The following is an article by WPTV (May 30, 2009) outlining the Watchtower’s “The End is Near” campaign. Seemingly capitalizing on the current state of the world’s economy, the 2009 convention series looks like it’s targeting folks who are finding themselves down and out, hopeless and in dispair.  With all due respect, I can’t help but read this and feel like the Witnesses are upping their quota of “crazy talk”.  I’m not one to poke fun at the witnesses and in truth I feel compassion and pity for the spokesperson …

I clearly remember my days as a bible-thumping Jehovah’s Witness; looking forward to the End of the