Yeah excellent point. If the end is so close at hand, why hasn't the GB invested in body disposal, why doesn't it have a big bomb shelter? Does it have a procedure manual for when the big "A" finally comes "tomorrow? .. uh or the next day?.. er, uh, maybe the day after that? no? crap!" Obviously the GB doesn't believe that the end is necessarily near.
If the R&F really believed, then why have children, unless as just an unfortunate side effect of getting laid without a condom.. Shouldn't they max out their credit cards? After all, they won't have to pay it back, really they won't!
My theory is thus: I believe the GB has finally learned from it's mistakes of the past, and just dropped the whole wild speculation business. The dubs I know no longer believe in specific predicted dates, just "could be any day now, you never know when". They also exhibit a certain amount of denial over the fervor of the past predictions, as though the whacktower never insisted on 1975 or 1914, as though thousands of JWs didn't sell their homes in anticipation of the new system.
If you press the matter they will say "they're just men, we don't worship them as gods", but that's not quite true.
To me the JW phenomenon is at once extremely fascinating and highly disturbing. The deeper I penetrate into this illogic the more I come to understand one of the hugest mental fallacies conceivable. Not just a fallacy, a system of fallacies, all intricately intertwined, at once dependent on and supportive of each other.