the WTs releases vidos ever so often. Korah has always been popular-they use it to tighten the noose and frighten everyone. Most jw know that have been around for a while, it is one they use if sense problems. But it does not put them n a crisis mode.
Yes, I take your point, Wednesday. I certainly cannot say with any certainty that you are incorrect or disagree passionately.
That said, though, my sentence with the JWs began way back in the early 70s in my very young adulthood and came to its end within just the last eighteen months, so I've "been around a while."
Korah and his boyz are a very old WT saw I, too, have seen used more times than I care to recall. Similarly, I am nauseatingly familiar with WTS video production and the attendant meeting parts assigned in recent years to extort viewing. Imo, it's not the fact that it's still and again being employed to flog the flock; it's the Draconian use to which it's being put of late---coming so soon on the heels of high-profile df'gs and, more to the point, the August KM "study" article regarding treatment of df'd family members---, including the stepped-up "loyalty to Jehovah" angle tied to it that I believe are foreshocks that signal ominously and are easily overlooked by the casual or cursory observation.
One thing I came to learn about the Society [leadership] during my years in association is that everything they say and do ---no matter how inconsequential it may appear---represents some specific intent to manipulate and control some aspect of our thinking and behavior, whether we recognize(d) it as such or not.
So. Just my two. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
AMNESIAN
Edited by - AMNESIAN on 7 December 2002 17:24:5