What Do Changes Tell You About The GB?

by metatron 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  I read the May (public) WT and noted how it was almost indistinguishable from the Awake - including stuff for small children to read!

  Now, why would they create two 16 page magazines? Why not one 32 page AwakeTower? Maybe because they are so blindly bound to tradition that they can't bring themselves to kill off the Awake completely. And the 'confidential' aspect of this looks ham-handed as well.

  They keep pushing and pushing against college while Witnesses quietly disobey. This is politically and tactically foolish. If you can't get traction on an issue with the masses, it's best not to damage your authority any further and stop the emphasis.

  They seem foolishly unaware of "brand identity' loss in regard to their Brooklyn Headquarters. They seem surprized that their Family Study night isn't working.

  The downsized Sunday talk is embarrassing. You get some typically unthinking, uncritical elder spewing negativity for a half hour to a degree I cringe at.

  The whole 'generation' thing should have been left alone. Creating an 'overlap' accomplished nothing useful. Duh! There's no time limit on Armageddon. Stop talking about it, you Theocratic dolts.

  I see a collective leadership that doesn't measure up even compared to the Watchtower's anti-intellectual past. No great prophetic vision, no bold ideas, not even competent marketing. Cutting back, however clumsily, seems the order of the day.

  I'll believe the 'barely absorbent enough to paper train puppies' magazines when I see them.... but overall, this is the Governing Body That Couldn't Shoot Straight.

  metatron
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  mP

  It seems to me these GBs are very much corporate types, its all abotu the money.

  Moving the Canada leaving Brooklyn, cutting mags, selling bethels, KH and other properties, there seems to be very little theology while money seems to king in all their decisions.
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  LV101

  Those GB buffoons are doing what their money advisors and legal beagles tell them to do. They are puppets enjoying retirement.
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  Phizzy

  They certainly have no cogent plan, they are reactive only. And their kneejerk response to situations does not bode well for the future, which is a good thing.

  With a business like theirs, small, almost non- existent over-heads compared with conventional corporations, even conventional charities, guaranteed income from the property scam, and to a lesser extent donations (I mean less predictable, not size), they only need to pep up the marketing a bit.

  The problem is that to do so they would have to bring in outside consultantswho would recommend methods that are anathema to them, TV advertising for example. They do not have any marketing expertise they can call on from within their own ranks, nor do they have business consultants of any calibre.

  The G.B themselves have no knowledge or expertise in the required areas, none for the real world in fact.

  Their condemnation of further education means that the bright people are in the "world", they are left with window washers and janitors who are not capable of steering a huge Corporation in the 21st century.