What Does the Organization Teach Us About Organizations?

by metatron 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  This may sound cynical but....

  I have been part of an organization that has greatly profited itself by stringing people along for 130 years and taking their contributions while falsely promising Armageddon soon.

  So, I wonder. How often is this pattern repeated in general society? Yup, we're right on the edge of a cure..... real soon.... any day now.... just a little longer. The year is 2012 and we still have cancer, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes and our lifespan is about threescore and ten. WTF!

  Especially since I have some experience working behind the scenes at telethons (in which they may find a female who can cry on air about an hour before it all shuts down) , I have stopped giving to most charities.

  If Charles Taze Russell thought that organizations were bad because they simply exist to perpetuate themselves, he may have been an amazing genius on that point. There is money to be made in a nicely predictable way if people can "treat" suffering - instead of a loss of employment that follows ending it.

  I continue to hope in the power of the internet. It may yet save us from the schemes of the elite.

  metatron
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  finally awake

  I think that's a good point about organizations in general. Few want to close up shop, but most are not interested in reinventing themselves unless forced to do so. A religious corporation has an advantage in that they aren't selling a physical product - it's a service. It's easier to retool and revamp a service - hairdressers learn to cut new styles, accountants learn to work with new laws, but a wagon builder has a much harder time switching to building cars.
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  JeffT

  We've made lots of progess in lots of areas. Life expectancy in for those born in 1900 was about 48, now its 80. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html

  Many cancers are treatable, as is heart disease. We have cars, TV's, computers, cell phones all sorts of things. I wouldn't extrapolate too much from what one organization did, or more accurately, did not do.