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The building blocks of the esoteric money making machine known as the
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society should be of monumental interest to all Jehovah's Witnesses. This multi-national and multi-billion dollar business empire is cleverly masquerading as a financially modest Christian religion. The business growth and success of the Watchtower organization is phenomenal, and through examining the following evidence one can solidly conclude that Watchtower leaders
utilize devious business schemes which are based on religion. We encourage you to view the following video, then review the material entailed below it in order to fully grasp the fact that the Watchtower Society is and always has been interested in nothing more than financial gain.
RUSSELL, CHARISMATIC GURU
Charles Taze Russell (founding father of the Watchtower Society's theological error) was an energetic and ambitious young man. When Russell was just eleven years old, he entered a business partnership with his father through opening a chain of clothing stores. In a few years, young Russell sold the stores and his
entrepreneurial spirit moved him in pursuit of another business, the business of religion. Russell had planned a recipe for success and
the main ingredient was bringing God into his business plan. In 1884, Russell established Zion's Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
The timing was right; a period of religious activism was taking place in America. This religious shuffling was known as the Third Great Awakening, gaining its momentum from the Second Great Awakening in the early 1800's. A spirit of revival encouraged the emergents of new religious ideology, spawning counterfeit Christian religions such as the Mormons and the Millerites. William Miller, who started the Millerite movement, attracted thousands of loyal followers. Miller calculated that Jesus would return to earth somewhere between 1843 and 1844. This was a magic ingredient for Miller, but this predicted date failed and he
became known as a great disappointment. Being a quasi-religious entrepreneur, Russell more than likely extracted the needed business
dynamics from the Miller model. Miller was able to attract thousands of followers through predicting dates for God's day. Russell quickly
realized people can easily be motivated and remain loyal to anyone in the name of God who is shouting the end of the world is near. The
power of gullibility comes into play, and Russell (the charismatic guru) claimed he had received some self proclaimed enlightenment; a godly exalted position was looked up to in the eyes of his disciples otherwise known as Bible Students.
Russell became known as the "Laodecian Messenger", which was not a title from
God, rather a title he grabbed from the esoteric school of economics. Intoxicated
with power, Russell was like an enthusiastic snake oil salesman setting off to sell the world on his new product. The timing was perfect. It was a simpler lifestyle, a world with less distraction. People were committed to their families, their neighbors and to God.
In an era before radio, television and the Internet, information could
only be gathered by print, such as newspapers, magazines and books. Many people were prolific readers, and C.T. Russell gave them something to read indeed. Russell now had the instruments and the catalyst (books and magazines) to unleash his marketing plan.
Charles Taze Russell in his office
Russell proclaimed he was special in God's eyes and that God was always with him, through his claims of being the Laodecian Messenger. He was a self proclaimed messenger supposedly enlightened by the creator of the universe, successfully becoming the master teacher through teaching others how to sell his books. Yes, Russell was a clever business man indeed, perhaps the cleverest propagandist of his time. In reference to C.T. Russell, the September 30th 1912 edition of the Nation Presbyterian Weekly stated: "It is better to put an idea into peoples heads that will constrain them to give off what they suppose is their own volition than to exact money by urgency." Russell was not a humble Christian Pastor helping people connect with God and his Kingdom. He was a savvy and sharp salesman who simply exploited and sold God's Kingdom short.
STILL THE SAME
Has the modern day Watchtower Society deviated from the savvy business schemes of their founding father? On the contrary, today the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is a massive sales organization utilizing over six million people to help them sell their product. For any sales organization to be successful it is vital to have a good product and the Watchtower's product is undeniably saleable. Everyone wants to live in a new world filled with grandiose and paradisaic conditions. All successful sales organizations also know the importance of keeping their customers loyal. The Watchtower Society is exemplary in this business practice, loyalty at all costs. Loyal Witnesses will lie and shun close relatives to uphold and honor the Watchtower Society, even forfeit their own lives. This unyielding loyalty keeps the Watchtower Society's coffers filled. As of 2001, The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society was one of the top 40 largest revenue-generating companies in New York City, reporting an annual revenue of $951 million US dollars. Its yearly report is different from a Wall
Street company as the company's employees are volunteers who live and work in the Brooklyn complex, in turn allowing the Watchtower leaders to consume the profits instead of paying for labor.
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Business schemes that are based on religion have obviously worked for the Watchtower Society. The leaders of this multi-billion dollar corporation shamefully attempt to conceal their financial success and their money making schemes from loyal followers. Although Jehovah's Witnesses believe "Jehovah's organization" to be financially modest, it is only through Watchtower trickery and outright concealment that this high rolling money machine could be classified as such. To a frightening degree, Charles Taze Russell mastered the art of using religious economic power to build what is now known as one of the sleekest, smoothest and most powerful sales organizations on earth. Like Russell's business plan, the plan of the modern day Watchtower Society is to insinuate, misapply, and twist Biblical scripture to control and coerce people for their corporate and financial gain. The unrestrained indulgence for power and money has proven beneficial throughout the Watchtower organization's history. Some say the circus is the greatest show on earth, but the Watchtower Society's business tricks, revenue generating performances, and all their underhanded efforts to keep this giant multi-level club afloat is far more
fascinating.
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In the efforts to deviate from what they refer to as "Christendom", Jehovah's Witnesses boastfully profess that unlike other religions, they do not solicit for donations. In this massive elitist bubble however, the Witnesses do not realize that this is the very tricky tactic used by their leaders to receive more financial contributions. There is no real difference between a collection plate from the churches of "Christendom" to a contribution box hung on the wall of a Kingdom Hall or asking for donations at the door. The only difference is the leaders recognize this humble approach is far more effective in the mass consumption of finances. Just how much money is taken in from these "donations" and where does it all go? From the following evidence one can solidly conclude that this multi-national and multi-billion dollar business empire known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is cleverly masquerading as a religion.
Contribution boxes are readily seen throughout Kingdom Halls and assembly sites, and how the money rolls in. Since millions of Jehovah's Witnesses are engaged in the door to door preaching work, millions of dollars are generated per month. All Witnesses who participate in the
door to door work (known as publishers or sales people) are encouraged to put at least ten hours per month placing (selling) literature and recruiting new members into this bona fide cult, and every penny collected is placed in the worldwide work contribution boxes sent free and clear to the Watchtower Society.
Rank and file Jehovah's Witnesses are not compensated in anyway for the expenses incurred in their work. Regular pioneers volunteer 70 hours or more per month
in field service, using their own vehicles and paying for their own gas.
According to the Watchtower Society's own figures, the peak publishers (sales people)in the United States alone for the 2005 service (sales) year were up to 1,035,802. With this in mind, the money collected on a daily basis is quite sizeable. On any given Saturday, it is safe to say that at least 20% of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States alone are out placing literature and soliciting funds for the Watchtower, a rough
estimate of 200,000 or more publishers peddling Watchtower goods. Assuming just one dollar was collected by each publisher, the conservative figure would roughly be $200,000.00 in just one day in the United States alone. Multiply that underestimated figure by all the Saturday's in one year and the outcome is indeed sizeable. Of utmost importance is the fact that the money collected from their door to door ministry is just a small portion of the money sent to the Watchtower Society.
In the early 1990's the Watchtower Society made a major change in their tactics of collecting money. In most industrialized and wealthy countries, the Society went from charging a set amount for their literature to placing it on a donation basis. Setting forth new rules without any explanation as to the real reason for this clever business move did not matter to loyal Watchtower followers because they are willing to accept and obey any information that is given to them from their leaders. For instance all funds would now be given to the Watchtower organization for what was titled as the worldwide work. The publishers were now to tell the householders "The literature is free, but if you would like to make a donation to the worldwide work we would be happy to accept it." Jehovah's Witnesses were told specifically not to mention how much to donate but could say something like: "others have donated $5 or 10$", given strict instruction to use the word donation and not contribution. Although the Witnesses were uncomfortable with this new arrangement, they remained strictly obedient to the Society's new direction. With full confidence that the organization they slavishly devote their lives to is under Jehovah's direction and blessing, Jehovah's Witnesses pressed forward with the new arrangement regardless of having to present the literature using this cognitive
dissonant message. Missing from these instructions however, was the real reason for this sudden change.
On Jan 17, 1990, the United States Supreme Court ruled against Jimmy Swaggart ministries declaring sales tax must be paid. Swaggart ministries was informed that all tax was due on books and tapes sold dating back to 1974. Some three weeks after this ruling, the Watchtower Society knew they had to act quickly in order to avoid the same repercussions. Therefore, the Society sent a letter dated February 9, 1990 to all congregations announcing that their literature would now be on a donation basis, with absolutely no set price.
The letter was read at all Kingdom Halls in the United States and their territories on February 25, 1990, and this new arrangement would go into effect on March 1, 1990. Although the letter explained how their literature was to be placed, no mention was made about the Society potentially becoming involved in a financially devastating lawsuit, the same lawsuit for a "worldly" religious ministry which they believe is part of Babylon the Great. Once again the rank and file Witnesses were to just accept instructions from "Mother" without question. Although Jehovah's Witnesses believed the governing body was simply instituting a more simplified arrangement, the change really took place because Swaggart lost his case in court. In this spirit directed (money driven) business, this new arrangement (worldwide work) now allows the Watchtower organization to no longer be accountable for where the money is distributed. So, where exactly is this money distributed to?
All the money collected and sent to the Watchtower Society is used at their
discretion without any accounting for the six million Jehovah's Witnesses or the millions of other people who donate money to this so-called worldwide work. Besides using their millions of dollars for the things previously mentioned, it is of serious concern for Jehovah's Witnesses as well as the public to know where much of their millions, perhaps even billions, are really being spent in this so-called worldwide work. Not only is the Watchtower Society being faced with the ever growing lawsuits for their concealment of child abuse and the deaths of thousands of people due to their ever changing policies on blood, but they have also been sued for wrongful death. One case and point is the story of Frances Coughlin, a mother and grandmother who was struck and killed on October 8, 1998 by a Jehovah's Witness named Jordon Johnson who was a full time minister at Bethel. Johnson was found guilty of vehicular manslaughter, and was placed in jail for thirty days as well as sentenced to two years probation. He and Jehovah's Witnesses faced a civil
lawsuit filed by Ms. Coughlin's surviving family for damages. As a preventative measure to avoid public exposure, the Watchtower Society paid the estate of Frances Coughlin 1.55 million dollars rather than let a jury decide the wrongful death lawsuit. The Society paid this large sum of money to avoid any negative exposure on "Jehovah's organization", having no qualms with dipping into the worldwide work funds that Jehovah's Witnesses so generously contribute to. In the midst of using loyal members donations to pay off wrongful death lawsuits, and the
fact that Watchtower leaders financially benefit from free labor, the money taken in from the worldwide work donations must be utilized for something. Now that their funds are now longer accounted for, this donated money could perhaps be used to purchase Italian tailor fitted suits for Watchtower cronies, or perhaps first class round trip tickets to anywhere in the world. How about a five star hotel booking in Malta, only the best for high ranking Jehovah's Witness executives. Yes, the Watchtower Society is in a win-win situation, cleverly devising masterful business. This information alone serves as irrefutable proof that the Watchtower Society cleverly tricks their followers into believing "Jehovah's organization" is financially modest and the leaders live off a small sum of money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Through examining these facts, it becomes apparent that the Watchtower Society does not live up to their claim to be the only true religion. The subject of the worldwide work alone, not to mention the billions of dollars in property they own, reiterates that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society emerges as nothing more than a multi-billion dollar business that will stop at nothing to protect their name and their business.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is a massive publishing house which has accumulatively sent out billions of pieces of literature. This high rolling money machine produces publications that can be compared to slow doses of poison, impacted the lives of countless unsuspecting readers into slavishly devoting their lives to an organization that cares only for the mass consumption of their members finances. Considered Bible aids, Jehovah's Witnesses are tricked into believing that only through Watchtower publications can one fully understand the Scriptures. Yes,
in the efforts for mass financial consumption, Watchtower leaders train their followers to believe that it is impossible to grasp the true meaning of the Scriptures without guidance from them and their publications. The financial growth and success of the Society from Watchtower publications alone is certainly phenomenal and through examining the following evidence one can solidly conclude that the Watchtower organization is nothing more than a business utilizing millions of sales reps everyday to peddle their goods.
According to the 1975 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses on page 32, a print run of 51,663,097 bound books, 18,232,169 booklets and almost a half billion Watchtower and Awake! magazines were printed. The tenth billionth piece of literature was reached sometime between 1988 or 1989
and the twentieth billionth piece around the year 2000. The two key periodicals for the Watchtower organization are the Watchtower and Awake! magazines, which in the current year 2007, have a combined yearly printing of over one billion 40 million in some 235 languages. These two publications (Watchtower and Awake) rival TV Guide and Readers Digest and is said to outsell Time, Newsweek, US News and World Reports. An estimated 100 million copies of the Watchtower Society's New World Translation (which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Bible) have been printed in some thirty languages in whole or in part. Yes, perhaps no other single religious organization uses the printed page so
extensively, comparatively dwarfing the majority of other religious bodies, even the United States Catholic Church. But, how much money actually comes in from the sale of all these publications? Although the United States branch of the Watchtower organization will not provide financial figures, it is estimated that about 30% of its income is from donations for literature. It has been acknowledged that the donations the Society receives from literature covers most of the entire organizational needs including missionaries, branch offices, and so on. In the late 1980's, it was estimated
that the income from magazines alone exceeded $1,780,000 per week. In 2007 it is safe to say that this figure is three million dollars per week. The Watchtower Society has undoubtedly created a cash cow with magazines and books alone. To release just one new book at the yearly District Convention brings an automatic sale of at least six million books. Run the numbers, if donations of just one dollar were given for Yes, perhaps no other single religious organization uses the printed page so
extensively, comparatively dwarfing the majority of other religious bodies, even the United States Catholic Church. But, how much money actually comes in from the sale of all these publications? Although the United States branch of the Watchtower organization will not provide financial figures, it is estimated that about 30% of its income is from donations for literature. It has been acknowledged that the donations the Society receives from literature covers most of the entire organizational needs
including missionaries, branch offices, and so on. In the late 1980's, it was estimated that the income from magazines alone exceeded $1,780,000 per week. In 2007 it is safe to say that this figure is three million dollars per week. The Watchtower Society has undoubtedly created a cash cow with magazines and books alone. To release just one new book at the yearly District Convention brings an automatic sale of at least
six million books. Run the numbers, if donations of just one dollar were given for each book would add up to a monumental 6 million dollars. This is an extremely underestimated figure. This indeed is the divine business plan of the ages. How clever the Society is in suggesting that they are "God directed" as opposed to the way other organizations are financed.
In 1991, the Watchtower Society went to a donation arrangement, in turn losing a major source of cash flow. The same thing happened a few years later when they stopped the food service at Circuit Assemblies and District Conventions. In the desperate attempts to maintain financial growth, the Society wrote strongly worded letters to bodies of elders instructing them to make up for the lost cash flow. This approach has gradually proven successful, to the extent that the Society has more than made up for the losses. Although the Watchtower Society is undeniably frugal with
their finances, the same cannot be said for Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole. One example is the way they distribute Watchtower and Awake! magazines to subscribers. The United States postal rates for magazines are low compared to most of the world, and so the Watchtower utilizes the United States post office to mail the magazines to subscribers. In view of this, the Society has instructed local Jehovah's Witnesses to run around distributing the magazines. Of course, this is a real inconvenience both to
the Witnesses and to the subscribers. The Witnesses (substitute-postmen) must spend time and money doing what the Post Office can do much cheaper. The subscribers get hit-or-miss delivery of this important "spiritual food". This cheap trick once again reiterates the fact that the Watchtower Society cares more for their own financial gain than the welfare of their loyal followers.
While cleverly masquerading as a financially modest Christian religion, the Watchtower Society will stop at nothing in utilizing underhanded business schemes for the mass consumption of finances. One such devious business scheme is that of "double dipping". When publishers (Watchtower sales people) pick up literature at the Kingdom Halls or assembly sites, they are encouraged and entrusted to pay for the literature by placing their own money in the worldwide work contribution box. When the literature is placed (sold) in the door to door work, and the Witnesses receive
donations, they are instructed to keep account of this money by placing it in a specially marked envelope until the next meeting where they will place it in the worldwide box at the Kingdom Hall. Through placing their own money for the literature and the money collected from the door to door work for the literature, the Watchtower Society makes out like bandits. Yes, the esoteric money making machine known as the Watchtower Society collects money twice for the same publications, hence the term "double dipping". This "spirit directed" organization (business) comes out smelling like a rose.
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Business schemes that are based on religion have obviously worked for the
Watchtower Society. The leaders of this multi-billion dollar corporation and
publishing house shamefully attempt to conceal their financial success and their money making schemes from loyal followers. Through these underhanded business schemes, the Watchtower Society has been tricking their followers into believing the organization they slavishly devote their lives to is struggling financially. It is only through Watchtower trickery and
outright underhandedness that this high rolling money machine continues to
maintain loyal followers and their financial contributions. So, the next
time you read or hear the Watchtower Society encourage you to donate your money or assets to them, bare in mind that they are nothing more than a greedy and esoteric Society more concerned for their own financial gain
than the welfare of their loyal followers.
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Perhaps the most monumental and eagerly anticipated event of the year for
Jehovah's Witnesses is the annual District Convention. The Watchtower Society utilizes this quasi-spiritual event as a colossal fund raiser in the efforts for mass financial gain. Watchtower leaders have sinister motives, attempting to control the finances of all Jehovah's Witnesses in attendance. These bona fide cult leaders utilize controlling tactics, realizing that the less money their members spend while attending the District Convention, the more money they will insert in the contribution boxes. As you will see from the following evidence, Watchtower leaders stop at nothing in their efforts for mass financial consumption.
Before we discuss the infamous parking lot scandal, it is important to review every aspect in which Watchtower leaders control the finances of their followers at District Conventions. All of the tactics used are masterfully and carefully orchestrated to convince Jehovah's Witnesses to place more money into the contribution boxes.
Watchtower leaders guarantee local
hotels that their facilities will be filled
at District Convention time; therefore,
these lodging facilities offer discounts
to the Witnesses. Jehovah's Witnesses
are given strict instruction to stay at
the lodging on the list.
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Notice how cleverly the Watchtower
Society insinuates that violating their
lodging rules brings reproach upon
God. This is the devious tactic they use to conceal their underhanded intentions. The less money loyal followers spend on lodging, the more money they put into the contribution boxes.
All those attending the District Convention are also discouraged from buying food and drinks from vendors around the convention site; Witnesses are encouraged to brown bag their lunches and to eat it on the convention site. The convention attendees are emphatically told to be at all sessions and it is redundantly stated to get to bed early so they will be well rested for the following day of spiritual food. All of these strict
instructions given by Watchtower leaders have a common devious thread. This multi-national and multi-billion dollar business empire utilizes clever and manipulative tactics to retain loyal members and their financial contributions.
The average amount of money generated from District Conventions is estimated at about $15-20.00 per attendee. The money sent to Watchtower big wigs is tax free, and is sent after all expenses have been paid. With more than one million Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States alone, the money sent to the Society from District Conventions would average out to roughly 15-20 million dollars. Perhaps the most predominant in the Watchtower Society's efforts for mass financial consumption is generated through charging the Witnesses for parking their vehicles at District Conventions. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses who attended the District Assembly in Amherst Massachusetts purchased parking tickets in advance from the local Kingdom Halls for about two dollars a day. However, these prepaid parking tickets reserved a parking space in a field adjacent to the site, not on the site. It is transparently obvious that the Society seized another opportunity for mass financial
gain. If roughly 5,000 were in attendance, and perhaps 2,000 car groups purchased prepaid tickets, that averages out to an extra $4000.00 sent to the Society for this District Convention alone. Watchtower leaders utilize the "prepaid parking ticket scheme" at many District Conventions.
Perhaps the most notorious in the Watchtower Society's "prepaid parking ticket scheme" occurred at the District Convention in Tacoma Washington. A number of years ago, the Society was caught red handed for charging Jehovah's Witnesses for prepaid parking for the District Convention in which the parking was already included in the rental fee. The Watchtower Society deviously pocketed the money from unsuspecting Jehovah's
Witnesses who had no clue what the rental agreement truly entailed. Watchtower leaders had previously negotiated with Tacoma city officials and established that parking lot fees would not be charged to the Witnesses in attendance. However, the Watchtower Society sent letters to the elders within the local congregations instructing them to sell parking tickets for about four dollars a piece; an outright deceptive scam considering what the Society had previously arranged. The few elders
who knew about the money making scam were given strict instruction to keep this information hidden from the Jehovah's Witness community and the Tacoma city officials. If it weren't for one former Jehovah's Witness exposing this deceptive act from the Watchtower Society, many would have never known about it. Negotiation of rental contracts for public meeting places such as District Conventions is an art, and the Watchtower Society is masterful in this business dealing. Watchtower leaders
know how to drain every last penny from city officials.
Although Jehovah's Witnesses firmly believe that Watchtower leaders are concerned for them as individuals, the devious District Convention scandals alone should raise a red flag and embed doubts in the organization they slavishly devote their lives to. It is transparently obvious that the Watchtower Society is far more concerned with the consumption of mass financial gain through underhanded business schemes than the spiritual welfare of their followers.
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