It's like drilling a hole in the bottom of your row boat and then when it starts to sink you blame the evil water for sinking it. Stupid! I don't care how many watchtowers you to stuff in that hole to keep it from sinking. It's still gonna sink. The best you can do is take your three remaining overworked passengers to keep bailing water till they burn out. They'll hate you for making the hole and deep down they know why it's sinking but they have no choice but to keep bailing.
Then the remaining ones decide to take a dive and swim to shore only to find there freinds waiting and dry. It's a mutiny and the captain just can't seem to figure out why nobody wants to come and swim back to the boat to hear his big mouth orders and do his pointless bailing for him.
Good analogy Tyrone. To find out that all they ever needed was right on shore along with their non witness friends and family. They never had to get in that crummy little boat. It never was safe even though they were told over and over to trust in them; that this was the only safe boat; that all the people on shore were only out to destroy them. This would make a good short story or cartoon strip.
I wonder how my mom would feel if I told her that they mention this at the meetings; that she is making the devil happy. It's creepy how they blame the devil on everything that goes wrong in life. She has been making horrible decisions and she feels that she is being pushed into making these decisions; something is forcing her. The devil made her do it. I had to assure her that it was her making the decisions and she was living with the consequences. It was not the devil forcing her to do these things.