I know this will be hard, but for your own sake DO NOT BE BITTER. I was bitter for a long time about the WTBTS robbing me of the opportunity to go to college. I LOVE university life. But, I was able to teach at MIT and be part of their post doc program because of some scientific work I did, that I taught myself.

Bitterness will hurt you far more than it will hurt them.

I came to a conclusion about the WTBTS after studying their legal corporate structure and their investment portfolio. Most people don't know this but anytime a corporation buys a stake in a company which is above a certain % of the total stock they have to file papers with the SEC. These documents are public information and can be searched. So, anyone can find the investment portfolio of the WTBTS. Oh, they are tricky. They have holding companies and shell companies and companies incorporated in different states. Took a while but I tracked it all down. Drew it out on a big piece of paper. It kind of looked like a piece of fractal art.

Anyway, the WTBTS makes BILLIONS of $ and has hundreds of BILLIONS of $ in assets. Here is how they make their money:
1. Life insurance policies with the WTBTS named as the beneficiary. (They encourage this)
2. Wills made out to the WTBTS. (They encourage this).
3. "Gifts" of real estate, stocks, bonds, cash from JWs.
4. Contribution boxes at every convention, assembly, special talk, memorial, and kingdom hall.
5. "Special" calls for additional donations made periodically.
6. "Voluntary" donations made from house holders who have been guilted into making a donation to suupport the "World Wide Work".
7. "Voluntary" donations that all publishers must make to pay for the "free" literature when they pick up their literature order.
8. Active and passive income on their massive stock and bond portfolio.

The expenses of the WTBTS are ridiculously small. The local congregations have to go into debt to build a KH. The local congregations pay all their own overhead. The local congregations are guilt tripped into giving large cash donations to the COs and DOs. Our small town gave the CO a brand new SUV that most of us could have never afforded. We were "encouraged" to do this. The WTBTS pays almost nothing to the people who work for them fulltime. These full time workers either 1) starve, or 2) get outside support from family and friends, or 3) work outside jobs (even though this is highly discouraged).

Now, here is the interesting part. Who owns the WTBTS. Well, when you track down the interlinked ownership structure of all the corporations you end up at one corporation which has 50 shareholders, it has had 50 shareholders since its inception in the late 1800s. This corporation has a board of directors. You will never hear about this from the WTBTS.

I always wondered how the GB could print the lies they print as "the word of God". I thought they were either 1) sincere but delusional, 2) insane, 3) part of a criminal conspiracy, or 4) really were God's spokesmen and it was I who was delusional.

One thing about the WTBTS that no one can deny, they are MASTERS of propaganda. They put the NAZIS and the Soviets to shame in the propaganda department. This is not a recent phenomenom, they have always been Masters of this. Something I noticed in reading their old literature, going back to the late 1800s (yes, I read most of it, the books anyway), the tone is the SAME. Critical, condescending, malevolent, sneaky, twisting, mean spirited, "we are right and who the $#*@ are you to question us".

So, I asked myself. "Self, how can a vast series of books and magazines have the same tone for over 100 years". There are only one of two options. Either, 1) their writings are inspired of some very malevolent supernatural creatures (not "God"), so we are hearing the same 'person' speak no matter who is doing the writing, or 2) there is an ideology driving the writers which is not made public knowledge which all members of the GB are indoctrinated into, but they do not know the true source of this ideology. And the ideology comes from a very determined group of 50 people who own the stock which controls hundreds of billions of $ in assets. Of course, these are not the same 50 people as the original stakeholders, but they are either descendents of those original stockholders or were involved with them so that the stock was transferred to trusted colleagues on the death of the stockholders. Kind of like the way the Masonic lodge works, or the Free Masons.

I think the GB is a puppet of these stockholders and their board of directors, and the GB may or my not know this. They may not even know that these people exist.

I do think that the WTBTS lawyers know, they have to. Which leads me to believe that the true power behind the WTBTS is the lawyers of the holding company and the interlocking set of related companies. Whoever these people are they are experts at propaganda and mind control. they have built an organization of willing slaves of 6 million people and they control hundreds of billions of dollars and they cannot be touched by anyone because of the web of corporate structure they set up to insulate themselves. And they don't pay taxes.

I am saying this because it does no good to be bitter at the GB or the WTBTS because they are being deluded and used just like we were.

Before anyone flames me about this post, you can do your own research and find out this information for yourself using google and Edgar. Hint. Get some old literature, going back as far as you can and look at the names of the companies mentioned anywhere as either publishing the books or owning the copyrights. These companies changed names periodically as part of the shell game. But the one company that owns all the stock of the others can be found if you look.