Posted by AF [AF] on April 05, 1999 at 13:34:06 {6.uz.4vynMtWYktmF7cQdaOt1gg/Zk}:
In Reply to: *Opinion About Reform posted by Friend on April 05, 1999 at 13:06:15:
: Your post ignores two simple facts: 1) everything human changes
Actually I believe that Ros is well aware of this. In fact, she's well aware that this is the single biggest thing that the Society needs to reform: their claim that their organization is not run by humans. Until most of the present "old guard" dies, and with it their power, and unless the new generation is willing to acknowledge the demonstrated fact that God has no more or less to do with the JW organization than he does the Catholic Church, nothing is going to reform. I think that you won't disagree.
: and 2) the Society has demonstrated propensity for change.
Once again, Ros is extremely well aware of that fact. But change is not necessarily reform. Reform entails things like the admins of H2O have been so vainly hoping for.
: People like me are simply nudging an adrift boat (but still a boat) in the right direction, eventually it will get there, hopefully
the right
place. How soon depends upon who and how many are helping, but it will get there.
I don't think that any observers don't think that the Society is not going to change. Change is going to come despite the desires of the men now at the top. The JW organization is going to be dragged kicking and screaming into major change very soon, when a mass exodus occurs after the complete failure of its turn-of-the-century expectations. It's going to become much more mainstream. I'm only sad that the old men who have done so much damage won't live to eat crow.
: Your scenario is skewed toward those seeing
only immediate change as successful.
I don't think so. Ros can correct me, but I think she sees long term change along the lines I described.
AF