well Gumby,
I just don't see how any of them can believe what they knowingly fabricate. It would be very difficult to believe your own lies when they are so completely outrageous and irreverent. Especially when it takes so much work and research to come up with the lies.
They know exactly what they print. They also know that they are looked to to decide the fate of millions of men, women and children. They dictate everything from how millions dress, to how millions have sex! That is a massive power trip. And they do live in luxury. Could anyone else in NYC afford to live in penthouse suites, with every care taken for granted? They have no reason to ever leave the building...they have the best food, the best clothing, the best health care, and thousands of ready and willing servants at their beck and call. They travel the world, in private jets and ride in luxury cars. They drink the best wines. don't let anyone tell you any differently. Just because they don't flaunt it as something to be proud of like the rest of the world does---does not mean it is not happening. It has been happening since Rutherford.
And as far as 'Faithful and Discreet Slave class' goes--they INVENTED it! Jesus gave a parable that meant what he said. There is no 'modern day fulfillment'! Jesus was talking to Jews who understood what he was saying, and he was teaching them to be more giving and caring, his message of love. It was not prophetic! It was only what it was. I could take the fairytale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and with some 'creative license' I could make it into some kind of Nostradamus-like prophecy of the bombing of the WTC! (The US is Goldilocks just disregarding the property rights of others and gobbling up all the oil and breaking all the thrird world economies and then contentedly sleeping in the beds of others...see? not so hard!)
Don't let them fool you. They know exactly what they are doing, have been doing, and intend to keep doing. It IS a matter of power and greed, and they don't care who dies or who's lives are ruined as long as they have nice comfy beds and get to play god.
reprehensible.
Ravyn