Once upon a time, the U.S. got involved in Vietnam. Since American lives were lost, more lives and money had to
be invested to avoid confronting defeat. This went on painfully for years until a face-saving exit could be found.
In the world of business management, this is called 'escalating commitment'. A company gets trapped into deeper and
deeper trouble because they can't admit that their capital is lost and so must keep investing in a bad idea.
This is how things like Enron or WorldCom develop....
BUT it's also how cult religions entrap people.
You invest time in preaching and peddling magazines door to door. You sacrifice a promising career and a university
education. You withdraw from 'worldly' relatives and old friends at work. You attend five meetings week after week.
You do this for a year ........ two years ......... five years........ ten years ......... thirty years.
You develop diabetes and your hair turns gray. You sit in a nursing home and tell what rare Witness visitors you receive
that "Armageddon must be very close now" .................................. just like your grandfather did.
The tragedy here is a life not really lived
because the victim could not face the fact
that he invested the precious currency of his life
in a hope that is always "soon" ---- but never fufilled.
If I were God, I would never treat people like this.
Maybe that's what you should conclude, too.
metatron