Posted by N.H. [Pravo] on November 17, 1999 at 00:06:24 {xx2d.1sWpQMNeo5UWiLAX.sgIvMbfw}:
In Reply to: The future of the WTS posted by Seeker on November 16, 1999 at 18:44:24:
Hi Seeker,
The generation change is no doubt the single most serious problem for most Witnesses who have been around for a while. This was the last “time carrot” the Watchtower Society had in its arsenal. Now everything really hangs in the air, and that is a situation that is impossible for Brooklyn to live with in the long run.
The Watchtower organization is completely geared and devoted to the imminence of the “end”. There seem to be a lot of people in the organization who still cling to the generation idea. In spite of the articles in the Watchtower and Awake!, about entering the next millennium doesn’t “mean anything” many want to bide their time to be on the safe side.
I think that when we write 2002 we will se a steady exodus of disillusioned people from the Watchtower Society. Psychologically this will make dates like 1914, and 1918 seem more and more comic. Ranting about assemblies in Cedar Point in 1918 and 1922, will come to be considered a bad joke.
It is indeed sad to watch the whole circus carry on. The tragedy started already in the Bible, with people like Jesus and Paul, steeped to the gills in all kinds of superstition believed that some “end” was imminent. As usual none of their expectations materialized and countless hours and effort has been made to explain away or find explanations of why nothing happened. It is both comic and tragic that people now 2000 years later still engage in the same self-delusions.
Failing to understand that when Paul was ranting to his followers about the imminence of the “end” and how they didn’t have time to live a normal life, he was sadly mistaken and both he and his followers died after having wasted their lives pursuing a lie.
Instead of learning from this very illustrating and simple example of the results of self delusion and the sad effects thereof, they actually start to repeat the idiocy and tell people to follow Paul’s insane experiment almost 2000 years ago. The insanities don’t seem to have an end. As long as people unthinking and uncritically just keep on following a course based on old tales and superstition how can we expect them to ever be free individuals?
Norm.