“Once you accept it was all a lie” “however,
everything you’ve ever been taught was a lie” a quote from your comment. And this is the reason for the difficulty in recognizing that something is wrong in the organization, because it was not all a lie. Almost everything taught by Jehovah’s Witnesses is scripturally based, and not taught by any other religion, that is why they have a hard time getting out of what has become a cult, there is no where else on earth to find refuse. You have many valid points here, and I have lived them, but keep this one quote in mind, “a truth told by Satan himself is still the truth” and that has scriptural authority as well, IE the assembly in heaven in Job and Christ when Satan offered him the world. What has happened to our once beloved religion was exactly what Christ said was going to happen in the conclusion of the system of things, the man of lawlessness and the weeds would grow up among the wheat and the instructions were to let the weeds remain until the harvest. They are allowed a deluding influence the scriptures tell us, and we see clear evidence of this going on right now. But this religion was without question used by God for his purpose, that perhaps we have yet to realize, no organization did more to restore pure worship and preach the good news to the entire world, and the organizational apostasy aside, perhaps is still being used to work out his purpose. And make no mistake, this organization has drifted into apostasy, and I speak of the Watchtower Investments, while preaching everlasting life and a paradise earth at the doors, we take money from the contribution box and hand it over to the agencies of the United States Department Of Defense, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Fairchild, Boeing, companies who’s sole existence is to destroy all life on earth through Geo Engineering, IE Chemtrails which fill the lings of everything that takes in Oxygen with nano particles of Aluminum, viruses and bacteria, that if not stopped will kill all life on earth. We also take money out of the contribution box and hand it over to Microsoft, Google and Bing, the largest possessor and distributor of pornography earth has ever seen of the most vile types, all child pornography is distributed by those organizations that we help finance. We take money out of the contribution box and hand it over to PORNHUB a company that produces pornography movies. We own 50% of the company who makes engines for Military Drones, which slaughter innocent people all over the world. We are selling off all of the property, the Kingdom Halls, which were financed by the local congregations, and the flock is being scattered, with callous dis regard, brothers and sisters who worked in the printing plants of New York their entire lives, kicked out into the street without a dime in their pockets, up in years, 60, 70, 80 years old, kicked out to fend for themselves, who knew no other life but the WTBTS. Think about this for a moment, the selling of property aside, We have 8,000,000 members. If each member were to contribute just one dollar for each of the five meetings per week, that is $20,00 per month. Times 8 million members that is $160,000,000 per month tax free. If the Organization, kicked back $ 1,000,000.00 a million dollars a month to each member, that would still leave the Governing Body $ 152,000,000 dollars a month to live on, and if they cannot live on that, they need to cut back a little bit on the expensive scotch. Imagine how that kind of money would effect the lives of the flock. It shows in stark contrast where their hearts are. Disfellowshipping has nothing what so ever to do with spiritual restoration, anyone who has ever been in a judicial meeting can verify that, disfellowshipping is all about protecting the contribution box, when you are bringing in 160 million dollars of tax free cash, a month, like any other mafia, will do what ever it takes to protect that money, and the mafia routinely kills to protect it’s cash flow. They cannot have anyone uncovering corruption to be able to corrupt the flock with truths, they must silence them one way or another, and here is where the cult like behavior, and brainwashing comes in, it is about control, and has nothing to do with spiritual health of the congregation, if the spiritual health of the congregation was of concern, then a million dollars a month for each member would turn them all into pioneers.