Posted by jimmyjames [jimmyjames] on October 27, 1999 at 23:13:10 {dPkPwxsNJE/CPYT8orz2ijuk77B9Xg}:
In my opinion, the WTS is not beneficial for anything.
I once posted about an elderly JW woman who suffers from Alzheimers and spends each day passing out years-old Watchtowers and Awakes in the baking California heat in various parking lots. She has practically no concept of time. Sometimes she gives the magazines away for free, and other times she "forgets" and charges 25 cents a copy.
I wrote that I hated the WT for preying on this poor woman's disability, allowing her to work for them like a slave, with nothing in return but wasted time.
Then some people responded by saying that this may have become her "purpose" in life and that if it was taken away, she could be lost. Some elderly people need to have something to keep them busy, to give them purpose and meaning in their life, and that if this is how the woman was, allowing her to continue might be the best thing for her, considering the alternatives.
I reluctantly agreed at the time, but now I take that back.
I don't care what someone thinks the WTS might "give" to someone. The WTS is a mind control organization. It's a disease that spreads all over the world, enslaving people, taking away freedom of mind, using them like obedient robots for it's own selfish interests, taking away their lives. It ruins the potential that could be locked inside of many young people, scars people emotionally. Makes people slave away with all their resources just to feed itself, and when they complain, fail to conform or burn out and become useless, the WTS just drops them, not caring that they may have used up half this person's life, taken away opportunities that they may not have another chance at, or left them helpless. It just uses them until they're all used up, and then drops them in the trash can.
I don't care what temporary "gifts" the WTS might give someone. This world needs to be rid of mind control cults. The only way to do that, of course is by educating people ahead of time about mind control practices. People need to understand how others manipulate so they can recognize it and avoid it.
So I put it to all of you: Is there ANY reason you think the WTS should exist?