Great blog and nicely Put.
Its a a difficult lesson to learn that there are certain kinds of people who will always look for certain things that fit their personality. Some people are looking for the world to end because they don't like the world. I remember at Gilead a sister was interviewed, a missionary, who said she did not miss being "in the world at all." It struck me that I was with a group of people you just simply didn't like majority of normal people in the world. I think all Jehovah's Witnesses who are serious about this religion are like that. They don't fit in, or don't want to fit in. They are malcontents. All they want is to have companionship with a group who feels the same way.
That way, instead of having their stupid thinking challenged, they can be around a bunch of head nodders to reinforce their defective thinking.
There is no changing someone else. It's hard enough to change yourself. It's harder still to find a genuine circle of friends who feel and can agree with some things you believe. I wish the human race could get wise to the idea that agreement and companionship is not as important as growing and learning and taking more people into your circle. Jehovah's Witnesses and groups like them are designed to keep anyone or anything that disagrees out.
of course, some people like to stay stuck in the little rut they are in. They never leave the county. Don't ever read anything that disagrees with their emotionally charged beliefs. These are the people that don't change the world. They get left behind. Waiting for the world to end while their curmudgeonly little life passes them by.
it's going to be embarrassing for a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses when 2014 passes. Then it turns into 2024. The world will still be here. And probably a lot of people who may leave Jehovah's Witnesses will just simply go to the next cult that encourages them not to join polite society.