1. WT history & change toward youth 2. somehow repeating itself?

by L3G 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  L3G

  In Da.Furios's recent thread

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/280534/1/Recent-refinements-changes-in-WTS#.U5JGAf3HOlI

  he made this comment:

  WTS/GB is run as a corporate [corporation?]. Managers should be young but it does not matter for the Board!

  It got me thinking about WTS history. Do others remember how the Judge used to rant against "big business" along with the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestants, and the governments? (that is from studying it. None of us were around then!). He reguarly used to condemn the three in one breath. It was his sort of unholy trinity. Whatever happened to that? Now they'll still rant occasionaly against other religions, and the governments/wild beast, but what ever happened to "laying bare" the evils of the corporate world?

  Is it because they have heavily adapted the business world's ways, that is, the manner in which Knorr, Fred Franz, and their cronies govern the organization? Thus they had to quit blasting them since they have been and are now still the WTS's model?

  This then got me thinking about something else. When the Judge died, Knorr and Franz were young guys. JFR hand picked them along with the young Hayden Covington to take over. He wanted young leadership. In some sense, is WT history repeating itself, with this emphasis on young leadership?

  Your thoughts on these two points?
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  FFtruther144

  In my opinion the strategy helps to memory-hole the past.

  This way the organization sheds itself of possibly jaded management level servants that would notice doctrinal flip-flops and so forth.

  This leaves managers that have only ever known the current version of doctrine and would not be prone to thinking "Hey wait a minute..."

  And this restructure is a part of the WTBTS/CAJW merger with the New World Order.
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  steve2

  When the imminent end is permanently 'just round the corner' you have to ask, How much well-considered longer-term planning does the organization have in place? Clearly, the move from Brooklyn - expected to be completed by 2017 - reflected longer-term planning. Even though the 'nearness' of the end would not sit readily within say, a ten-year plan (that many secular corporations have policies on), these guys have married two potentially opposing notions: The nearness of the end (but, brothers, we cannot say exactly when,) and the need for cost-cutting in an organization known to have been asset rich but finance poor). So....the guys who promulgate the expected 'warnings' and 'thrillings' about the nearness of the end and likely not the same guys who plan and execute the global stream-lining ofthe organization. So, somewhere in the bowels of Brooklyn there may be subtly opposing "forces": Those who hammer the hardline doctrinal views could be trying to reign in the long-term planners (and vice versa).

  It's a real bugger when the end doesn't come and there are costs to be cut and money to be more astutely used. And, yes, there are likely views on using youth more actively than they have in the past - but how united are the "leaders" on this is a matter of speculation. Perhaps time will tell....?