I love Jehovah's organization. It's the best there currently is in modern day Christiandom. I say that while not fully trusting in the GB. I take what they say with a grain of salt, I pray about it and study it myself. All mature Christian's can access Jehovah's channel. But we have to stay diligent in our studying of God's words. With everything at our fingertips. It's easier than ever. All kinds of discourse should be had with no limits. Iron sharpens iron and when left unchallenged, you become dull and start to form rust. If we can't even bother to hear what opposing views think, how are we supposed to convince them that we are the truth. Sometimes the Shepherd has to travel on dangerous terrain to reach the sheep and bring it over to the flock. If we aren't able to do that we aren't considering the dangerous journeys that the apostle Paul took just to gather more sheep.
According to that video. We shouldn't go to that gym. Too many worldly people there that are wearing revealing gym clothing and wearing political MAGA gear when working out. Well, looks like I'll have to cancel my gym membership. If you are living in Bethel for decades you might think that way, being out of touch with the rest of the world that we have no choice but to live in. Most people don't even talk at the gym anymore when they all have ear buds in, listening to music or podcasts as they exercise.
I never loved Jehovah’s organisation. I appreciate and appreciated the value of what was taught me back then. But it proved a deceit. It was disguised as truth but bore its likeness. And that likeness has proved to be the foil by which the standard of the truth is established for those that seek it. Ergo, the truth about the lie that pretends to the truth. The watchtower I found through study represents man’s loss of integrity to the truth and for all that is under satanic influence. They picture all that is unfaithful in service to Jehovah and critically, why that is so, both in governance of their “shepherd’s” and in their treatment of Jehovah’s purpose and love for those people who seek him. Why anyone who would declare a love for that undeniable behaviour of theirs is beyond reasoning. But then, it is a good example of just how deaf and blind people can be when their ears are tickled with what they want to hear. After all, it demands no more of them than simply to follow in the belief that they are “okay” with Jehovah.
As for Roberts site - I appreciate it. It’s hard to love an information bureau, but what it inspires is something else, but that is all down to what study and appreciation of the unvarnished truth teaches the individual who “
makes it their own.”
You say that watchtower is “currently the best there is.” One might ask what your measuring stick is? If there was a better way to explain the truth, would you not go there? We do not study the bible to make friends, we make the study to find our creator, not friends. Friends are an extension of love for Jehovah, in that they share our own fact based faith - and it is fact based, because and only because it stands up to the test of faith. That which is settled and tested within the heart. That is the key to true friendship amongst believers in Jehovah. There will come a time for many of us that we must say goodbye to those we love because the truth is not in them. Thus our faith is first and foremost. Not our relationships with each other.
While watchtower struggles to advise about which gym to attend lest we be disturbed by revealing dress codes, those who are seeking Jehovah have their own conscience to decide that for themselves because the bible teaches them the values of what “love” actually entails. Flesh was never the thinking man’s cause for love. It’s sad that watchtower governance is still at the potty training level of adolescence, but then, should we expect anything more from them?
Why should we listen to the opposer’s view? If they have something of note to say, then yes, by all means, but then the responsibility to act upon what we learn is down to us. That demands action based upon the values of what is learnt. A true shepherd does not have to walk over dangerous terrain to gather his sheep. He leads his sheep instead to green pastures and fresh clean streams of water. If one strays, it is not for want of green pastures and water, but of a desire to be elsewhere because the clean conditions are not wanted. The shepherd, out of love will go after that one, it’s true, but why, we must ask, are the others he leaves behind safe? It is that they recognise what is clean and healthy. Watchtower do the opposite. Those that speak up for the hard truth and narrow road are abandoned and not listened to. Those that believe the rough ground and sour water is for them, are welcomed to dine on the fare it offers though. Odd, is it not, that watchtower does so.
We are not shepherds, but sheep first. It is we who must first decide to follow the shepherd in your analogy. Jesus goes after us. Those that teach, teach his shepherding ways - and they are few and to be valued for their given assignment. But they must prove true to it. That’s where our appreciation is, in that line of descent from the One whom was sent for our salvation. It is up to us then to choose our shepherd well, lest we are deceived. If you cannot have faith in the GB, then clearly something is wrong. If it’s not in the bible, then there is a problem.
It is rather humorous, on the one hand, Bethel pretends that e-watchman does not exist. But they cannot resist the urge to cast this non-existent wanna-be prophet as the Devil. 
