September 1st, 2012, can be marked down in the theocratic calendar as the day the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society marched shamelessly into the 21st century. On that day, jw.org, official website of Jehovah's Witnesses, went live, and with one strike the organisation put a match to its past.
Seek out the Society's Online Library, its searchable database of publications, and you will soon see that it has only made available literature published since the year 2000. Inclusion of the generic work, Insight On The Scriptures, is of no consequence. The fact that the Society considers the Watchtower magazine to be its flagship journal and that it only needs to offer material from 2000 onwards speaks volumes. Anything and everything you need to know about the organisation has been condensed into the last decade. Whatever went before is of no consequence. If it hasn't been written about within the last ten years it is not worth knowing. Greyed out dates give evidence of a former existence, but these hang like the ashes of an unwanted life recently cremated. Quietly Jehovah's Witnesses are obliterating their past as they re-brand themselves a religion for the new millennium. It would not surprise me if the Watchtower Publications Library on CD/DVD is phased out in favour of the constantly updated online edition, thus relieving even its own membership the burden of an inconvenient past. Covering its tracks is not something new to the Society. It is a practised art. However, never before have they been quite so bold as to wipe out almost a century's worth of material.
These are the first two paragraphs of a longer work. It says enough on its own if you want to comment on it. If you would like to read the rest you can find it here: Jehovah's Witnesses cease to exist before the year 2000