by metatron 42 Replies latest jw friends
If the GB can pack out Assembly Halls for 'Special Days' when nothing new is presented then you have to think not much with shake up the Sheep.
The meetings have become nothing more than a networking/network marketing program, and a place where men can maintain control of their women.
You can put the public edition of the Watchtower and Awake in the class of junk mail.
Though October 2011 Awake states it has an average printing of 39,913,000 and the Watchtower is 42,162,000; it is only a very low percentage of JWs that actually read them. Even far fewer of the general public that does.
What a waste of paper! Me thinks the WTBTS needs to think more green and go paperless (literally and close down the WT writing dept) if anything else for the sake of the evironment. My guess is that it will.
God will bring to ruin those ruining the earth. Mass druicide can't go on forever.
I don't think it will collapse completely, there are too many people who are subjectively subtle enough to believe just about any god infused
commercialized bullshit. As long as they keep on going door to door they are getting to catch these people and exploit them with their
well prepared indoctrination skills. There is an obvious paring down of the organization's operations, such as the selling off of branches worldwide.
The removal of the Book study meetings, the lessening of magazines produced, a members only Watchtower ....etc.
Add in the fact that the WTS. is worth over a billion + in pure real estate holdings and you can see a long drawn out existence in the works.
I appreciate your comments but I don't know if you're getting my point about the organization's vital need for skilled, educated labor - which they may not be able to afford across the globe.
Selling off valuable real estate is a big plus for them but that doesn't solve their potential legal and logistical issues. Look, ANY corporation would have difficulty doing what the Watchtower does in coordinating printing tens of millions of magazines in 188 languages, each month. It truly is remarkable and that's why they impress business tours of Bethel so much.
but sell off the Branches, layoff Bethelites, and discourage the unpaid fanatics ...... and THEN what happens?
7 million publishers on paper mean nothing unless they come across with donations or skilled workmanship - and both may be in doubt, as events unfold. I also wonder if their new brochures for the mentally challenged are a desperate attempt to keep things very simple and manageable.
I say these Governing Bozos aren't Guilliver being tied down by Lilliputians. They are already much less, facing much more potential difficulty. Their empire is razor thin, lacking depth of defense (an engineering way of looking at things) and in danger of disruption.
Doing online only magazines won't be effective and print costs money. I see no business model for them to follow.... and why would they be starting to sell off both Kingdom Halls and some Assembly Halls, if they are such cash cows? What would happen if dopey Witnesses everywhere heard of a "deficit" and just said, "they always say that!".
metatron
" Could the Watchtower and Awake Collapse ? " Yes indeed, if you tear the magazines up into pieces and set them on fire and do ritualistic dances around a campfire watching them burn into ashes - sure, the magazines can collapse. We've actually done this at apostafests before. It's very freeing and energizing
The Awake! Magazine will NEVER collapse! I mean, imagine the world without informative, college-level articles such as "Swiss- the Tasty Cheese With Holes In It" or
"Tree Frogs- Friend or Foe?"
Now that's funny ! (funny....and true)
No way it will.
There will always be a core group hiding out in a basement somewhere pretending the 'nazi's' are going to get them or something.
J-Duds love persecution, be it imagined or not.
There will always be a core group hiding out in a basement somewhere pretending the 'nazi's' are going to get them or something.
Remember the experiences about ones who would hide WT literature, so they would have spiritual food from the F&DS? The shit would probably be out-of-date old light now.
There are still very nutty hardcord JW's around. This religion may fall, but it is not going to collaspe completely.
Think About it
If they can talk their way out of 1914 they can do anything.
