When a person looks at the sheer volume of Watchtower lies, denial of Salvation, free labor, false prophecies, misrepresentations, gas-lighting and falsehoods about everything and anything, it makes me wonder if it's one big test to see how gullible people can be.
There was as social experiment in the 1960's that tested how far people were willing to administer an increasing dose of electric shock if directed to do so by an authority figure. Shockingly, people were willing to give lethal doses to their neighbors. Unbeknownst to the subject, the electric shock recipient was an actor and did not actually get shocked. The objective was to see how long the subject would administer the shock even if the "victim" was screaming in agony. The experiment had to be stopped. It was very disturbing to everyone involved.
I wonder if the JW's started as a similar experiment to test the gullibility of people to see how far would people be willing to go in destroying their lives, families, and loved ones if directed to do so by a similar authority figure.
Would make a great movie:
The Experiment
Plot : At the dawn of the 20th century, a top-secret sociological experiment known to only a very few was initiated to test the gullibility of people. Tragically, the inventers of the experiment were all drowned during a WW1 naval attack. Decades later a bright young woman, Vivian, finds her grandmother's sociological notes during a vacation at the family cabin in the mountains. Apparently, her grandmother (whom she is named after), was one of the original social engineers who initiated the experiment. Vivian slowly realizes that the experiment is still going on and was never stopped. Then it hits her: the experiment has been proceeding unhindered for over 100 years and has stolen the lives and families of untold millions of people.
She decides to alert all those affected by the terrible experiment gone wrong. But, the people won't listen to her. They do everything to try and silence her. But, driven by compassion and love for those caught in the on-going experiment, she just tries harder and harder to reach them. Tragically, she is permanently silenced by someone who lost several generations of their family to "the experiment". The killer, who ironically should have wanted to be free the most, and whose own life was riddled with misery, defeat, and failure, chose to protect the experimental apparatus that plagued him. He chose credulity over fidelity, hell-fire over love, and familiarity over freedom.
Vivian perished along with her grandmother's notebook, which the killer pitched into a fire after reading it from cover to cover.