Thank you Terry, I enjoy reading your posts.
It set out as a business and it still is a business. As much as I want to believe these GB members have all been honourable religious men wanting to guide Christians to the right path, I just can't. I want to, really...
Russell had to set out as relaxed as possible, as righteous as possible, as democratic as possible to attract members. Rutherford thought he knew better and it sounds like his ego demanded full control over everything. Since then it's a tangle of nutters and power struggles. Learning from previous mistakes and also lack of talent in writing and lack of new material and having to correct bad light, has shown that casting the net wider and having larger numbers running the show is a better way forward. If nothing else, it gives more bodies to point the finger of blame at.
Now we're in the corporate era and the age of where blame means lawsuits! So, devolved management is the new order of the day. In effect does this not mean that the president of the Watchtower would be responsible for any lawsuits filed against Watchtower? That president still exists, his name is on the money end of the business, Watchtower. So if say they had multiple cases against them and they wanted to shut up shop, in effect it frees-up the GB to stay open for business with Watchtower mark II looking after the ''business' end with Watchtower mark I, in liquidation. Nothing changes, good idea, hide the money, let's sell up, tuck it away and build cheaper HQ's.
But what of the teachings? Why has it gone from Russell's 'open-door' policy to full blown business cult? Was that the plan all along? I think so...
Was it not Russell's uncle who set up Skull and bones? His uncle wanted to be a minister too! Did not Russell have a fascination with teachings found in the illuminate? Did Russell not print illuminate wording and references all over his literature? He's in the illuminate graveyard, no? and as the years have ticked by sure, the pictures of illuminate symbols have subsided and they've tried to get away from the old pyramids and such but they've clung ever closer to teachings that resonate with the illuminate; refusing the emblems of Christ, child sacrifice both sexually and murder, human sacrificing with no-blood policy, secret meetings in all ranks, mind control techniques, dumbing down of followers, dodgy business dealings with parties of conflicting interests, instilling fearful, unforgiving, judgemental attitudes, introducing ranks, safeguarding and rewarding criminals, misdirecting worship to false G.O.D. ie. themselves, theocratic warfare a.k.a. lying, setting up multiple corporations and moving money until it's untraceable, to name just a few. JEHOVAH, the name illuminate use, WATCHTOWER, illuminate word and many more words. THE NEW WORLD translation of the holy scriptures! The new world in itself is a concept which the illuminate has as it's aim. Zion's watchtower? awake???
I think you see who they really are, no?
Sorry Terry... I got a little carried away there:)))
