I ran into an old elder buddy recently and we got talking.
To put it simply, I don't know how he does it! - that is, I don't know how he continues to be an elder when I consider
what he knows about.
He knows about the Bulgarian compromise. He sees the exodus of young people. He grew up in an area that had
a lot of Amish families - who "looked out for each other, why can't we be like them???""
Why don't Witnesses have their own college? The kids are going to college anyway, so what's the big deal?
How can they say that the organization has no paid clergy? He knows about Circuit Overseers and the cars, paid
expenses, paid insurance, and personal contributions they get. Why no communal meals like early Christians?
He knows. How does he do it? He wants to "help people" and has nowhere else to go - in an extended Witness
family ( a family now fraying at the edges, given the exodus of the young).
When I see publishers clapping at the local release of the new Organization book, I wonder if they secretly hope
that it will say something different and bring change. ( well, fat chance!).
metatron