I suggest the organisation is now at the point where it can promote pretty much anything and the followers will follow. Especially if there is a fringe benefit.
The current blood fraction teaching is totally acceptable to the average JW. Why wouldn't it be? Now they can push the limits and still be acceptable to Jehovah cos the GB says so. We can kinda have blood - cool.
I suspect there are a number of active JW's who's lives are not quite in harmony with God's requirements. Such ones must live in fear of God's great day. Pushing it further into the future allows time to pass and for sins to fade into the past.
I've mentioned things to active JW's in the past and have been put down as a looney only to be proven otherwise when the truth is revealed. The cancellation of the book study arrangement is a classic example which was revealed on this forum well in advance of the official announcement. The general response from the actives was "no way" "it's the most important meeting of the week" "it may be the only way we can meet in the great tribulation" but low and behold the BS was cancelled.
The same goes with the Generation teaching. It can be changed as much as you like and the followers of men will continue to follow men.
I think it's part of they way some people think and the way they are easily programmed. Look at Heavens Gate and Jonestown for example.
Whatever the WTS serves next, the followers will scoff.
I wonder if there is a personality profile associated with converts. Those born in dont really have a choice. But those who are of sound mind (and that's a point worth making) who are perhaps 30 to 40 years of age and decide to become a JW must have certain personality attributes that lend well to the seduction of the orgainsation. I think my mother certainly did but I'm not entirely sure she was of sound mind.
I may start a new thread on that very subject.
In summary, I agree, the generation teaching is no big deal. If anything, it's proof that the channel is blessed once more as a result of direct communication with Jehovah. That's all the avid JW student needs. On the contrary, the average half-hearted JW (which accounts for approx. 50% of congregations) doesn't care or doesn't even realise there has been a change.
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