These days it's pretty clear that the JW organization is running on autopilot. Charles Taze
Russell, Joe Booze Rutherford, Nathan Knorr and Freddie Franz all had a certain amount of vision
for where the JW organization should go. They ruled as despots and marked the organization with
their own peculiar personalities.

Now that these luminaries are gone, the JWs are run by committee. Things have deteriorated in
the usual way they do after the founders and early leaders of most any organization die off.
The organization falls into the hands of bureaucrats who are mainly concerned with keeping the
organization going so as to keep their place in it. The founder's goals are given lip service
but play little part in the real activities. This applies equally to political, economic and
religious organizations.

The leaders of today's JW organization have been thoroughly trained as yes-men. They had to
be yes-men in order to survive the sifting out that Rutherford, Knorr and Franz performed.
They brooked no dissent, and demanded absolute loyalty to their persons. Often these strong
leaders would order their underlings to perform tasks that the underlings didn't agree with,
or even knew were wrong. Only those who could sear their consciences continually and not be
bothered could survive that process.

For example, Rutherford fell heavily into alcoholism after his prediction for "the end" in 1925
failed and he was massively embarrassed. He took a mistress, and made her his cook so that
they could travel together. By 1929 Rutherford was so out of control that it appears that his
underlings had the San Diego mansion Beth Sarim built for him so as to get him out of the way
for half the year. There is even evidence that Rutherford died, not from the rectal cancer he
would have died from anyway, but from injuries suffered in a fall down a flight of stairs in a
drunken stupor in Beth Sarim. His underlings like Knorr and Franz certainly had to know what was
going on, but because they thought that old Joe was "God's anointed", they made great allowances.
More bluntly, they saw Rutherford constantly drunk, committing adultery, abusing most everyone
around him, and generally causing havoc. But because they felt that God had put Rutherford in
his place, they would not do anything to oust this piece of scum from office. Apparently they
thought of Rutherford as being like the unfaithful King Saul, and refused to "touch Jehovah's
anointed".

Think what kind of personality a couple of decades of being under a man like Rutherford would
create. It is one that can see badness and abuse going on all around, and yet not be bothered.
It is one of blind, amoral loyalty. It is the same spirit that allowed Adolph Hitler and so
many other despots to continue their wicked ways. When Knorr and Franz came into power in 1942
after Rutherford died, they made many changes to the JW organization. They cleaned up a lot of
the crap Rutherford had left. However, they demanded the same kind of blind loyalty that the
old boy had demanded.

The current Governing Body members are all in their positions as a result of showing such
conscienceless loyalty for many decades. The same goes for the present assistants to the GB,
and pretty much everyone in a leadership position. In other words, they're not leaders because
of showing the qualities of a good leader, but because of being good, conscienceless followers.
Having taken such a mental set, they don't know what to do in new situations except try to
apply old policies and ideas in ways that will patch up the new problems. They've become old
wineskins.

Eventually this mindset leads to organizational stagnation. That is certainly where the JW
organization is now. Old ideas are gradually being abandoned as solid facts prove them wrong,
and new ones point the organization continually towards the mainstream of Christianity.
Watchtower articles consist almost entirely of recycled material. Decisions are made largely
to avoid problems caused by past bad policies. The organization is simply lurching down a path
that it happened to fall onto when Knorr and Franz lost power in the 1970s.

A good description of how organizations generally fall into decay is found in the article
"Imprisoned Ideas" by W. P. Brown. It can be found here:
http://www.star.net/People/~docbob/imprison.htm
I think it gives a nearly perfect description of how the Watchtower organization has evolved and
will continue to evolve. It is certainly in what Brown describes as the third, degenerate stage
where the organization is on autopilot because anyone with vision has been weeded out.

AlanF

Aside from all that rubbish and slander about Rutherford, it is obvious that God's organization has become stagnant. The prophecy of Isaiah the 28th chapter foretold that such a thing would occur. Verse one describes the organization as "the fading blosom of its decoration of beauty." In other words the bloom is off the rose, as the saying goes. I think that is an exacting portrait that God had long ago painted that reveals the condition of his people in the days immediately before his judgment is leveled against us. And, as the prophecy goes on to relate, it is Jehovah's determination to discard the physical apparatus of the organization by having it annihilated by earthly forces, so that Jehovah himself becomes "a crown of decoration and as a garland of beauty to the ones remaining over of his people..." That is basically the way the Almighty dealt with Israel, in that after the nation produced Christ it was discarded and only a faithful remnant made the transition into the new organization of spiritual Israel.

So, it stands to reason that once the good news of the kingdom is preached to Jehovah's satisfaction, in advance of Christ's arrival, that once Jesus does arrive and all hell breaks loose, as the saying goes, then the organizational structure that was built to sponser that work and equip the small army of preachers will become expendable. Indeed, as I have pointed out many times over the years, the Watchtower can and will go out of the printing business at the earliest erupting crisis that collapses the financial system. That singular event that brings the present system down in a heap will signal the commencement of the judgment phase of God's purpose. By the time the judgment concludes Jehovah's organization will be reduced to a remnant who truly have faith in God and Christ. Those who are faithless and mere followers of men, "Watchtowerites" as I have dubbed them, will be winnowed out during the holocaust, when Jehovah rocks the heavens and the earth one last time.

ROCK ON! / You Know

AlanF,

You said that full documentation will come out in several books during the next couple of years regarding Rutherford being a drunkard. I have a little problem with this. That is, all the information regarding Rutherford in the past and now are false?

Plus, people accused Jesus as a drunkard and down to this date (2000 years later) they still haven't prove nothing on it. And now you going to tell us that within 60 years of Judge Rutherford death that you apostates are now going to prove of his drunkness?

LOL!!!!

Yeah, right, sure, whatever. No doubt the reason the slanderers start speading that male bovine manure so thickly years after the man died is because the people that knew him best are all long gone, so anyone can basically make up anything they want. Like I said, if he would have really been that notorious, as you say, his enemies would not have waited for over a half century. They would have exposed him long ago.

Yes, it does describe those who have a religion but not a living faith. The thing is though, that at the time of Christ, his early disciples were very much under the influence of the Pharisees. In other words: they had a religion that had to be discarded. They remained more or less under that influence all during Jesus' time on earth. But, when he was suddenly taken from them, much to their surprise, it was a wake-up call for them, which they responded to. So too, when things blow up for us, sure it will come as a shock to Jehovah's Witnesses, but those who are devoted to God will regather themselves, taking stock of the situation, and then respond accordingly in the new environment of the judgment period.

That was also the exact situation the apostles found themselves in. They had imagined that the kingdom was going to be an earthly re-establishment of David's throne in Jerusalem. They were wrong. Apparently, even when they went out to preach that the kingdom had drawn near, they had that misconception that Jesus let remain until afeter his resurrection, when he finally enlightened them. They basically had to throw out everything they belived about the kingdom and start over. We will similarly jettison all the errors and false expectations we have been saddled with for so long. But, that will obviously be the means that Jehovah uses to sift the chaff out of the organization in preparation for his final blessing upon his faithful ones.

You are the one that noted the stagnation of the organization. I pointed to a prophecy that foretold that very condition. That is extremely relevant. The fact is the kingdom of God has really overtaken you without you quite realizing it---yet. That part will take a little while longer. LOL / You Know

To: Raiman Freddy & Lunatic Bobby

I suppose thst all of the truckloads of liquor that were delivered to Booze Rutherford weren't for his consuption? Oh! I know! He used them as Xmas gifts for his non jw friends and neighbours right?

Ah! yeah! that's the ticket. I suppose you both were married to Morgan Fairchild also.

68storm

68storm,

Like you was there when he got all the booze from the truck? Plus, did you see him drink all of it?

AlanF,

Moyle never proved that Rutherford was drunk. Rutherford asked him in the Board of Directors meeting to prove it and Moyle did not said one word of it. If I'm right, Moyle accused Rutherford with alot of booze. However, Rutherford told Moyle that the booze was for not for him only, but it was for other people at Bethel and he mention their names too. If Moyle wanted the whole truth, then why didn't he ask others whom Rutherford gave the booze to if it was true?

And regarding Worsely, IF he lied in court then why should YOU believe him now? I'll bet any opposer of the truth would not believe Worsley if he said that Rutherford was a drunkard in court and change his mind later on.

Plus, Moyle accused Rutherford on alot of things. One was that Rutherford owned many houses. But Moyle, never prove that Rutherford own one foot of land. Why? Because Rutherford NEVER did own one foot of land.

Keep searching for the truth on Rutherford AlanF!!!

AlanF,

Thanks for your insights. I'd dare say the organisation is running on autopilot just as it's loyal adherents are. When you try to reason with a witness (try being the operative word) their response are also on autopilot, cued responses when they hear key words. Any new info you try to tell them is regarded as "apostate". If it's not in the Watchtowers, then it can't be true. A mindset that is hard to penetrate.

It's sad when you see loved friends and family still caught up in the clutches of the Borg, but we can only try. If the Borg offered them much more, then perhaps it wouldn't be so sad.

How long can/will this organisation keep on going?

Fred and You Know,

Rutherford never had a mistress right? Well, I knew one of them.

If you want me to prove it, I won't even bother, because I don't have pictures of them in bed together having sex, so the evidence I do have would be waisted on you.

I suggest this link… http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-10-14/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-84142.asp …which, I believe, seems to illustrate somewhat, the bureaucratic atmosphere “hinted” about in the above quote.

Real people have died because of these men!

Instead of levity, you’d think they’d come up with a statement a little more inspirational and deserving of those sacrifices…unless, of course, the WTBTS “bean counters” aren’t.

Flip