I left in January of 97 and I havent seen ONE THING happen to the Borg that would indicate that anything positive at all has happened with them or to them since that time. I see NO real growth. I see more and more people online here escaping like fugitives from Alcatraz. I have seen the Borg change their stand on Blood and the sanctions for taking blood and Ive seen them write and rewrite their "truth" to suit their failing prophecies. They are trying to draw people in by naming conventions and convention halls "Christian" type names that would imply to those who thought otherwise, that JWs ARE Christians. Like "Follow the Christ" (when they dont even BAPTIZE anyone in his name!) or "The West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center"....to make them appear to be "normal". Its a spider, a web and a fly.
They were already cutting back things when I left, not charging for the literature at the door but asking for a donation. The Generation had just changed in 95 again. They try desperately to shore up the failing membership numbers....letting people report 15 minutes of time if they wanted to which would of course increase the number of publishers. Counting people who are just approved associates as members, counting inactive ones, counting anything that would stand still long enough to be counted....when the reality was that their developed nation statistics were dropping like hot rocks and the only growth was in underdeveloped third world countries who hadnt found out the lies yet.
They re-studied the Revelation book what four times now? So they dont have to come up with a new one...and what is the Revelation Book except for one loooong piece of propaganda about the Borg?
They stopped delivery of magazines to homes. What better way to 1) save money and 2) get people to come to the hall to get their literature there...if by then they cared anyway. They are printing in paperback now.
They started campaigns to try to dredge up OLD members who stopped coming because the NEW members totally dried up by having shepardhing calls to inactive ones....people the elders didnt give a shit about until they were forced to. The only people getting baptized any more were weary kids of existing JWs who were mostly forced to do it. I read on here lately there are whole conventions with NO baptizees but they gave the talk anyway which is pathetic.
They stopped food service at conventions, then stopped bringing it in to sell it, then started asking people to bring their own and told them they couldnt leave the grounds to go eat elsewhere...which meant a lot of people LEFT at lunch time who didnt come back to hear more mindless endless drivel.
Attendance at ALL meetings and ALL conventions is in the crapper and they know it.
Theres noone to finance and upkeep halls any more and the sheep are getting poorer and sadder and most of them are on anti-depressants. So they sell two or three halls and make one mega hall to house them all and call that proof of Jehovahs blessing?
Now they cut back again on the number of magazines printed and are combining meetings and selling off NY property.
Yep....its going like a bad accident in slow motion...but its impetice is unstoppably down hill.
And did I mention the pedophile scandal? The UN scandal? and who knows what else will surface soon thanks to the world wide WONDERFUL web!!
