Recently, some naive (loyal Witness) friends of ours did a
tour of Bethel. They were told about the Society's movement
of printing and binding functions to other places, including
Wallkill. The suggestion was made that it might be "safer".
Also, the empty buildings may be sold off.
The word 'downsizing' was never used (except by us) to
describe what the Society is doing. I doubt moving functions
to Wallkill or third world countries is going to make anything
any more secure, either.
Does anybody remember the hopeful lie that was circulated
before Paterson was built? That it would be constructed to
survive Armageddon and educate the resurrected? I asked a
faithful moron, back then, to show me in the Bible where the
preservation of any building thru the Great Tribulation is
guaranteed. No answer resulted.
Normally rational people get together and start an organization.
Suddenly, all common sense disappears and they are building
sand castles in the air to live in.
In a way, the 25-30 old men who run the Watchtower are like
strait jacketed mental patients, muttering to themselves about
their self exalted importance and critical position in the Divine
Plan. Every failure is reframed into some new challenge whose
purpose God hasn't revealed yet. No evidence of defeat is plainly
confronted - or even thought to be possible. All the while,
their message withers while human history passes them by.
Everytime they file a court case, or make a secret deal
with the UN or some government, it's just another tacit admission
that these are real, functioning authorities - not the 'puny
human' efforts that they've lied about.
Native Americans have peyote - these theocrats have the
'organization' drug, to continue their hallucinations of
invincibility and grandeur.
metatron