metatron,
Your comments are spot on!
I say the motive for this is money - that they're still losing contributions relative to the Awake's distribution - and it
needs to go. This initial step won't save much but it gets the organization prepared for the shock of dumping it all together.
Exactly! A huge decision like the monthly Awake was certainly made by taking into consideration a variety of reasons, like brain drain in Bethel, loss of creativity, lack of managing skills (it's a formidable task to print over 20 million copies per issue), lack of interest and the difficulty of keeping different teams of translators all over the world. But the chief reason is money. They are not selling like they used to - and they understand it's probably time for the Awake to go, but it can't be dumped in a single swoop, so they are setting the stage now for further change if the trend continues.
As for more emphasis on the Bible, I say bring it on!Witnesses are grossly unprepared for any real discussion of their beliefs as shown by the breathtaking lack of response
by the Watchtower to the explicit disproof of all of their doctrines on the internet. Get them 'off script' and they're defeated.
The WT is incredibly ignorant about the Bible. Nowadays there's no egghead in the upper echelons that can write anything of substance. So, when they say they're gonna put "more emphasis" on the Bible, they simply mean they'll keep publishing the same ol stuff, like the last days, the world "getting worse" and WT recipes to solve "life's problems": meetings, meetings, meetings, field service, field service, field service and on and on.
I second what you say. Come on, Watchtower, bring it on! It will only speed up your decay.
Neo
