I just got wind of a situation in our congregation where a younger brother made the comment to another elder that, "the Truth just isn't for him." This brother was what one might call a semi-born-in, in the sense that his mother began studying when he was a young buck. He has a handful of siblings who with the exception of one other than himself, all hung around the religion, and then moved on in their adult years. He got burned by a couple JW females, and he's ready to explore his options outside of the Borg. It's just a matter of time now, and whether his other sibling who's the only other one out of the family who stuck with it, remains with it, time will tell but the statistics don't make that outcome promising at least from the Borg's perspective.
The reality is, this religion has absolutely nothing to offer young people. As a result, the religion's heirarchy isn't concerned with making it more appealing, or reforming doctrinally where it's needed most, but rather they're interested in retaining all who've made the unfortunate mistake of getting baptized in the name of the Father, The Faithful & Discreet Slave, and the Holy Watchtower/Bible & Track Society. The Service Meeting part from a couple weeks back on, Divine Education, quite possibly was the most embarrasing thing I've ever sat through in this organization. It was so glaringly obvious within that meeting and during that part, that the leadership in this organization is lacking creativity and for a lack of better words, gonads, at least male gonads anyway. Heck, say what you like about Rutherford, Knorr, F.Franz, Russell, but at the very least they had some kind of initiative, some kind of drive to blaze a trailway of sorts. The current administration just doesn't have anyone or any clique dynamic enough to do what's necessary to make this organization worth sticking with, at least from a young one's perspective. It'd be a joke if not for all the young people forced to become adults way before they're ready all because the Watchtower encourages giving the boot to any young one who doesn't decide to stick with this crummy way of life.
When one thinks about it, what has the organization done in recent years that can be labeled dynamic? All the Aricept and Namenda in the world won't help you recall anything promising in this organization. Rather, they're selling properties for profit, laying off Bethelites, taking advantage of volunteer labor, laying on heavy guilt trips, anything and everything they can do to buy more time and force as many people as they can to waste their lives supporting those not willing to work in Walkhill. Some days they get me because its difficult shedding my upbringing, but my instincts tell me that the jig is up. Time is their worst enemy right now, but like my worldly homie always says when he wins a game of Madden, "It's a wrap." That it is, for this organization in its current form, and in times past, it's a wrap. It will never completely cease to exist, but it absolutely cannot continue to exist in it's current form as a monsterous machine eating and chewing up lives, spitting out broken and torn out families, tooth picking corpses of teenage and young adult lives from its Theocratic Fangs. Nope, the jig is up.
