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  Profit of watchtower & awake, can anyone tell me???

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  i was raised as a jw until the age of 16, when i supposidly "drifted" to the worldly world (which i love) i am 29 now and have my own family and am very happy.

  in the last month i have stopped feeling guilty & frightened about not being involved.

  i have always tried to compensate to my parents in other ways, but am getting tired never being able to make them really happy.

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  I was raised as a jw until the age of 16, when I supposidly "drifted" to the worldly world (which I Love) I am 29 now and have my own family and am very happy. In the last month I have stopped feeling guilty & frightened about not being involved. I have always tried to compensate to my parents in other ways, but am getting tired never being able to make them really happy. I'm a good person and I'm sure that worldly parents would have been proud of me, yet my parents make it clear that their dissapointed in me for leaving the "truth" and are even feel ashamed of me when their jw friends ask about me & whether I've come back. I'm just getting tired of seeing the religion come first, I don't ever talk to them about religion, and they don't discuss it with me anymore other than to warn me that the world's coming to an end. I have always changed the subject but now feel it's getting time to try and point out a few things to them. (like the child molesting cover up's and wealth of the company.) I find these issues really disturbing., it opens up numerous new questions. I remember times growing up when we barely had food in our home, living on poverty line, but Dad always made sure we went to the 2 main weekly meetings, 2 hours drive away plus witnessing on Saturdays, just so dad could feel good about the effort we made, and to be able to put down so many hours. Looking back, all that fuel money could have gone towards food, clothes & other things that our family really needed, yet no one helped us or achnowleged the extra effort we made, anyway I could rattle on forever but would love some ideas on how to get them to see things without such a closed mind. Does anyone know how much it costs to make each watchtower & awake magazine? I think their 80 cents each now to buy, I"m sure I could Print a magazine like on my home printer for less than half that amount and use better quality paper!!! There must be a huge profit. I would love to hear some facts, because I know my father would never listen to me unless I could come up with "Facts"