2025: How will the Org adapt?
Most WT doctrines will be so diluted as to be nonexistent except for the borg rules
Nobody can remember what prestudy was, the mags are never read, just gravely passed around at memorial time, with the anointed opening a page (but not reading)
Secret information gathering will continue apace. CO visits will be streamlined by having CCTV at the hall, group, and elder's meetings, all monitired for performance and censorship at 'Bethel'. But bethel is not a place anymore, but a consecrated computer network, which even Elders know little about.
Smiles will replace convictions across the org. 'Putting smiles on seats' is the motif, and the key to advancement. Network evangelism wii replace door-door. An interesting dualism has occurred with dress and 'conduct'.
Formal wear becomes stricter, while infomal wear goes mad with outlandish grabs at individualism. Youths party like it’s the end of the world, with more antisocial behaviour than any other religion, drug taking becomes a matter of conscience to prevent the outflux of young blood from the Org.
The Watchtower directors will become so covert and nameless to avoid court actions that they run the whole operation from a retired ICBM sub in international waters, but this is only a rumour.
The only way to progress beyond congregation elder status will be to get noticed by the network, which informs the elders the candidate has been disfellowshipped. After a few months shunning to test faith he or she either disappears from their former life or works covertly on the network.
New legislation for charities pressures the congregations to allow women elder status. But women who are noticed for promotion are disfellowshipped as normal, but never promoted.
The present brief flirtation with a policy of 'training for good pioneer jobs' gets reversed as too many educated dubs turned apostate. Most new converts come from the disaffected of society, uneducated or uneducable, itinerant protesters, and criminals.
Meetings will be coordinated by the network as now, except elders will be relieved of talking from outlines, to be readers of scripts, transmitted on the network 5 minutes before hand. Social software is used build up the scripts to manage congregations needs locally. It therefore becomes a disfellowshipping offense to attend the wrong kingdom hall.
The only duty of elders will be moral policing. Mainly this involves monitoring food outlets, making sure publishers are only eating Wt approved nutrition. The no-blood policy disappeared by 2008, three years after medical uses of blood had themselves ceased. So dubs recovered their religious distinctiveness from a wave of stringent Wt food policies, chiefly against GM products. There are many grey areas as GM has permeated the food chain, in fact the whole policy is a sham. All that happens is that unpopular or 'unproductive publishers' attract attention from the elder police, who disfellowship them for eating the same food as every other publisher. Of course no dub can openly say this, or they would be admitting their own sin.
Retrospectively, it will be revealed that Armageddon took place in 1975 as predicted, the org now pins all the hopes of its members on the resurrection of dead loved ones - coming real soon!
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