Hi there Scally!
I understand why you are so affected by this kind of tactics the WTS uses to further "their cause". Thanks for sharing that with us...it helps to see why you are so passionate about exposing the WTS.
This info puts a knot in my stomach but not because I have a similar experience to yours, but just because I think of all the people who scrimp and save to make ends meet and still feel obligated to "donate," "contribute" or leave their meagre belongings to the WTS in their wills, or even "loan" money to the WTS with the idea that they will eventually get it paid back when they need it.
These ones think they are doing such a service for God in helping to vindicate his name but its plain to see in the topic: "Governing Body Exposed" at
, http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=6211&site=3
the extravagance the GB use the money for. Living and traveling like the ordinary r&f Joe Blow will never see, like luxury penthouses, Cadillacs etc. with money donated to "further the witness work".
I'd love to travel to Europe, stay in ritzy hotels, eat in posh restaurants, but I doubt I ever will. Even if I will ever be able to afford it, the point is, these men are supposed to have renounced wealth or living a wealthy lifestyle. And yet they live better than most people, and even if they don't have a huge bank account what would they need one for. Their every need, or should I say want, is looked after.
Hi somebody: regarding that info from the Awakes on children who have donated their pennies and dollars saved from allowances etc.... how sickening to print that for the obvious sole purpose of using it to motivate more people to "donate" whatever they can scrape together, and then to also say donations should be kept unnamed.
The more I find out here, the more sickened I am at how blind I was and how blind the remaining JWs are today. Without seeing the whole picture we are seeing, the average JW will probably just skip over these kind of points without realizing the full impact of them.
I thank you all everyday for all the hard work you people do at finding out these things. The more I read the more I know I will never let myself be blinded again.
Had Enough
