Terry: 100% on the money with your remarks . The irony: they are witnesses and are mad at the witnesses who witnessed the downfall of this heaping mountain of BS. We all can see and feel the cold, emptiness that comes from this Org. I truly feel sorry for people like my mother who liked the Org because of the impression they gave her that this was a serious religious group, going all "Bible scholars" on her (she has a deep respect & love for the Bible).
Nowadays she doesn't speak to me, lives alone, far away from the next Kingdumb Hell and in 5 years never had ONE shepperding visit from the sanctimonious pack of scammers called elders. She has to see how her beloved Org became a Marketing Corporation with Disney-like movies for kids and dumbed down brochures. SAD. Very sad.
I went yesterday to a big department store (electronics, books, etc.) and saw a group of witnesses buying up iPad covers (they all had an iPad). I over heard them saying how expensive all this stuff is, but one of the BOSS-Sisters said that it is all worth it since they are using the tablets in field circus and what not.
Some of them looked really poor to me and it seemed that she was helping them with "shopping duties for the Kungdom" > helping Apples revenue.