With the roll out of Watchtower 2.0 aka JW.org the corporation has been going to great lengths to bring the wacky doctrine that it has been preaching for decades to vivid reality. They have been painstakingly staging not only bible fables with heavy prop use and post production, but are trying to bring to life their projected future for mankind.
More recently they have been trying to play on the fears that people have of scenarios such as martial law unfolding and integrating their great tribulation doctrine mumbo jumbo in.
Regardless of what you think (for instance whether there may be martial law declared due to terrorist activity or natural disaster, or if that idea is just too far fetched) this sort of thing has a much greater impact when people see people placed in these scenes. As illogical as the great tribulation doctrine may be, JWs will not only place themselves in these scenarios, but will have their anticipation for them to be over with cranked up.
The question is:
In 2020, then 2025, then 2030 when they look back and see magazines like the Oct 15th 2015 WT with these vivid scenes will it cause dissonance to skyrocket far greater than the text and crappy illustrations did in the past?
New crap - Oct 15th 2015 Watchtower
Slightly older crap - Not sure when this was published
