They are in "circle the wagons" mode now. No ideas, no progress, simply hold on to the sheep they have now and beat them into submission. Coerce the born-ins into baptism at a young age, sell the property in Brooklyn and kick back until they receive their heavenly calling die.
It is a mixed blessing that there has been no one step up to fill the shoes of Fred Franz. On one hand, he mobilized the troops. On the other, he created the biggest "trick bag" for the Org that there ever was in recent time by setting a date that went unfulfilled. It had been 50 years since they set a previous date in stone (1925) and had finally "outlived" the Beth Sarim disaster. The 1975 prediction created a lot of interest and the greatest organizational growth in history. But, thanks to the www they can't make it just go away (although they have put some damn good spin on it). Over 35 years later, it still haunts the WTS each passing day.
Like Habakkuk, the GB must be wondering why Jehovah is delaying (tho not late). Most of them are all fairly young men (relatively), they have a long time to wait it out. Maybe they need to draft someone from here like Lars or "lots of numbers and letters" who can put some decent spin on things to at least baffle most of the R&F.
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