Well, lets take a look at your list and see what we can find....
Morpheus:
Halls
what does thay mean, “halls”? Do you mean selling and consolidation? The real estate market is hot and they are not growing like they did in the 80’s and 90’s. Some people call it “profit taking”. Nobody calls it “collapse”.
printing just above nil
if thats a sign of collapse then my bank must be going out of business as well. They stopped printing paper bank statements a few years ago. Maybe i need to head to the atm this morning and make sure my money is still safe... never mind, its 2018, i’ll just check online.
growth negligible
notice you didnt say “no growth” or “decrease”. There is still growth. The org grows. It hasnt begun to contract in numbers let alone collapse.
branch closures
see my remarks under “halls”. It applies here the same.
reduced meetings
thank thor. Less time wasted, no more meetings in my house. Has no bearing on “collapse” and especially since that change was more than a decade ago and the org is still here.
Unapologetically regurgitating articles
its a valid point regarding the direction of the org but in no way points to “collapse”. It lends much more to a desire to stay on message, and allow no room for error in message. Also less staff to write and publish, be that in print or digital form.
baptising children
contrary to popular belief on this forum the borg have ALWAYS done that. If an 8 or 9 year old really wanted to get dunked they could. A couple gb 1.0 members bragged about being baptised at 8 years old... in 1930’s and 1940’s. Absolutely nothing new there.
governments examining proefures and policies
you do know thats also nothing new, right? Jw’s have a long record of court cases in the usa and have been banned many times in many countries.
increased negative press
im sorry, but can you define “increase”? Do you mean on this forum or worldwide? Jw’s have long gotten negative press. Thats why the gb has long written articles about ignoring it and not watching it. Are you old enough to remember the 60 minutes interview with leslie stall? Are you old enough to remember the newspaper articles when olin moiles testified against the judge? Its not new. At all.
aging congregations
*sigh* please. You have no numbers or reference point at all for this outside of your own experience. Local congregations in DC have thousands of young people as do their conventions. You have no hard data (and neither do i), its merely YOUR perception as YOU get older.
jj trottsalot showing the increased paranoia
rotflmao. Hes a poster trolling you, stop being gullible. Also even if he wasnt a troll, one individual witness being paranoid is an indication of nothing. Thats ridiculous.
governing body member boldfaced lying publicly for any Jw to see
yea cause that's new. Russel and Rutherford never lied.
GB asking for money outright
yea cause thats also new.
Leadership admitting they are struggling to keep up
perhaps you could share where that admission was made? Im unaware of that.
overlapping generations
rotflmao again. Thats not “new” either. Visit jw facts and see his very throughly researched chart (with wt references) on how many times the generation teaching has changed. Note: its a LOT. And for more than 100 years its been changing.
change in alternative service policy
lol one change in policy means the org is collapsing? Your losing your grip on reality now. The wt flip flops like carp on the dock and has for a century.
missionaries, overseers, bethelites being kicked to curb
that is a good one. Not collapse, but a sugn of fincial tightening.
conentions in assembly halls instead of larger venues
uhm... thats not even true. Please check your facts.
fewer assemblies with no food, no books
fewer assemblies isnt true. No food happened more than 20 years ago now. Not a sign of collapse.
In short, you have fallen victim to the common human flaw of thinking whatever last is the biggest and most important thing ever. You also have a terroble grasp on the org history and just how much this is history repeating itself.
