Pete (and others), i respect your well thought out reply to my criticisms of this form of protest. I point one thing that is innacurate in your reply: the disorganization is not because the apostate movment is “new”. Thats nonsense. This is 2017, almost 2018. The “apostate” movment started back in the mid 1930’s when the bible students split into two groups... more recently it began after the 1975 debacle. Then again in the early 1980’s after ray franz left. None of this new and to excuse this disorganized lunacy as a simple symptom of “newness” overlooks the real issues.
1) most of these clowns are self made internet stars who crave adulation, not actually helping people out of the cult.
2) often when people wake up to the truth they develop lives away from the cult and become happy living them. They dont care to have the cult continue to dominate their lives by protesting it. This makes organizing ex jw’s en mass difficult.
3) a fair number of ex jw’s on this forum over the years have expressed a desire to be more activist but dont want to be associated with the sorts of wing nuts who are activists, like rick fearon or some of those who “lead” the protest this weekend.
so whats to be done? When the only people who will lead are self aggrandizing clowns that sane people dont want to follow and a large number of sane and rational ex jw’s arnt interested in wasting more time on the cult we get what we saw this weekend: a small group with incredibly self centered motives recording themselves being jackasses who then, like baghdad bob, take to the internet and declare victory.
I continue my slow clap for them.