From 1968 to mid 1975 Jehovah's Witness books, magazines and public sermons stretched the truth, quoted out of context cherry-picked secular scientists and social critics' words to assure every reader/listener history was closing in fast! Millions of people worldwide were put on high alert!
When the non-event passed with only an embarassing silence, the purpose of the Watchtower faltered, sputtered and almost died, but only momentarily.
Like a veteran boxer knocked to the floor for a 9 count, things in the local Kingdom Halls shifted into "downtime" as policies relaxed until the men at the top of the JW foodchain could find their legs again.
Ridicule, humiliation and a demand for explanations became an avalanche piling up in the local Kingdom Hall.
This was THE moment of truth for "The Truth".
It was now or never.
Would this religion look itself in the mirror and see wrong-headedness and self-delusion?
Or, would it become desperate like Hitler in his bunker with only reports of defeat pouring in from the homefront??
History reveals the answer!
The Watchtower turned around and began eating its own! A vicious program of strictness, blame-the-accuser, stone-walling and enforced-obedience reared its ugly head like a foaming hydra.
OBEY US or be gone!
From the top to the bottom it became a nightmare of crackdown. The doors were slamming and locks were being bolted as SEIGE MENTALITY set in!
A split shattered the ark of righteousness and water poured in drowning half the animals on board!
The noose tightened around the necks of the members whose mind's could still think rationally. If you spoke your doubts you'd hear your own neck snap!
Disambiguation could not be tolerated. Doctrines tightened their icy fingers on the jugular of rank and file servants. Tests of Loyalty and Obedience were administered and butts were kicked.
Meltdown in the crucible of Watchtower purpose produced a molten ore poured into a forge of cold denial, denial, denial!
No longer would "honest questions" be entertained and rebutted by flipping through the inerrant word of Jehovah. No. Questions triggered knee-jerk responses of warning, marking and disciplinary action!
A balance was no longer allowed between honest discussion and mild-tempered counsel. Conform or be banished!
That transformation and shrinking of "purpose" has produced the Jehovah's Witness robot of today.
This robotic worker/slave is programmed what to perform without variation. Personality and identity are forever expunged!
Old doctrines overgrown with weeds are now plucked and cast into the vault and the key thrown away! Any vulnerable theological point of contention is isolated like a virus in a laboratory. Members are never to turn around and look back at their destruction (by the Internet or ex-JW's) or they will turn into pillars of salt.
Jehovah's Witnesses world-wide have dissolved into a lifeless "thing" like a poison pellet. The membership is distilled into a serum. The Governing Body injects this serum into neighborhoods and infects the vulnerable with a fever of false prophecies and phony love-bombing by the feckless brotherhood.
The history of this religious group went from radical and self-serving to crackpot and shrill; from moderate and peculiar to hysterical and bizarre; to insular and dangerous.
What a journey through the wilderness!!
When you pick up that copy of WATCHTOWER magazine today you are peering into the distorted view of a sick and twisted ideology with its humanity drained away by intellectual dishonesty and denial.
The history of Jehovah's Witnesses is a landscape littered with disproof of divine support! Disproof is on every page: the leadership consists of liars, twisters of fact, double-dealers and wafflers who flim-flam and play the blame game.
Jesus Christ? Jehovah? Mere scrabble tiles aligned on a gameboard accruing bonus points by despotic old windbags out of touch with the very planet they inhabit!!
The Watchtower is a madhouse!
The inmates are running the asylum!!
The state-of-the-art Jehovah's Witness at your door cannot answer tough questions as in the old days. Why? They aren't required to KNOW anything beyond absolute Loyalty to the Governing Body as Lord and Master and co-Mediators, Kings and Priests.
This College of Cardinals are the be-all and end-all of a JW's career.
Shut up and listen.
Shut up and obey.
Report family members to the Elder Gestapo and win momentary Brownie Points!
Shun your best friend or your children and achieve a spiritual erection of excitement in your slavish obedience to mere men in high places!
Welcom to the MADHOUSE! This is the incredible rot of Watch Tower folly!