@ Blondie:
Nice to see you back and with an excellent critique!
I'm 44, probably one of the more "youngin's" on here. Even I remember the "deep" book studies where the old timers would bring out the "Babylon the Great Has Fallen, God's Kingdom of a 1000 years, When?", and multitudes of other rainbow books of the bye-gone era to supplement the current book study or WatchTower articles of the week/month. It was brutal for a hyper-active kid to have to endure, but somehow I'm still alive to tell the tale. My parents and all of those older ones they studied with? Dead! ALL of them!
Everything that made the religion of my youth is DEAD, and in it's place is this......this.......farce.....this jaw-dropping stupidity filled with infantile gibberish. Silly sappy music videos, dumbass "Cart Song", and endless articles on obedience and unquestioning loyalty and creature worship of the Governing Body. This in addition to "Listen, Obey, and be Blessed!" as well as endless guilt trips to give more and more money until you have nothing left to give. Meanwhile, WatchTower is worth an estimated $46 Billion USD, and doesn't even operate even (1) soup kitchen, homeless shelter, hospital, orphanage, or do anything to give back to it's members any sort of charity. ZERO. They operate (1) retirement community in Fishkill, NY.....where the elite old timer Bethelites get to retire to IF they are deemed worthy.
Types and Anti-Types? GONE.
Mandatory Field Service hours reporting? GONE
Preaching to everyone until the final "Ark doors closed"? GONE
Mandatory dressing like a 1950's version of the Cleavers? GONE
1914 and Generation that positively would not die until the End came? DEAD AND GONE!!!
Kingdom Hall quick builds and endless expansion? GONE!! (the For Sale signs are everywhere)
My youth, my educational opportunities? GONE
Anthony Moron da Turd? GONE! (like a puff of smoke! Good riddance you old booze hound!)
Any resemblance to this possibly being inspired by Jesus or backed by Yahweh God? GONE
Any fear that I had that opposing this dumbass false religion would lead to my eternal destruction, any more than opposing dumbass Mormon or Scientology doctrine or leadership would? GONE! I LOL at their imaginary power trip. Get Bent, Fuckers!
Because these gritters are clearly just making shit up as they go along, and seeing what sticks while simultaneously fleecing the flock of every cent they have, from the cradle to the grave!