THEIR FURNISHINGS ARE LIKE THOSE IN "HIGH END CONDOS" I was talking on the phone with a sister who switched from the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses to the Bible Students light years ahead in being freer.  She formerly helped high level members of Watchtower in New York state and Brooklyn, often was in apartments of their elete including some of the Governing Body.  Here is some of what she says. The apartments they have are what I'd call like that of high-end condos.  They get driven around in fancy cars by the Bethelites.  At least the older ones have people who will even dress them.  When they want to get out of the city they go upstate to estates at Wallkill and Patterson.  They aren't lacking anything.  This is more common knowledge among a lot of the Witnesses living in New York. The sister has good ability comparing the furnishing in the apartments of the Bethel heavies including Goverming Body members to that of "high-end condos."  For example, she has often traveled with California movie stars.  Some reading this may think "but the person I studied with and books I read long ago said the Governing Body members and other important persons in the world headquarters live in these tiny apartments without any luxuries, so she must be lying!" Decades ago except for the apartments of, for example, then President Nathan H. Knorr, many of the apartments for other Bethel heavies apparently were not so steeped in luxury.  But the sister who only left Watchtower in 2009 says with time everything changed for the worse not just insofar as Christian freedoms being trampled but also with the top officials becoming, as she put it, more materially corrupted. What if poor Jehovah's Witnesses in the Phillippines, in India, in Poland, Ecuador and the Domican Republic knew these things?! Readers are encouraged to use email, Facebook, other social networking tools to inform Jehovah's Witnesses around the world. Click the following to see some examples of what is meant by the furnishings of "high-end condos."  These are not photos of the furniture etc inside the apartments but they will give readers insight into what is meant. CLICK TO SEE WHAT IS MEANT

According to Bethelites who served at Bethel.... there are regal Buick LaCrosses for Governing Body members.....	They say GB Spokesman J.R. enjoys Infinitis..... .....that his home congregation puts up the cash	Brown's also been given Lexus
This string notes 20-30 cars are kept in the parking area out-of-sight for the Governing Body and other Bethel heavies.  Besides being washed by Bethelite, there's no doubt insurance, gas, repairs taken care of by regular JWs donating to the Watchtower Worldwide Fund.  How nice for the Watchtower bigshots, eh.  I wonder if each Mrs. Governing Body member also gets a car?  If not, at least she gets free maid service for making of the bed, free meals, free-well-you-name-it  Yes, how nice of JWs to pay for the grand life-style of all these modern Worthies like King David come back from of old! http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/174772/1/The-Bethel-parking-garage-for-the-GB-and-other-Bethel-heavies

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS' *****FREE VACATIONS ***** Governing Body can and do vacation all over Earth. For example at places in the Carribean and Pacific. Where do you think the money comes from? Going to London is commonplace. The Governing Body, spokesman Brown, lawyers appreciate the donation$ they say go to "Jehovah's praise" They can select a convention to go to and speak at So one day they can be in Tokyo........... Two days later they can be in Australia....... go to a convention then after it's over enjoy visiting a lovely beach They can take in a Bible convention in Egypt... also sight-see while there, say, at the Great Pyramid Governing Body members get some six weeks a year of vacation time and they can combine the vacation time with speaking at conventions etc all over the United Sates, Canada or by zone visits to points all over the earth.  They regularly vacation at places average people can only dream about.  Commonly they address audiences of five to thirty thousand persons, and they are the guests of honor with the best of food and lodging among other idolizing JWs.  (Source: Former Governing Body member Raymond Franz on pages 276-277 of his  Crisis Of Conscience paperback, fourth edition, revised and updated.  Published by Commentary press of Atlanta in 2007.) The average Jehovah's Witness often hears that Governing Body members get only about a hundred dollars a month and live in humble apartments at Bethel headquarters in Brooklyn. In fact they also get:  to travel anywhere in the world they care to apply for and even do so numerous times in a year, vacation time, free meals not just at Bethel but when traveling, free dental work, free medical care, free laundry and maid clean-up service, and "Green Hand Shakes." Green Hand Shakes are where someone such as a wealthy local Elder or someone else wanting to curry favor or wheedle "priveleges," shakes hands with a Watchtower official such as a Circuit Overseer, District Overseer or Governing Body member and while doing so passing to them a check or dollar bills. Some Green Hand Shakes can be substantial.  According to researcher Barbara Anderson, decades ago a wealthy patron gave a check of over twenty thousand dollars to then Watchtower President Nathan Homer Knorr on a yearly basis.  For some reason, though, he only gave seventeen thousand dollar checks each year to later Watchtower President Frederick ("Freddie") Franz.  Other "patrons" and "supporters of the Kingdom" also gave.  Probably we'll never know, but it's not unimiginable that Knorr and Franz cleared fifty to a hundred thousand dollars in such gifts every year.  Not to say that every single Governing Body is this second getting such "donations," but it would also be surprising, in view of Anderson's revelations, if some weren't. It's also said that Knorr and previous Watchtower President Joseph Rutherford also got non-money gifts such as cars and, at least in Knorr's case, an airplane.  No doubt they felt that they were well-entitled to such "gifts," that "slave is worth his wages."  Would they have said the same of other JWs getting such "gifts"? It has been written that Circuit and District Overseers, as said, also get Green Hand Shakes.  Expensive Rolex watches have also been mentioned for the COs and DOs.  Watchtower Society does not account for gifts of money or items to COs, DOs or Governing Body members, and it would be great if someday Caesar's sword (Romans 13) insisted that they do so.

COPIES OF OFFICIAL PASSPORTS SHOW WATCHTOWER PRESIDENTS' PHOTOS WITH SIGNED "OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE" Permission to post the following items comes from Marvin Shilmer.  He is highly commended for having expended much effort and expense to retrieve these documents; further, he has noted that "If others want permission to use my digital images they can ask and I will consider their requests."  http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2010/05/oath-of-allegiance_11.html?showComment=1275163037724#comment-c7903934336521385670  May they thus become known far and wide as a witness.  Jehovah's Witness children were, and in some places still are, being beaten and derided in schools around the earth even while the Watchtower presidents have so lightly signed their oaths of allegiance to go on world cruises and jet plane trips using money donated by all-too-trusting JW parents and members.  The photos are not to be altered and should be properly credited.
PASSPORT WITH SIGNED "OATH OF ALLEGIANCE" OF WATCHTOWER SOCIETY PRESIDENT MILTON G. HENSCHEL"	PASSPORT WITH SIGNED "OATH OF ALLEGIANCE" OF WATCHTOWER SOCIETY PRESIDENT FREDERICK W. FRANZ"
PASSPORT WITH SIGNED "OATH OF ALLEGIANCE" OF WATCHTOWER SOCIETY PRESIDENT NATHAN H. KNORR"	PASSPORT WITH SIGNED "OATH OF ALLEGIANCE" OF WATCHTOWER SOCIETY PRESIDENT JOSEPH F. RUTHERFORD"
Marvin Shilmer also has a copy on his website of a passport of Charles Taze Russell but it was not until Rutherford's time that Watchtower began telling Jehovah's Witnesses that God disapproves of oaths or pledges of allegiance.  As you can see the Watchtower Presidents haven't abided by the same laws that they have imposed on regular JWs, and which JWs must go by or else be disfellowshipped (severely shunned) and falsely labeled "apostates."

The Watchtower Society misprophesied that the world would end in 1914.  In this photo Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Rutherford and others of Watchtower's main heads along with family members are on the Mount Of Olives in Jerusalem.  Why?  Because they believed Christ was about to return and start resurrecting people there.  They wanted to be present for the resurrection and hoped to go on up to heaven.  If they had read the Bible better and been more honest to themselves and other people, they would have known that Christ says nobody knows when the end will come except for the Father.

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS AS OF JANUARY 23, 2010   NAMES BIRTHDATES YEAR OF ASCENDANCY AGE YEARS ON GOVERNING BODY Theodore “Ted” Jaracz  DIED EARLY 2010 1925 1974 84 35 John E. Barr 1913 1977 96 32 Gerrit Lösch 1941 1994 68 15 Samuel F. Herd 1935 1999 74 10 M. Stephen Lett 1949 1999 60 10 Guy H. Pierce 1934 1999 75 10 David H. Splane 1944 1999 65 10 Geoffrey Jackson 1966 2005 54 4 Anthony Morris 1950 2005 59 4 *Courtesy of Randall (“Randy”) Watters of freeminds.org Existing members of the Governing Body over Jehovah's Witnesses invite new members to join the body.  There are weekly meetings held Wednesday mornings in closed session, no details of the agenda or decisions of the meetings given to JWs or the Public.   Since 1975 a two-thirds majority vote, regardless of the number present at a meeting, has been required to pass proposals about doctrines, policies etc. In 2009 the official Watchtower magazine noted that "new spiritual light" (also called "clearer understanding") is the responsibility of only "a limited number" of the "slave class" (aka the remnant of the 144,000 anointed Little Flock). It asked then answered: "Are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths? No." The publications are mostly written by non-anointed persons, and a Watchtower-produced video has said and shown that they are supposed to be read and or approved by a Governing Body member before publication.  Two past members, Ewart Chitty and Leo Greenlees, resigned reportedly over sexual immorality (allegedly pedophilia and homosexuality).  Raymond Franz was pro-reform and so he was disfellowshipped.

WHO IS THE MOST "FAITHFUL AND DISCREET SLAVE" OVER ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS?
1. IS IT JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, OR...	2. IS IT THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY'S GOVERNING BODY OF MEN?
The Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses orders JWs to say #2 or else be shunned by all other JWs from then on including their own JW family members, friends and work associates.*  This is 100% fact!   Passing this "test" is the way people know if they and others are Christian or not.   A Christian can only choose Christ for #1. * Example: in late 2009 Watchtower disfellowshipped (imposted shunning against) 4 staff at the Mill Hill branch about 13 miles out of London.  Watchtower's stand on this, repeated in publications since, was first published in the Watchtower magazine of April 1, 1979 in its “Questions from Readers.”  1 Timothy 2:5 says Christ is the Mediator between God and men.  Watchtower interprets "men" to be only the 144,000 and in particular its Governing Body men, not men in the sense of all humans who accept Christ, i.e. what they call The Great Crowd.

ANTHONY MORRIS III (GOVERNING BODY) Anthony Morris III was born in 1950, the location not given. He became a pioneer, meaning a door-knocking full-time service minister of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States in 1971. That December he married fellow Jehovah's Witness, Susan, her maiden name not given.  They pioneered almost four more years.  Then Jesse Anthony, their first son was born.  Their second son, Paul, was born later, no date given.  Anthony Morris became a regular full-time pioneer in 1979, and his wife did also after their boys were all in school.  They moved to where the preaching need was greater in Rhode Island and North Carolina.   The Watchtower Society appointed him to be a subsitute Circuit Overseer in North Carolina, Brother Morris served as a substitute circuit overseer.  Their sons also became regular pioneers, and both went to work in the Brooklyn Bethel complex  when 19.   Anthony  Morris began circuit work and starting August 1, 2002 he and his wife began working as part of the Bethel staff.  He worked in the Service Department at Patterson, New York, and later as a helper to the Service Committee of the Governing Body.  The Governing Body members of the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses appointed him to be one of their fellow members on August 24, 2005. At the first talk that he ever gave at an international convention as a Governing Body member, one listener noted that he was "not a great orator and sometimes awkwardly raises his voice."  Most of his talk seemed about (1.) how to counter criticism about JWs and (2.) how to keep busy with as Armageddon gets closer.  He has also been satirized in an article on freeminds.org because of having emphasized that the listening audience he spoke before must do what he and other Governing Body members tell them to do.... ninety-six times in a thirty-five minutes talk or nearly three times a minute! "Rejoicing Over "Victory With the Lamb", The Watchtower, October 15, 2007, page 31. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/176756/1/Anthony-Morris-III-Comments-at-1st-Intl-Convention http://jehovahs-witness-news.blogspot.com/2009/11/christ-governing-body.html http://www.freeminds.org/organization/governing-body/a-satirical-review-of-governing-body-anthony-morris-2007-convention-talk.html

Note Jaracz' fisted hand gesture (front, R), Front L-R: Loesch, Splane, Barr, Jaracz, at least 3 w the special "Service Dept" WATCHTOWER HEADS, WELL-FED BY SPIRITUAL SLAVES Look at this photo closely.  Aren't they all well-fed to fat unlike the brothers and sisters in many lands?  They have free use of Watchtower cars, jet trips around the world, get the best food, the best medical care, etc.  Do you?  Do your loved ones?  In all of Watchtower's existence, well over 100 years, only one African American has been one of its top heads, Samuel Herd, who is in this photo, likely put on the Governing Body to get more people in Nigeria, Ghana, Mozambique, Malawi etc to join the Watchtower Society.  Actually Watchtower is a big business with a system of overseers getting time, money and energy from "spiritual slaves."  Find ways to let other people know. Did you know that in the United States, Watchtower preaches against working with the United Nations, but it does exactly that in Europe, Africa etc!   Out of sight, out of mind, they think.  Watchtower's Governing Body members say they themselves are the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" over all true Christians, not Christ.  However Christ is head over all Christians, not Watchtower with its top overseers.  Stop being enslaved.  Give great praise only to God!  Why not get what you are learning to others to also know.  Scroll down now to see the cars, buildings, vacations etc.

THEIR FURNISHINGS ARE LIKE THOSE IN "HIGH END CONDOS" I was talking on the phone with a sister who switched from the Watchtower Society over Jehovah's Witnesses to the Bible Students light years ahead in being freer.  She formerly helped high level members of Watchtower in New York state and Brooklyn, often was in apartments of their elete including some of the Governing Body.  Here is some of what she says. The apartments they have are what I'd call like that of high-end condos.  They get driven around in fancy cars by the Bethelites.  At least the older ones have people who will even dress them.  When they want to get out of the city they go upstate to estates at Wallkill and Patterson.  They aren't lacking anything.  This is more common knowledge among a lot of the Witnesses living in New York. The sister has good ability comparing the furnishing in the apartments of the Bethel heavies including Goverming Body members to that of "high-end condos."  For example, she has often traveled with California movie stars.  Some reading this may think "but the person I studied with and books I read long ago said the Governing Body members and other important persons in the world headquarters live in these tiny apartments without any luxuries, so she must be lying!" Decades ago except for the apartments of, for example, then President Nathan H. Knorr, many of the apartments for other Bethel heavies apparently were not so steeped in luxury.  But the sister who only left Watchtower in 2009 says with time everything changed for the worse not just insofar as Christian freedoms being trampled but also with the top officials becoming, as she put it, more materially corrupted. What if poor Jehovah's Witnesses in the Phillippines, in India, in Poland, Ecuador and the Domican Republic knew these things?! Readers are encouraged to use email, Facebook, other social networking tools to inform Jehovah's Witnesses around the world.

WHAT THE ONLY CORRECT “GOVERNING BODY” IS FOR CHRISTIANS Because of vast distances and slowness of transportation, it would have been very difficult to have any central Governing Body over Christians in the first century.  That is the reason why history shows that such a structure only came into existence after the Emperor Constantine began to help the Roman Catholic Church.   Instead of a structure with officials at its top, the original Christians simply met in local groups each of which was independent.  Each Christian accepted the key beliefs of Christianity, was baptized, and then was guided by Holy Spirit and conscience.    The Watchtower Society has falsely claimed there is a lot of evidence to support a Governing Body in the first century: "While all anointed Christians collectively form God's household, there is abundant evidence that Christ chose a small number of men out of the slave class to serve as a visible governing body. The early history of the congregation shows that the 12 apostles, including Matthias, were the foundation of the first-century governing body." (Watchtower magazine of March 15, 1990, on page 11)   There were apostles but they did not meet regularly to make decisions for all the groups of Christians.  Acts chapter 15 has the only example of a group which met to decide about some important religious matters.  At that meeting in Jerusalem were Paul, Barnabas, some but not all of the apostles, also local older persons or elders.    Paul notes that after baptism he did not go to Jerusalem or get any kind of permission from other Christians such as the apostles in order to do missionary work.  Instead he felt moved by Holy Spirit to do so.  Three years passed before he went to Jerusalem.  When he went he did not have a group of apostles or any kind of Governing Body with which to meet.  He met with James. (Ga 1:17-19)   One group of Christians did not tell other Christian groups what to do.  When something did cause irritation, then representatives from one group could go visit another group to iron out the differences, then let still other groups know how it had been fairly resolved. Acts 13:2 says that the Christians at Antioch appointed Paul and Barnabas to go on a trip to help Christians in need.    Holy Spirit led them to do this.  They did not have to send  letters for permission from a central Governing Body.  Nor did any member from a Governing Body come to tell them what they were to do.    Paul had Titus appoint elders not to official positions of power over others but to do the doing of Christian services.  (Titus 1:5)  He and Titus did not have to ask for permission to do so from any Governing Body of men in Jerusalem or anywhere else. The closest to a Governing Body was always God in heaven with the angels.    Therefore, the kingdom of God in heaven is the only religious organization or Governing Body which God has approved and leads.  The one true faith is general Christianity, and it has many branches which are good, average and bad.  Groups which claim to be the rightful rulers over all Christians, such as the Watchtower Society, are false.  Christ himself is the Most Faithful and Discreet Slave of God, not an imperfect man or a Governing Body of imperfect humans.   (The preceding is partly based upon comments made by others as seen on the string at: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/192766/1/Was-There-REALLY-a-First-Century-Governing-Body)

INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF IF AND WHY WATCHTOWER CLOAKS OWNERSHIP OF MANSION OF WATCHTOWER’S HEAD ATTORNEY http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/183488/1/Valley-Farms-Corp-What-do-they-protect-with-it Philip Brumley 131 Brimstone Rd Patterson, NY 12563 (845) 278-8138; 582-0674 Philip ("Phil") Brumley is Watchtower's head attorney.   GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS:   John E. Barr, Samuel F. Herd, Geoffrey Jackson, Theodore Jaracz, M. Stephen Lett, Gerrit Losch, Anthony Morris, Guy Pierce, David H. Splane.

WATCHTOWER SOCIETY CAUGHT IN BED WITH U.N. AGAIN Read the following for a hot discussion about this latest scandal Watchtower wants to keep secret from rank-and-file Jehovah's Witnesses http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/180234/1/WTS-attends-as-a-NGO-to-OSCE-in-July-4-branches-present HERE ARE THE FOUR WATCHTOWER-CONNECTED NGO'S ATTENDING THIS U.N. CONFERENCE: mentioned in this conducted http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2009/07/38763_en.pdf 6 Association cultuelle des Temoins de Jehovah 11 rue de Seine; 92100 Boulogne Billancourt; France Mr. Jean-Claude PONS Secretary E-mail: coordination@fr.jw.org Tel: 2-32 25 55 55 Fax: 2-32 25 56 56 35 Colloquium Gesellschaft zur Foerderung zukunftsorientierter Wissenschaften Fasangartengasse 35; A-1130 Vienna; Austria Website: http://www.colloquium.at Dr. Reinhard KOHLHOFER Rechtsanwalt  (He’s a Jehovah’s Witness attorney) E-mail: office@colloquium.at Tel: 1-802 22 91 Fax: 1-802 22 91 14 42 European Association of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses Rue d'Argile, 60; B-1950 Kraainem; Belgium Website: http://www.jw-media.org Mr. Paul GILLIES Press Officer E-mail: paul.gillies@bigfoot.com Tel: 208-906 22 11 Fax: 208-906 39 38 79 Office of General Counsel for Jehovah's Witnesses 100 Watchtower Drive; Patterson, NY 12563; U.S.A. Mr. James ANDRIK Associate General Counsel E-mail: generalcounsel@jw.org This photo shows Reinhard Kohlhofer (named in list above), who is the Watchtower's main Jehovah's Witness attorney in Austria.  He is doubtlessly dear to Gerritt Loesch the new boss over Watchtower's Governing Body since Ted Jaracz (the old "Boss") is sidelined from a stroke that paralyzed half his body.  Loesch (Mr. Efficiency) is also of Austrian origin.

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS SAY THEY ARE "NOT RESPONSIBLE" Read a discussion with comments such as how they are seen as "cowards" who "hide behind free lawyers."  Bear they no responsibility for shunning that has destroyed families, led some to suicide; bear they no responsibility for some bleeding to death??  They say they don't: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/178035/1/GB-says-they-are-NOT-responsible-for-people-acting-on-their-counsel

WATCHTOWER'S "MR. EFFICIENCY" TO BE THE "BOSS" AFTER TED JARACZ? Gerritt Loesch of Watchtower's Governing Body He had previously been a District Overseer in Austria To speak of Gerritt Lösch  of the Governing Body over Jehovah's Witnesses is to also speak of Watchtower's rapid moves in recent years from about 2005 on in particular to push for greater efficiency.  Gerritt Lösch is believed by many to be groomed for possibly taking over from Ted Jaracz after Jaracz dies -- read on to see why.  Lösch was born in 1941 in a German-speaking part of Austria in Europe.   Besides German and English, he also speaks Romanian, and Italian. Lösch began full-time service for the Watchtower Society on November 1, 1961, and he was a graduate of the 41st Gilead class.  He became a Circuit Overseer and later a District Overseer in Austria during 1963 to 1976.   In 1967 he married his wife Merete.   He was known for high pressuring field service preaching in Austria, and it is said that he emphasized high "efficiency" in all matters as well as employed "Theocratic Warfare" tactics a lot.  He and his wife stayed part of Watchtower's staff family in Austria 14 years.  Then they were sent to world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.   There Lösch has worked in the Executive Offices and as an assistant to the Service Committee overseen by Ted Jaracz.   Backed by Jaracz, while on the Governing Body he has spoken forcefully against higher education as seen on this link which shows him giving an anti-education speech in Italian but with English captions at a convention in Italy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R4f9ygxDbk In 2010 a post by JWFreak rightly or wrongly said "Overseer of the Personnel Committee who is Loesch I believe and also a Heavyweight "helper" of the Publishing Committee.” http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/193003/1/Zone-Visits-in-Europe-May-and-June-start-of-the-CO-DO-changes   Like Jaracz, Loesch is also regarded as another hardliner who thinks he has been selected by Jehovah God Almighty to do Jehovah's will upon earth.  If he attains prominence post-Jaracz on the Governing Body, it is predictable that he will become even more strict about disfellowshipping (shunning) and going after dissidents including the most outspoken former Jehovah's Witnesses.  On January 27, 2008, he gave a talk in Hawaii in which he freely gave speculations about future events, something even Governing Body members normally are careful to not do, showing his clout based beyond doubt on full support coming from his mentor Jaracz and those of like ilk.   http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/155266/1/Notes-From-Hawaii-Gerrit-Losch-Talk He has also spoke about financial matters, for example jumping onto Bethelites rightly concerned about their being sent out of Bethel in droves as he and the rest of Watchtower's Governing Body are definitely in in downsizing mode, buying and selling real estate as fast as possible to try to raise liquid cash. (At http://beehive.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=12882&PageID=80057 scroll down to "Talk by Gerrit Losch to the Bethel family.")  During the same talk he spoke of the internet and computers very negatively.  He is quoted (and said to be recorded) as putting down the use of those except, of course, for helping to keep Watchtower's operations efficient, stretching a scripture to fit his views:  "The one who says: 'Send me an e-mail.' is avoiding eye contact. (Phil. 2:4) Would a father whose son wanted to speak to him say, 'Send me an e-mail.'" Again, in the same talk, Lösch says he and the rest of the Governing Body are truly compassionate, especially "older ones" and says what a shame when old people in corporations are fired before they can get pensions while younger ones get their jobs.  Given Watchtower's laying off of Bethelites, his words appear part of his use of Theocratic Warfare. The need for large sums of liquid cash may be at least partly due to Watchtower's ongoing payouts and anticipated payouts to get child abuse victims to settle out of court, avoiding the light from news reporters which sours Watchtower's "image" before the public and upset Jehovah's Witnesses. The continuing lay off of Bethel staffers also likely serves to not only save money but to mask some internal "sifting" or witch-hunting going on at the overall direction of the Service Department in Brooklyn, both there and actually around the world. One "Theocratic Warfare" tactic is to say one thing but mean or do otherwise.  Lösch says it is bad to put "efficiency" ahead of compassion.  Also, "an efficient business voice is worldly. It should be warm, friendly, and instill affection in others. Eph. 5:31."   While "talking" about compassion he berates corporations --although making a point to exempt the Watchtower Society-- for their being worldly and democratic: "The corporate spirit is: 1. …democratic - It delays work from being accomplished because the overseer is afraid to make a decision on his own. A group consensus is sought, so he does not take the blame." So, although he says putting efficiency ahead of kindness is wrong, Lösch simultaneously says democracy is worldly and bad.  To his narrow mind, God backs the Watchtower which says it is the one and only true  "Theocracy" or Government of God, not the democracies that most of the rest of the world say bring more happiness. How much happier Jehovah's Witnesses will be as Lösch ascendancy continues is quite questionable.  For example, among the many foregoing gems, we find him praising how Bethelites bring praise to Jehovah by being dressed up in a grand and dignified manner.  Most people would say that having to march from work dressed up for eating in Bethel's cafeteria is less a cause of joy than a show of tiresome rigidity and harshness. Lösch underpins and will continue to underpin Watchtower's harshness and rigidity.  Also expect much more talk of compassion while Jehovah's Witnesses and former JWs are treated even worse.   Those who are former and never-JWs need to get word to loved ones still active JWs that you are here for them and love them no matter what.  That way when they finally see through Watchtower it will be easier for them to come to you for help even as the prodigal son did.  See..... Some have noted Gerritt Losch's big ring (see in the close-up), well-done hair, high quality suit, sun bathing on the roof.  Like all Governing Body members he gets adulation (some say idolization) of millions, perks like vacations around the globe etc.  In turn he does things like tell JWs that God (and himself and Watchtower) don't want them or their kids to a better education for better dealing with life, having more happiness.  Gerritt, Ted Jaracz and company insist on JWs obeying them, the Governing Body, no matter what.  Say!  Doesn't Christ say he himself is the one to follow!

GOVERNING BODY MEMBER PIERCE SHOWS LACK OF CONFIDENCE BonaFide says he went to the DC Convention where Guy Pierce spoke.  He felt there was a lack of confidence, that Pierce was having to strain to try to keep up morale.  Another poster or two say they've seen the same elsewhere.  Morale naturally falls before a ship sinks or the tower falls. Extracting some more of what Bonafide reports "But it just seemed as if the arena was less full than last year. Plus a lot of older people. Plus the applause was less. And even his talk he just seemed exasperated sort of. Like he said, "Brothers, this is the truth. We are so close now. We need to read the Bible every day. And meditate. That is the best education, not a PhD. So do not lose your zeal brothers!!! We must continue to preach!!!"  See other comments etc at http://jehovahs-witness.com/6/164482/1.ashx

JEFFREY JACKSON From JWFacts on JWD: "He grew up in Tasmania, which is a small remote island at the bottom of Australia. He is extremely witty and a few of his childhood friends were put out by his appointment, thinking he was not serious enough to be on the GB. People also were quite offended when he started to claim to be of the anointed in his late 30's (or possibly early 40's).   "He made the first dictionary for the language of Tuvalu where he was a special pioneer and became favoured by the king of Tuvalu who he would have meals with, so he does not seem to have an issue with mixing with politics.  "I personally think he is too smart to be on the GB and not see that it is crazy religion. But that he has gotten so far in the religion indicates he does believe in it. Unfortunately I obviously cannot see him anymore, so don't know if his opinions have changed since being on the GB."  (The preceding is quoted from JWFacts who wrote at this string: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/175970/1/Do-you-happen-to-know-any-of-the-7-newer-GB-members-What-are-they-like-Any-hope-for-positive-changes) More:  Geoffrey Jackson was born in 1955 and began pioneering in February 1971 in Tasmania, Australia. In June 1974, he married his wife Jeanette, and both became special pioneers. From 1979 to 2003, they were missionaries doing much translation of Watchtower literature in Tuvalu, Samoa, and Fiji.  In 1992, Jackson served on the Branch Committee in Samoa, and from 1996, on Fiji's Branch Committee.   He and his wife became part of the Bethel staff family in April of 2003.  They worked in the Translation Services Department. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/175432/1/Pics-and-Bios-of-Current-Governing-Body

DAVID SPLANE David Splane was born in 1944.  He became a full time minister in September 1963. He graduated from the 42nd class of Gilead, the Jehovah's Witness missionary school.  His missionary assignment was in Senegal, Africa.  Next he was a Circuit Overseer for 19 years in Canada. His wife is named Linda.  They have been Bethel world headquarters in Brooklyn since 1990.  He has worked in the Service and Writing Departments.  Since 1998 he has helped the Writing Committee. More information will be added later, so please return.

THEODORE JARACZ   Ted Jaracz of Watchtower's secretive Service Department.  Nicknamed "The Boss," he was raised in southern Illinois. Theodore Jaracz was born in 1925.  He grew up in southern Illinois and was baptized during the 1940s.  He attended the Gilead or missionary school of the Watchtower Society, then was assigned to Australia, where he was a Circuit Overseer and a District overseer. He became branch overseer of Australia in 1951. During 1955 or 1956, after having been in Australia some 5 years, he returned to the United States.  He was made a Circuit Overseer and as either a Circuit or District Overseer in the Los Angeles, California, area. On November 28, 1974, he was appointed to the Governing Body.  He is described as generally of a dark or grumpy disposition although on occasion he can seem smiley and winning.   On the Governing Body he has fought against reforms to lessen pedophilia among Jehovah's Witness Elders whom he controls as he is also head of the powerful, secretive Service Department.  At Watchtower's world headquarters over Jehovah's Witnesses, he is nicknamed "The Boss."  Read farther below for more.   Sources: w75 5/1 284; w77 2/1 95; w96 6/1 25; yb83 103-105 (French), writings of Barbara Anderson on freeminds.org, Barbara Anderson as recorded on sixscreensofthewatchtower.com, many comments on jehovahs-witness.com; http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/notes-on-governing-body-of-jehovahs.html JWs are told to follow what Governing Body Elders and its zone, district, circuit and local Elders say no matter what because they are the "Faithful and Discreet" slave; our fellowship of Christian Witnesses says that role belongs only to Jehovah's Son, Jesus Christ himself.   Whom do you believe deserves 100% "obeseisance," imperfect Governing Body members like Jaracz, Rutherford and Russell have all been, or Jesus Christ of Nazareth, The Son Of God?

WATCHTOWER GOVERNING BODY MEMBER JARACZ TELLS JW WOMEN TO BEAR BEATINGS FROM ABUSIVE HUSBANDS, SNUBS JWs AT SPECIAL ASSEMBLY http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/170099/1/Ted-Jaracz-is-not-one-of-Christe28099s-Brothers-e28093-Special-Day-Assembly-Report09   Ted Jaracz of Watchtower's secretive Service Department.  Nicknamed "The Boss," he was raised in southern Illinois. FROM ZARCO: "During a recent Special Day Assembly Program, Ted said that woman in a physically abusive marriage should submit to her husband so that eventually her husbands may respond to their submission and come to worship god. My family was completely shocked. Can you imagine the culpability and responsibility of this man who claims to speak for the Christ to encourage women to get beat up as way to encourage their abusive husbands to come into the truth.  Is this what Christ would have encouraged? In the same talk while promoting the use of the Bible he told the audience that we should be like the Boreans and examine what is said from the platform, not to question but to confirm what is said. The arrogance of this man is beyond comprehension as he has the audacity to change the Bible's message to suit his purposes. As usual he hid from the brotherhood before, during the lunch break and after the Assembly Day.  Jesus, Paul and others would have been with the brotherhood to encourage and engage, not to hide away. This man is evil or an idiot.  Christ like - not a chance.   Zarco" BY PURPLE SOFA: "From experiance, letting a man  continue to beat the hell out of you does not rehabilitate them, bring them closer to God or make them sorry for doing it......"  BY LOOSIE: "DiId he say what to do in the case of a jw husband who is beaten by his unbelieving wife? Should the husband submit to his wife so she can learn the truth? Or do the men get to hit back?....." FROM JWDAUGHTER: "The scripture says something about being able to live agreeably with an unbeliever. How is it considered an agreeable relationship when one party is being abused? I think the abuse gives one a perfectly valid out in any way of Christian thought that is sincere." (See more by clicking on the link provided above.)

FORMER WATCHTOWER HEADQUARTER INSIDER BARBARA ANDERSON HAS WRITTEN ANECDOTES ABOUT GOVERNING BODY MEN, OF WHICH SOME EXTRACTS ARE GIVEN FARTHER BELOW http://www.randallwatters.org/live/organization/governing-body/governing-body-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-grows-old.html As I wrote earlier in this thread, this man became totally different under certain circumstances that it was noticed not just by me, but by others. I bet a shrink would have found him fascinating. Maybe in his positions of authority from such a young age, he saw too much bad stuff, so gradually closed down his own personality and navigated his theocratic life happily by blocking out the human element. By concentrating only on the scriptures and the Kingdom message that made up "the work, " he in effect divorced himself from reality. Listen to the discussion Randy Watters put up between Alan Feuerbacher and Ted in 2001. It's fascinating. Jaracz comes across as an extremely kind and loving person. This is the kindly man those outside of Bethel saw, those he didn't know personally. He became emotional when he spoke of the increases in the organization. This is not the man Bethelites as a whole saw except if they were being "groomed" for MTS. I thought the use of that word by Jeff very interesting. Jaracz was grooming young men for reasons not entirely clear. Certainly, the young men weren't harmed by Jaracz, yet his personal involvement with them only with regard to MTS gave him immense satisfaction. Why? That kindness rarely extended to the general run of the mill Bethelite. He treated Bethelites like they were an annoyance except if he needed something from one of them. This was the man who lived in the "50s." It was his influence that prevents the Awake! or Watchtower to show any women in pants. Look at pictures of families going out in service: Dad in a suit; Mom in a dress; One little boy in a suit and a little girl in a pretty dress. The ideal family. If that isn't fantasy, I don't know what is. Jaracz didn't want women in Bethel to wear blue jeans, but was overruled because the work they did required jeans. Then he had to be told to stop scolding women in the elevators if he saw they had on jeans and they weren't working. He brought many a girl to tears. Personally, I don't think he liked women very much. Just certain ones he could control. This man definitely had issues! Barb" (i.e. from Barbara Anderson)

BARB ANDERSON NOTES A "MYSTERY" ABOUT JARACZ WHEN HE WAS IN AUSTRALIA http://www.randallwatters.org/live/organization/governing-body/governing-body-of-jehovah-s-witnesses-grows-old.html If you go back and reread what I've written on this thread about Barry removing Jaracz from the Australian Branch for wrongdoing and then Knorr sent him to Calif. as DO, just think about it--You don't get removed as BO unless it's pretty obvious that you really transgressed in a big way. These men in high position in the org. stick together. They only remove a peer when they absolutely have to. I've suspected for a long time what it was that Jaracz did but have no proof. But whatever it was, it was serious. Knorr should have never sent him to California as DO. I have it on good authority and said this in another post that Knorr was so angry with the Directiors for taking away his power, Jaracz was brought in to get even. Knorr knew exactly what he was doing. They didn't want him as Boss, so he gave them Jaracz. "If anybody in the Writing Dept. had the answer as to why Teddy was removed from his position in Australia, they weren't saying. A few years back, I inquired of a former JW who was I think an attorney in the Australian Bethel for some time, but he didn't have the answer. I guess this secret was closely guarded. Maybe after he's dead, information will start to flow. I remembered something else about him that could or could not be true. I was told he was raised by three maiden aunts in the mid-west somewhere. I believe he has a niece or maybe it was a sister. I know he was was quite close to his wife's family in Western Canada. Did ya know that Sydlik wouldn't go to any social that included Teddy? I was told that if Teddy walked in, Sydlik walked out."

THE CASE OF BETHELITE (STAFFER) JESUS MANUEL CANO Jesus (Hay-soos) Manuel Cano, who was convicted for pedophile acts, was an Elder and Bethel staff member living at Watchtower's Wallkill New York farm sixteen years.   Watchtower sometimes sent him to give talks in the Carribean, and he originally came from Mexico.  Read more: http://www.silentlambs.org/bethelitechildmolester.htm

TED JARACZ REFUSES TO ANSWER WOMAN REPORTER ABOUT CHILD ABUSE AMONG JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES BETSAN POWYS (BBC REPORTER): It was a long conversation and we asked if he'd be prepared to answer the same questions on camera.  He refused. So it was back to America and back to a Jehovah's Witness convention in Tulsa.  We'd been told we'd find a member of the Governing Body here.   Ted Jaracz is one of the men responsible for the church's child protection policy.  For more than two months we've been asking them for an interview.  We want answers to some simple questions.  Why do they keep their database of suspected pedophiles secret?  Why don't they report all allegations of abuse to the police?  Why do they send children back to the arms of their abusers? They refused to talk to us. But here at last we had our chance. Mister Jaracz, tell me about the database. How do you justify keeping a list of people, men in some cases who have confessed to pedophilia, but you have not reported them to the authorities. What justification is there for you to keep that list? TED JARACZ (MEMBER OF THE SUPREME GOVERNING BODY OF THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES): You know, you're from Britain. You have a privacy law. You have a directive from the European Union. You observe that, don't you? BETSAN POWYS (BBC REPORTER): So when allegations of abuse are made, is it alright to keep them private? TED JARACZ (LEADING MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES): I think you were answered. That question was answered strictly to your satisfaction. BETSAN POWYS (BBC REPORTER): Can you answer it now? TED JARACZ (LEADING MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES): I'm not going to repeat. I'll just tell you exactly and you will see it in writing. It is all in print. You know the Bible says "Do not go beyond the things that are written."? We don't go beyond the things that are written.

VIDEOS ETC RE FORMER GOVERNING BODY MEMBER LEO GREENLEES Former Governing Body member Leo Greenlees is the second person from the top in the photo here.  He was put on the Governing Body about 1965.  There is a lot of material alleging that in 1984 he was transferred off the Governing Body and sent away  to be a Special Pioneer in a congregation in New Orleans after his molesting of children including a ten-year-old boy became too well known to hidden any further.  He is dead now. See also http://www.freeminds.org/bethel/leo_greenlees.htm http://www.sitedelux.com/trellix/sitebuilder/f_edit_page.html Mark Palo: "I was raped at Bethel" Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPzGHRbw7Es&feature=related Randy Watters interview: Watchtower Society & Homosexuality at Bethel (3 Parts)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uP7UftOMTI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEup8CVDmPQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2aljuY_-M Also click to read some comments at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/77513/1.ashx

Don A. Adams, Watchtower President, whose attorney father when alive helped Watchtower.  He does not want himself in the spotlight.

Ted Jaracz of Watchtower's secretive Service Department.  Nicknamed "The Boss," he was raised in southern Illinois.

Gene Smalley is a Writing Dept. anti- reformist.  He is the main anti- emergency blood transfusions promoter.

Attorney Mario Mareno is only next to Brumley, in some ways more powerful.  It's said he sometimes reads forums like this.  If you have a usable photo of him for display here, it would be appreciated.  jmasonemerson@yahoo.com

GOVERNING BODY MEMBERS IN 1975 Courtesy of Randy Watters, this private photo was taken of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1975 upper row, left to right: Daniel Sydlik, Theodore Jaracz, Raymond Franz (resigned in 1980), Lyman Swingle, Lloyd Barry (died in 1999), Milton Henschel (deceased 5th president, top), William Jackson (deceased, bottom) Karl Klein (died Jan 2001), Grant Suiter (deceased), Albert Schroeder, Leo Greenlees (forced resignation) bottom row: Ewart ("Ed") Chitty (forced resignation), Frederick Franz (deceased, 4th president), Nathan Knorr (deceased, 3rd president), George Gangas (deceased), John Booth (deceased), Charles Fekel (deceased) not shown: John Barr, Carey Barber (deceased), Martin Poetzinger (deceased), Gerrit Losch It has been alleged that Ewart ("Ed") Chitty was reassigned to another state as a special pioneer to get him away from the Governing Body after his homosexuality became more common knowledge.  He, as with Greenlees, was never disfellowshipped. For more see http://www.freeminds.org/bethel/homosexuality_bethel.htm This shows Percy Chapman with then President Nathan Knorr, Knorr being the taller of the two.  Percy Chapman allegedly was a homosexual partner of Governing Body member Leo Greenlees.  Chapman and for a while Greenlees were overseers of Canada's branch of the Watchtower.  The story is that after Knorr found Chapman was a homosexual, Knorr demoted him to be a janitor then forced him to marry a Jehovah's Witness woman.  Read more at http://futuretruth.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/percy-chapman-leo-greenlees/