get more younger and more creative minds making policy or will they stay stuck in the quagmire of old farts with hardening of the arteries only on the GB with slow brains and old uninformed ideas directing the WT ship through these perilous times for religious superstition?
The old must give way to the new it is a simple fact of nature.
So what new lights will becoming forth from the WT is any body's guess but one thing is certain there will be new light, but will it be ingenious enough to keep it afloat and for how long?