DOC, I realize there is a down trend, was back in 2001 when I stopped attending anything jw-based. Jws found any way that meant they had less and less reason to go door to door. Stopped even trying to give the appearance of preparing to anything that might interest non-jws to investigate the WTS, didn't make return visits, made themselves feel better turning them over to regular pioneers, never trying to start a "bible study" so they weren't tied down to a specific time, just turned over to regular pioneers. Taking long "breaks," starting out later so "not to wake people up," stopping early at 11 a.m. Counting time for the time they left their house and arrived back home. Faking time. Went out "preaching" only with their own family and faking it, doing errands like picking up dry cleaning, grocery shopping. Making "return visits" on people for 10 years without that person ever attending a meeting at the KH. Writing groups even back then, one phone shared by 15 people, writing letters to family members of people in the obits, freaking them out. One time the WTS commented that some were writing one letter by hand, making 100 copies, and putting them in people's doors and counting 100 hours. I saw all these things happen. I'm sure it has not stopped. Covid just made it worse, easier for people to fake things. The end has been announced by the WTS since 1879, many false starts, and here jws are in 2025 still waiting for Armageddon to come. Less and less contact with someone in person in their so-called preaching work. Will the WTS become an online religion, I have no doubt.
