I read the Kool-Aid scan of April 2008, and sure enough the first article is about "valueless things". I thought they were going to all but ban entertainment. What they did do was tell people that relaxation and fun have their place, but compared it to dessert. They were encouraging people to severely limit those things. They did, however, have a full ban on college as a "valueless thing", and they called the independent sources for Bible research more dangerous than relaxation.
However, that does not mean they are out of the woods. What often happens, and I think will in this case, is that the rag will put a viewpoint out that is not yet 100% against something. It might suggest that people severely limit something like money or entertainment. Then, they have a Grand Boasting Session (or the hounder-hounder shows up). At that point, they verbally say that all entertainment, fun in excess of what's inherent in field circus, and relaxation except the sleep you absolutely need are bad. Anyone that does these things is asked if they can eliminate them to fully work on field circus. I am looking for such development of talks this coming Grand Boasting Session to include one or more talks on that subject.
A later study article in the same Kool-Aid outright tells people to stay single while young. They are urged to pioneer, go to Beth Hell (yes, they are still seeking people that are willing to waste their youth on something stupid like that), or the Grand Prize: The Value Destroyer Training School. Married couples are being asked to forgo having children again (sounds like 1969). To me, that was the one that I would definitely warn about getting the puke bucket ready before it comes up on your computer, unless your keyboard is puke proof.
Yes, my prediction that they are going to attempt a ban on entertainment and fun stands. However, they are likely to take the indirect route on this. That way, should something come up in court, they will have no proof of anything of the sort (such as in child custody cases). I now think the magazine set up the stage by limiting entertainment to insignificant amounts, and the Grand Boasting Sessions and/or hounder-hounder visits are going to put the capstone on that ban. Yes, it is totally ridiculous for them to attempt, or even seriously think of, enacting such a ban.
However, I am not surprised. This has been the trend since as long as I have been in. Even then, they were focusing more on getting me to give up hobbies and fun to make room for field circus, and I could tell it was coming. They took another 20 years, gradually clamping down on fun things. Eventually, I saw this coming to this. Whether it happens at the Grand Boasting Session or it is through the hounder-hounders, I hope that enough parents see what's going on and get their children out of the religion. And I hope many more teens and 20- and 30-somethings leave on that grounds. And, even if they were to wuss out and not follow up with a blanket ban on entertainment (the way they banned college), it is still not a good organization to be in.