Alpha Man said, "This cult has become so ridiculous that I wonder sometimes if all these new ideas from the crazy 8 is some kind of end game stragety their Legal Dept has devised in order to run off all the membership, then split the money up between the higher ups. Something like a corrupt religious Enron corporation."
I have wondered about this possibility also. They know they will take a membership plunge with the death of the older ones, who now are making up a large portion of the JW demographics in the U.S. Perhaps they want a smaller client base that can just disappear in history like the Millerites of the Great Dissappointment of 1844. Reports from active family still in is that apathy is a major problem.