Quendi and Wizard - all fantastic posts and so dead on the money.
The trouble is that unfortunately, a whole new generation is being sold this same tripe and told to forego college, never plan for retirement, blah, blah and it seems like they might be buying it. I really feel for the young ones being born into this religion and the crap they are being fed, similar to how we were. Same crap, different generation.
At one of the last ASSemblies we sat through, the speaker asked how many had come into the truth within the last 15 years - after the show of hands, it looked like almost 90%. I used to think this question was asked to see how many new ones were being rescued before the big A; now I realize this is probably just a question to see how many new ones there are that can be refed this malarkey. None of these people remember Stay Alive till '75 - seems like those of us who do are either already dead, or OUT (thank God!) Of course, they spin this to say that some will see the promised new system (TM) via the 'underground route'.
So, in some ways, this article is speaking to the last of the disaffected. Hopefully it wakes most of today's young ones up at the same time, who have access to the internet and can research the 'cult'. I know near the end for us, these articles seemed lame and exculpatory rather than encouraging. They tried to spin that Abraham, Moses etc. never got to see the promise but persevered anyway; pontificated about no need for retirement plans etc., but were mostly visiting and feeding off of those who had worked hard all their lives in order to have a bedroom and meals to provide for the 'travelling overseers'. What a bunch of hypocrites!
