Cattails, I understand your feelings of helplessness. There really is no quick fix to get through to indoctrinated family members. The WT knows this. The WT also knows that what wobble said is true: it is VERY DIFFICULT to maintain a conscious class status within the borg. They use this to their advantage and push the BS as hard as they can so that anyone who is of the conscious class will be looking forward to getting out asap.
I think it is clear that the borg would rather lose more than 1.5% of their total active membership every year than allow people who dissent to stick around and plant ideas of independent thought into the minds of the collective. Search Solomon Ashe Conformity Experiment on youtube and see exactly how dangerous just ONE dissenter in a group can be to the conformity behavior of a doubter.
So the borg deals with the conscious class in several ways. It indoctrinates the rank and file with fear of apostates that they reinforce with loaded language such as "apostate" "doubts" "questioning" "independent thinking" that all carry heavy negative connotations often connected to the word and the action "shun." So a conscious class person has to be cautious as a serpent in planting seeds among his/her loved ones. The WT knows that the stress of it will eventually become too much and he'll either say something outright that will get him DFd, or he'll give up the fight and DA, or he'll fade to the point where he's considered "weak" and therefore be marginalized as a source of good information.
So it's frustrating. I had high hopes of being among the conscious class. Instead I'm a fader who seems to have been marked by almost everyone I know.
Example. I'm in line with my family at an event recently. I notice behind me a guy from the KH. Probably in the bottom 10% as far as meeting attendance and service, etc. He'd be considered fairly weak by most accounts in the Borg. But apparently I'm even lower on the pole at this point. After an initial greeting he tried not to meet my eye and my efforts to engage in small talk were only reluctantly responded to. Then a few minutes later his wife comes up (no offense ladies but sisters are WAY more judgmental than brothers), sees me there, says something to him and they just leave. They didn't stay in line or attend the event. Maybe I'm assuming too much by thinking it was because of me but I really wouldn't be surprised.
So once it's public knowledge that you're fading your ability to function effectively as a conscious class member is curtailed. You're already shunned even when you're not DFd.
I had an idea, though, of a way to disseminate information to loved ones anonymously. If sent from each of us personally or even from each of us anonymously, they'd know it was from us because of the postmark. BUT, if enough of us exchanged the addresses of loved ones we would like to receive certain materials (Combatting Cult Mind Control, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Crisis of Conscience, or smaller brochures or letters, etc.) and mailed them from elsewhere they wouldn't be able to identify us via postmark. I haven't thought it all the way through but it is an idea I'm toying with. I think we need to be more organized than we are. They claim to be opposed by apostates but they haven't seen anything yet, IMO.
