Now my crazy mother is going on about how our message is going to change soon and we won't have to preach anymore in the great tribulation. Everyone who doesn't hide in the stupid basement will be doomed..
This is a perfect example of what the WT does. They disseminate crazy ass stuff to their followers, and later, when generations from now, a person points out the manipulation to the last surviving WT "true believer" they will say, "But JW.org never SAID that we were in the great tribulation. Some overeager JWs decided that is what they WANTED, and so they came to believe it. But CERTAINLY, the WT wasn't teaching such a thing! They were merely surmising."