It was the emergence of the "apostate" enemy as the necessity of instituting the need to obey the "slave" in the mid 1980's that made me aware things were not right. I was a elder all the way through the 1975 fiasco, so was well aware of the failure of Matt. 24:34. The building project in Walkill did not set right as they explained they were preparing for post Armageddon building needs.
It was not until the Kingdom Hall loan forgiveness did the picture become clear. 1979-1983 were empty years. We were even told in about 1982 that if we wanted 'new light' we would have to do personal study and find it ourselves. In about 1984 two things happened; the 'two day' Kingdom hall build and the 'obedience to the organization mantra'.
1975 was it, as far as Matt.24:34. The 'oracle' Franz could not come up with ideas that could perpetuate fictional 'last generation'. The church had two problems; cash flow, as sale of books and mags. had became taxable and intellectual content to replace Matt.24:34.
The interest on the KH building loans, remodel loans provided cash flow.
The 'intellectual content' was addressed by the "obedience to the organization mantra" in that it actually had the intent to shut down minds. I was sharp enough to recognize the scam.
On this site I am one dimensional. I only have one topic which is the 1987 Wt. article "A Time to Speak When?". The year was 1987, three years after the inception of the "obedience to the organization mantra". That article was written for a specific purpose. It created a hunting license to hunt down "apostates"!
The KH loan forgiveness provided the hind sight that in the years of 1979-1983 the WTB&TS made the switch from being a religious work of Fred Franz fiction into being a criminal RICO conspiracy to hide Matt.24:34 failure by shutting down minds and criminalizing free thinking in order to build a world wide real estate empire and create cash flow by the interest generated from loans which paid for WTB&TS real estate portfolio.
I was told 6 months prior to the Candace Conti case news release, that the molestation issue would break the back of the church.
Splane's talk shows that the church is shaking in their boots over the Anderson/Zalkin law suites. I do believe the "great tribulation" is about to begin!