I challenge anyone to PROVE the governing body exists!
We who attended district conventions over the decades know they exist.
But if you've followed the thread at
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/175263/1/Personal-records-of-governing-body-members
then you know it can be proven EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET exists on some form of government and private industry financial, tax, DMV, and/or other0 records...
Especially "public figures" including the President of the United States, the apostles over the Mormon Church, even dictators who want their greedy looting of their government coffers to remain hidden.
One group of men overseeing a multi-billion dollar religion corporation, indeed "public figures" by definition, remain the exception.
I say the reason no ex-JW in the U.S., Norway, or anywhere else on this earth has posted any information proving the governing body exist from a purely subjective records standpoint, is obvious...
There are no financial, tax, DMW, or other official records they exist.
Again, we have seen these men.
Therefore, I propose a theory that came to me the other night. If you've read my aforementioned topic you know I've gone to a great deal of fruitless effort to get information on these men.
My theory is the men at Bethel on the governing body ARE AT BETHEL UNDER ASSUMED NAMES.
My theory is they use aliases at Bethel, and have done so most of their lives, while real government records under their real names and social security numbers exist.
The layers of blind trusts hold their real names, however, if anyone managed to dig up these blind trusts (protected under constitutional privacy laws) they would discover names of people most would assume are other stakeholders in the Watchtower corporations. However, those names in fact could be the real names of governing body members. They and their heirs will inherit the billions in international Watchtower assets. Unless someone could tie those names on the blind trusts to the literal faces of the governing body members, no connection could be made. This is similar in scope to how many Nazi party members started new lives in Europe and the United States after the war, without ever getting tied to their real names and war crimes.
Again, I challenge you to play the proverbial devil's advocate role, by proving the literal names tied to the faces of men on the governing body actually exist.
I say you cannot prove they exist beyond the simple fact we know men, whole have been identified by first and last names, have lived at Bethel and governed the Watchtower corporation billions for many decades.
I also say there must be buried records somewhere that show the faces of these men tied to REAL NAMES, and there are REAL RECORDS - social security, tax, financial - tied to those actual names. Furthermore, those names are likely buried on legal papers under layers of blind corporate trusts at Chase and other major banking institutions in the U.S., Britain, Switzerland and elsewhere. Those billions are an endless well-spring of wealth those names, their families, relatives and heirs, can legally tap at will.