I can understand why so many believe that the WTS is impervious to a collapse. After all, it has survived scandal, false prophecy, defection of prominent officials, vicious persecution from tyrants and dictators, mass exodus of many formerly faithful members and other ruptures. Other religions have done the same, the Roman Catholic Church being an outstanding example. However, I have hope that the "end" the WTS fondly hopes for will be its own. I'll remind everyone that thirty years ago, both the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union stood impregnable and secure. Nobody in his right mind would have predicted the Wall's peaceful breaching literally overnight on 9 November 1989 or the practically bloodless implosion of the Soviet Union in the few months of August to December 1991. History has seen similar events on all kinds of scales since its beginning. The WTS is a human organization and subject to the same kind of weaknesses that all human enterprises are.
So we cannot use present events or trends as some kind of barometer for this cult's future. Just as past institutions, governments and enterprises were caught completely by surprise by the rapid unfolding of events that led to their destruction, so the WTS can be. And those events can transpire not only with blinding speed, but originate from a quarter that nobody ever expected. I don't see the WTS surviving indefinitely. I may not be around when its demise finally comes, but based on what has happened in other times and places, I believe my hope is a sound one.
Quendi