It's getting scary. I think the Society is cautious enough (legal, legal) to avoid saying or doing anything too radical, even in the "Kool-Aid" Watchtower.
but individual Witnesses are another story!
Good God! The ones I know will put a chill up your spine! The older sister who is 'waiting' for her (dead) husband ( uh, and that ressurection marriage thing?). The one who eagerly hopes oil prices will somehow trigger Armageddon. The many, many, who keep making bold remarks about how 'it won't be much longer now'.
I swear sometimes I think the Governing Body could tell them ( a Body Of Elders letter, of course), "Dear Suckers, It was all crap, you're screwed and we've got all your money! F**k You Very Much" ('Your Brothers') - and they'd just ignore it, like it never happened.
The only guidance I recall in this regard is something I learned at Bethel.The guys who drank and swore a little and told bad jokes and chased sisterly tail were real. Many of them ended up as elders and such. However, the self righteous types who proclaimed their belief ostentatiously ALWAYS CRACKED UP, BROKE DOWN or just suddenly gave up and left -( and right now, such types seem dominant.)
I privately concluded that they were trying to convince themselves of whatever fanatical crap they talked about. I also noted that girls who said "I'm not looking to get married" were usually horny and lying.
Such is human nature. But I still wonder what it will take to get them out of their zombie-like stupor or how far they might go while deceived. The real horror of Jehovah's Witnesses presently is that they are shunning and abandoning family members who would be their only hope or support, should the Organization fail.
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