Repost.
About 1997 I was told (on the quiet) by an ex-district overseer with ‘Bethel contacts’, that there had just been a meeting of District Overseers at London Bethel. The theme of the meeting was Post Armageddon Communications, no less. If communications were knocked out, they would have to be quickly re-established or else the WTS would lose control of the surviving skeleton population. He mentioned satellites specifically but when I tried to ply him for more information he clammed up, seeming to regret his indiscretion. I was pretty apathetic to the truth then, and I think he was trying to gee me up with a sense of imminence of the Final Day, but he only succeeded in making me ask more questions of myself about WT authority and control.
Has anybody else heard about this plausibly ridiculous meeting? I suppose there would have needed to be a satellite specialist in attendance. Perhaps the WTS have recently started their own secret space program, and have converted a couple of ex-astronaughts into JWs.
To even be thinking along these lines in a post-armageddon scenario opens up even more urgent questions like:
What does the WTS do about uncrewed oil tankers on autopilot heading all over the oceans?
What would they do about active but unmanned nuclear power stations?
Or JWs having open heart surgery, waking up with their insides OUT and no surgeon.
The point is, either the meeting would have to consider the responsibilities of world rule on-a-plate, and work up some massive scenarios, or they should never have even considered the meeting -- leave it to Jehovah to sort out.
So, did you hear this rumour?
Philo