Are these the Last Days? .. nope .. not for the Watchtower Society or any other bible nuts or jesus freaks.
We apostates can run but we cannot hide
cheers, unclebruce
Will the Watchtower crumble one day?
by JH 12 Replies latest jw friends
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joelbear
The WTS will be around long after we have passed on. It offers the security and control many people need in their life. They will soon have to dismantle the 1914 doctrine and its surrounding doctrines but they are adept at this and will succeed in new lighting it away.
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gitasatsangha
The problem is that the Watchtower is a doomsday cult. They HAVE to have 1914 or else they have to come up with some other theory that is actually plausable enoguh to pass by the majority of their members without sending to many more away, like the 1975 diaspora.
Without it they have only the vague sometime-in-the-near-future armagedon of some Protestant groups. If the Witnesses become just another Protestant sect, they won't be able to maintain strict hierarchial control for very long. For one thing the magazines will be tedious, boring, hackneyed, and unimportant (ok EVEN MORE tedious, boring, hackneyed, and unimportant then they are now), secondly the local congregations will probably naturally start to draw away from HQ as a result of the magazines and KM's being less and less effective as a control means.