They don't want to burden the flock any more than necessary? Bull. Instead of taking the extra time for performing other temporal needs such as home or auto repairs, shopping for food, doing the laundry, or taking a night class, STUDY THE PUBLICATIONS... er... Bible even MORE! Wow. How generous they are with our time. They had to meditate and pray over this for a long time? Pharck, it's a no-brainer. They still expect everyone to go worship twice as much as other mainstream churches. And that's not even counting the door-to-door time they want you to put in. So they're worried about the price of gas? How many tons of CO2 do you suppose would be eliminated from the atmosphere every year if they stopped going out in field service?

Ah well, it's a very small step in the right direction. Maybe someday they will all be able to go to meetings on-line. But first they will need to install a big humping proxy server at headquarters and block all the internet sites. Then they can take meeting attendance figures and see who is logged in and who isn't. It will all go on a big humping database server that will generate morning reports to be picked over at the GB meetings.

Yammer.

"Pray to God, but row towards shore." ~ Russian Proverb