A New JW Offensive?

metatron

I am compelled to ask, are we seeing a new effort in Apologia by Jehovah's Witnesses?

Perhaps it is just the vain, 'last-ditch' efforts of a few to defend this sick, unloving cult. Efforts to disprove over 130 years of false promises. Efforts to overcome 'Captives of a Concept". Efforts to distract people from a real estate empire in Brooklyn based on donations obtained by fraud.

I don't think it will last - or even matter to the great mass of unthinking Witlesses. I-phones, internet porn, video games, and the unceasing ennui of sterile, pointless meetings will degrade the organization far beyond any logic - as 'reason' is a language most JW's can barely speak.

The semi-paranoid, greedy, 'screw the underlings' Governing Body will drift into ever more strident nonsense - while most Witnesses tune it out and keep up the pretense of a 'righteous' organization.

metatron

geevee

Needing all the "oldies" to die off will help...........

breakfast of champions

Jehovah's Witnesses in a word: moribund.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

stillajwexelder

Needing all the "oldies" to die off will help...........

They already did -on the GB anyway and it still has not done any good.

This organization is great at survival - remember that

CaptainSchmideo

A lot of New JW's DO come off as offensive to their old friends, oh, wait, misread the heading.....

designs

The human condition to need religious belief is slowly evolving but the majority of humans aren't done with it yet.

exjehovah

I am convined that they will try to build a compound and motivate their followers to leave everything behind and because Armageddon is coming.

Where else can they go with so many fumbles? How long can they keep predicating Armageddon and people have been born, died, etc?

Mickey mouse

I am convined that they will try to build a compound and motivate their followers to leave everything behind and because Armageddon is coming.

I agree this is coming but I think it's a few years off yet. It will happen once the big decline takes hold. There is noway they will mainstream.

Phizzy

No major change will happen, they have to be forced to change by circumstances, 100 years from 1914 coming up ? change the meaning of "generation" , costs going up ? sell property and downsize, close branches and K Halls, especially foreign languge ones.

All this is reactive, they never seem to foresee things, but their reacting, if not the best course, has worked thus far, so it would take a large event of some sort to rattle them in to any kind of major change.

I think we will keep seeing apologists on the Internet trying to defend the indefensible as long as the religion, sorry, business, exists.

They make so much money per year, and pay no tax, they are in a very strong position for years to come.

besty

not mainstreaming, not heading for a compound

IMHO - the JW religion is a front organization that funnels tax free donations and volunteer labour to the WTS

for as long as the front organization isn't costing too much to operate, the WTS won't significantly alter the wealth-creation formula

losing large numbers in a short space of time and/or a major unexpected setback (maybe split in the GB and schism org set up?) would be interesting to watch, other than that I suspect business as usual will prevail for many decades

A New JW Offensive?

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