I left before so many of what they would call "HUGE" changes occured. I was around until 2007.
1. The generation doctrine. It's now an " overlapping generation " teaching involving two overlapping generations.
They lived with the 1914 generation for so long and only slightly morphed it from "adults" in 1914 to include babies. I was pretty sure they were going to live with the 1995 "wicked generation" for quite some time. But when they flipped it in 2008 to "anointed generation" nothing further would surprise me about "generation." Still, I would have said this was too stupid for them to suggest- nobody would buy it. Shame on me.
2. The blood transfusion doctrine. It's now a conscience matter to accept blood " fractions " even though these still come from blood.
I was there for "fractions." It was one of those "HUH?" things for me. I thought, "Don't fractions come from donated blood?" I never would have supposed they would have come up with such a thing, but after leaving I better understand it's a way to phase out the blood doctrine and minimize lawsuits.
3. Deleting the home Book Study arrangement and moving the Book Study to the congregation meeting at Kingdom Halls out of homes.
That one, I could see. But I might have guessed in the opposite direction- Eliminate the mid-week meeting at the Kingdom Hall and expand the home book study to accomodate more congregations at the Hall.
4. The printing of TWO different Watchtowers.
Yes, I imagined the printing would slow down. I thought they might have eliminated a public version altogether.
5. The opening up of more partakers.
No, I thought as I was leaving that they had discouraged people from believing they were anointed. I didn't pay any attention to how the numbers didn't add up. I thought it would drop and drop and drop.