LongHairGal
I don’t feel one ounce of pity for the ‘hard core Boomers’ that you describe. These are the people who knocked me years ... I still think this religion is eventually going online.
LHG; The real hard-core dubs are the ones Before the Boomers. These are the ones called the silent generation, (ages 1928-45) The ones I’ve met are real deranged. I met one at a get together with my jw family and I sat next to him. We were outside so I didn’t think it was a big deal. He told me he was 94 years old.
I tell you not, as soon as I sat down, he started telling me how corrupt the world was and if I knew Jehovah was using an organization to save mankind. Then he started telling me that Jesus said that there would be wars, earthquakes, and all that stuff, and doing so while he was eating chicken and pieces were falling out of his mouth. I excused myself and walked away, but I lost my appetite after that. He was probably one of those that used to get on your case.
There was an older man there probably in his 70s maybe 80s who was telling stories to a group. He was saying; “When I was in the District Work” ……….blah, blah, balh. So I’m assuming he was one of those District Overseers who was kicked out when they removed all District Overseers. I believe he’s last name was Simon. One of my Uncles said he was of the anointed.
Anyway, one of my friends who is not a Jehovah Witness, asked him the question; “Are you guys every going online?” And he said that if that was to happened, it would be almost impossible to get anyone to volunteer because encouragement to go volunteer in building projects starts at the home Kingdom Hall with everyone encouraging the young ones to volunteer.
And that’s actually a fair point. If there is no more Kingdom Hall meetings, it will be impossible to convince young ones born in to go work for FREE,......... FOR A FEW YEARS, .............to an online religion.
It just won’t work.