i asked an elder why they dont help feed the poor let alone give litrature for free..... he said "we do many wonderful works fo our fellow brothers and sisters around the world......he promised to send me some clippings of such evidence and for this i was excited.....a few weeks later i recieved two clippings one about Katrina in whom they gave clothes ect (later found out this was some type of scam where they were claiming their costs against insurance companies and actually made a huge profit) the other some JW's in germany or something..........
i think the general consensus is that if you are not a JW than your not going to survive aragedon anyways.......................................................... "so why waste money on that !"
i remember being trained at the door my most important line: "the watchtower and awake for just 40c just to cover the printing cost"
printing cost 40c = bulls#@t