dungbeetle said:
The only place where the 'preachin' work' is doing really well is where the populace is willing to die for them to have the right to preach. Starting with the free-est of countries and going on from there. Of course it's highest in the US; the most people have sacrificed their lives so Watchtower could exist and thrive.
Tell that to the Malawian Witnesses, who were pillaged, raped, and expropriated for years because of an organizational decree to not purchase a "party card" in a one-party statehood, while Mexican Witnesses were routinely allowed to resort to illegal bribery of officials to gain their "cartillas" mis-representing their attendance at military marches and placing them on an emergency reservist list; all the while endorsed by the Governing Body at the time.
It wasn't just double standards, it was a potpourri; a multiplicity of standards. And they dare state that this was sanctioned by Jehovah and had His blessing. If an increase results, it's Jehovah's blessing. If a decrease results, well, it's close to time of Jehovah destroying the wicked. The spin is more wicked than a Chinese ping-pong tournament.