@@DarthMagoghello dark lord, last year Australia sent 172 million to the USA for the year of 2023 keeping 26 million for running costs. With 71,188-Ministers who teach the Bible; 726-Congregations; dont forget the millions in shares.
As a former altar boy I was astonished at how much money, property and gold the Catholic Church has and yet the old priest at my Church was always bugging the congregation for more, while carrying a solid gold cross ( which was locked in an old bank vault in the Church basement) The hypocrisy and greed on display were some of the first reasons I decided to leave.
You know, I respect that. Ever heard that song "Hell's Coming With Me?" By Poor Man's Poison? That's what I think of when I think of these churches praying on communities the way they do without giving back.
Must have been the specific Church. I’m Roman Catholic, and the Church that I go to doesn’t talk about money; of course, different Priests talk differently about money. Have you tried a different Congregation?
Loved the intro, Magog! Another Apostate-tuber called JW Thoughts made a video on how Watchtower is trying to shut down his channel for criticizing them. We should support him as best we can. These guys are scary!
Ex-Mormons are also known to gripe about how rich the Mormon leadership is, while requiring their members to tithe, tithe, tithe, and tithe some more! It infuriates me!
Love the intro scene! I hope one day that the organization itself (not the individual members who were tricked/raised into following it) is completely broke and penniless, and all that money goes to help the people they stepped all over.
Thank you for your videos, I am someone who has grown up with some of my family members who tried to brainwash me into JW ever since I was little, your videos help see clearly and I have also grown up going to different denominations and now I’m just non-denomination
The part about taxes made me think of that Joker quote from BTAS: "I may be crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? No thank you!" Very fitting the line's from a villain.
Brilliant! As always! Thank you for all your hard work. You are my hero for putting yourself through all this so that people like me can feel validated and supported. You are always clear, concise, accurate, and, above all, you don't bash the jw rank and file. Your hatred and disgust of the governing body is palpable. As is mine. You put the blame exactly in the right place. The fact that you don't laugh at current members really makes your channel a safe space. I have family that are still jw, and it's not funny. They are not jokes to be laughed at. They are victims of the governing body too. They just don't know it yet. You soothe my soul with your honesty and compassion.
Happy to help! I figure, if you're gonna punch, punch up. And the Governing Body has stolen so much from us, and our loved ones still stuck in the Watchtower, it's time we get them back. One exposé at a time!
There is also WHO is trusted to have access to those funds...there was a rumour that some funds were stolen by a high ranking ĺeader who kept the status after being caught.
Well done Darth, I hope that eventually all the holdings are sold off to pay the strong survivors of this evil empire. Love to all the hurt or hurting ❤❤
I wasted so much money giving them donations. I felt that I had to so I could get baptized. The elders wouldn't let me get baptized! I'm so disappointed in the North Parkersburg congregation in Parkersburg West Virginia. Fake love!
Love the work Darth Magog. I was never a JW but I am still fascinated by what you do. Must be the Dark Side at work! Complete tangent, but what was the game used in the intro?
But you see, the leaders need that money, they really do, to buy a private jet...to spread the good news, of course! It's 100% absolutely positively definitely totally not exploitation and greed!
Hear out on this, but I'm surprised how much I enjoy this channel. Not because it's shitting on the Watchtower (we need more of that) but because I never liked star wars. Hated it for years just because of the Jedi oath thing, but I can get behind this. The acting is fantastic, and the visuals are S-tier, especially given how this is a small studio. My favorite episodes are the ones where they take down the Calab and sofia episodes. The amount of research is S-tier. Overall I feel this is what StarWars feels to those who like the movies.
Aang you just made my day buddy! We've been learning a lot in audacity and premiere and a few other programs, so it means a lot to learn that all our hard work is paying off!
Thank you for the information on the Watchtower, Lord Magog! Honestly, it's ridiculous how much money they have and I really wish it was put to good use instead of just sitting around in the pockets of those who protect child predators and other abusers.
Ah, glad you like them. Ironically they actually take a little longer to shoot and edit than the rest of the video (even with our minimal Special Effects) so that's comforting to hear that they're worth it :)
Absolutely true. I confirmed WT leaders made shady deals giving the seller of a property full payment but causing the tax liability to look very low to avoid taxes. A lower sales price will save the seller a lot of capital gain tax. WT can take the tax hit due to non profit status and regions status.
Nasty trick. I guess we gotta start a religion if we want money! That said, did you find other tax docs? If so I'd love to get sources for a potential follow-up in the future 😁
I looked it up. The Fiskus states that the Watchtower needed to disclose and pay taxes around 20 million € (2022). Just to say these taxes came from in mayority from Sales items, after the deduction of taxes payed up front to puy raw material food ect. So we look at around 100 millions made in sales becaus the Watchtower Publications are classified as luxury items so habe a 19 percent sales tax. They also payed about 200 million (exact numbers arent public) in land and Property tax. But i dont know how Property tax is calculated and how a bethel or Kingdomhalls a classified. And what other Landholdings are included
@@DarthMagog it isnt the IRS its the German Federal assets. If the IRS is getting the Joker to pay taxes the Fiskus gets Bruce Wayne to file an change of use for the Batcave.
@@DarthMagog and dont worry it isnt unlikly that nobody coukd translate that into english the term Fachchinesisch (Hard to unterstand formal writting) dosent exist for no reason.
I just got my Colvid & Flu shots yesterday & Is finally getting over the side affects of it master Magog now I am good to go for the year master Magog. ♥️💉💉🤢😇♥️
Hey i have a rather important question, can I site you and your videos for a paper on how high control groups use shunning and the bite model (behavioral control, Information control, ect) to control their members? They said we can only site social media people if we have their permission
IF their fragmentary reports on investment earnings are an indication, they are extremely bad about investing money. They have large cash reserves--why don't they invest them? Outside of that, they live hand to mouth on congregational "donations," and a couple bad years would damage them severely. They're not living hand to mouth because they really think that Armageddon could come next year; if that were true, they'd stop their frenetic building. They're just dumb.
If they really wanted to prove they have gods backing then when bible students started they should have taken a one time donation of like 1 cent from everyone and then played darts penny stocks on a board, and finance the whole organization that way. That would be decent proof of Gods backing. No burden on the members and God could control how much they made.
I don’t think you’re going hard enough, they have money that could go towards helping the homeless and other under developed parts of the world ALONG with helping with impoverished communities. That money could’ve gone to help those in need with basic human necessities such as food, housing, and water, with the 150 million people being homeless and they say that greed is a sin.
@@DarthMagog And people who don’t know better get suckered into believe that bs and still give money to the Kingdom Hall or church and thankfully, I don’t go to church because I have a brain. A brain that works and use logic to understand that religious beliefs aren’t more important the the life of another human being
Oh shit suuuuuper late to this one lol me and my boyfriend spent the whole day together yesterday, I baked him a Giant Cookie and we went out for burritos for lunch n then we watched Dororo all day while nomming on that giant pie-sized choco-chip cookie~ XDb NGL bro Tax Talk is suuuuuuuper boring compared to Dororo but I trust your numbers! XP
Lol yeah not as much fun as our usual Caleb and Sophia cringe-fests but still informative. Glad you made it and more importantly glad you and your man had a great weekend my friend 😁
Lol almost. I still have to modulate it a little bit, but Fives did notice I'm normally just a note or two shy of James Early Jones. And while I'm nothing compared to him, it's made editing easier lol
(When u have like 4 diffrent feelings about how these "churches" make so much yet there are people still in there congregations that are still hungry) *Sigh*
@@DarthMagog And that is exactly why education is important. Proverbs 2:6 - “It is LORD who gives wisdom; from him came knowledge and understanding. “ . Proverbs 4:7-9 - “Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight. Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honor. She will be your crowning glory. “ .
S Tier research!
Glad you enjoyed my friend! Hopefully we can get some tax laws changed soon and these goons will have to be honest about their cash...
agreed
@@DarthMagoghello dark lord, last year Australia sent 172 million to the USA for the year of 2023 keeping 26 million for running costs. With 71,188-Ministers who teach the Bible; 726-Congregations; dont forget the millions in shares.
As a former altar boy I was astonished at how much money, property and gold the Catholic Church has and yet the old priest at my Church was always bugging the congregation for more, while carrying a solid gold cross ( which was locked in an old bank vault in the Church basement) The hypocrisy and greed on display were some of the first reasons I decided to leave.
You know, I respect that. Ever heard that song "Hell's Coming With Me?" By Poor Man's Poison? That's what I think of when I think of these churches praying on communities the way they do without giving back.
Must have been the specific Church. I’m Roman Catholic, and the Church that I go to doesn’t talk about money; of course, different Priests talk differently about money. Have you tried a different Congregation?
Loved the intro, Magog!
Another Apostate-tuber called JW Thoughts made a video on how Watchtower is trying to shut down his channel for criticizing them. We should support him as best we can. These guys are scary!
Ex-Mormons are also known to gripe about how rich the Mormon leadership is, while requiring their members to tithe, tithe, tithe, and tithe some more! It infuriates me!
They’re sitting on billions while telling members to tithe even if they can’t pay their bills.
ALL these bogus C u l Ts NEED TO GO!
Yeah LDS demands 10% of WHATEVER you make, they go HARD. I think that church has the better part of 100 billion in the coffers
@@mommyofkittens4809that’s the price to the highest heaven, or one of the price. You need to pay the price to get the prize, scam 101.
@@LittleRadicalThinkeroh I know. I remember having to pay ten cents if I got a dollar as a kid. The greed and s boundless.
Love the intro scene!
I hope one day that the organization itself (not the individual members who were tricked/raised into following it) is completely broke and penniless, and all that money goes to help the people they stepped all over.
That would be lovely, we can only hope.
Thank you for your videos, I am someone who has grown up with some of my family members who tried to brainwash me into JW ever since I was little, your videos help see clearly and I have also grown up going to different denominations and now I’m just non-denomination
Happy to hear it, nothing like being able to build your own relationship with your own God. Or electing not too, whichever brings you more peace 😊
The part about taxes made me think of that Joker quote from BTAS:
"I may be crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? No thank you!"
Very fitting the line's from a villain.
Lol unlike Watchtower, the Joker has standards
I hope the star wars skits get more elaborate as the channel grows.
Lol ngl we've been thinking about doing a movie if it ever
Brilliant! As always! Thank you for all your hard work. You are my hero for putting yourself through all this so that people like me can feel validated and supported.
You are always clear, concise, accurate, and, above all, you don't bash the jw rank and file.
Your hatred and disgust of the governing body is palpable. As is mine. You put the blame exactly in the right place.
The fact that you don't laugh at current members really makes your channel a safe space. I have family that are still jw, and it's not funny. They are not jokes to be laughed at. They are victims of the governing body too. They just don't know it yet.
You soothe my soul with your honesty and compassion.
Happy to help! I figure, if you're gonna punch, punch up. And the Governing Body has stolen so much from us, and our loved ones still stuck in the Watchtower, it's time we get them back. One exposé at a time!
The amount of money a charity handles doesn't concern me. It's what the organisation is doing with it that matters.
There is also WHO is trusted to have access to those funds...there was a rumour that some funds were stolen by a high ranking ĺeader who kept the status after being caught.
We need a different definition of CHARITY because clearly - this ain't it!
@@cultytalk it would be nice if their billions of dollars actually benefitted someone
Great Video. A MUST WATCH
Glad you think so!
Well done Darth, I hope that eventually all the holdings are sold off to pay the strong survivors of this evil empire. Love to all the hurt or hurting ❤❤
I couldn't agree more. Til All Are Healed (And Watchtower is Insolvent)
I really can respect your open and detailed point of view on the JW’s
Gotta put ALL the information out therw
I wasted so much money giving them donations. I felt that I had to so I could get baptized. The elders wouldn't let me get baptized! I'm so disappointed in the North Parkersburg congregation in Parkersburg West Virginia. Fake love!
Religion is the easiest way of separating stupid people from their money.
Lol hey hang on, they got some of my allowance too (and some of my paycheck when I got my first job as a teenager) 😅
Thank you!
Love the work Darth Magog. I was never a JW but I am still fascinated by what you do. Must be the Dark Side at work!
Complete tangent, but what was the game used in the intro?
Oh that was just Battlefront II (2017)
glad you're enjoying the analysis 😀
Great video! 👍
Thank you! 👍
I liked the intro
Thank you, I knew Battlefront would pay off someday lol.
It’s funny cause Jehovahs witnesses kinda look like bad Star Wars fan-fiction.
But you see, the leaders need that money, they really do, to buy a private jet...to spread the good news, of course! It's 100% absolutely positively definitely totally not exploitation and greed!
Hmmmm, note to self:
1. Start Cult
2. Use Money to Build Star Destroyer
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
Lol.@@DarthMagog
Hear out on this, but I'm surprised how much I enjoy this channel. Not because it's shitting on the Watchtower (we need more of that) but because I never liked star wars. Hated it for years just because of the Jedi oath thing, but I can get behind this. The acting is fantastic, and the visuals are S-tier, especially given how this is a small studio. My favorite episodes are the ones where they take down the Calab and sofia episodes. The amount of research is S-tier. Overall I feel this is what StarWars feels to those who like the movies.
Aang you just made my day buddy! We've been learning a lot in audacity and premiere and a few other programs, so it means a lot to learn that all our hard work is paying off!
One former Kingdom Hall is currently a residential house.
Thank you for the information on the Watchtower, Lord Magog! Honestly, it's ridiculous how much money they have and I really wish it was put to good use instead of just sitting around in the pockets of those who protect child predators and other abusers.
Agreed. I'm ashamed to have contributed any of my money to it myself. Hopefully we'll end up costing them more in resources than they gain
@@DarthMagog I'm sure you will, and you don't need to feel ashamed over something that happened when you were too young to know any better.
Idk why but I'm not really knowledgeable on Star Wars, but the short skit things you do interest me and are entertaining. I feel like i was learning
Ah, glad you like them. Ironically they actually take a little longer to shoot and edit than the rest of the video (even with our minimal Special Effects) so that's comforting to hear that they're worth it :)
Absolutely true. I confirmed WT leaders made shady deals giving the seller of a property full payment but causing the tax liability to look very low to avoid taxes. A lower sales price will save the seller a lot of capital gain tax. WT can take the tax hit due to non profit status and regions status.
Nasty trick. I guess we gotta start a religion if we want money! That said, did you find other tax docs? If so I'd love to get sources for a potential follow-up in the future 😁
All those ppl that have been abuse... tell the courts and get your money., maybe this will be a step to healing
Money doesn't fix everything, but therapy isn't free. I think that's a perfectly reasonable 1st step
Thanks
🎉🎉🎉 thank you Theo!
I looked it up.
The Fiskus states that the Watchtower needed to disclose and pay taxes around 20 million € (2022).
Just to say these taxes came from in mayority from Sales items, after the deduction of taxes payed up front to puy raw material food ect. So we look at around 100 millions made in sales becaus the Watchtower Publications are classified as luxury items so habe a 19 percent sales tax.
They also payed about 200 million (exact numbers arent public) in land and Property tax. But i dont know how Property tax is calculated and how a bethel or Kingdomhalls a classified.
And what other Landholdings are included
Oh, that is huge news there! Gotta add that to the research. Maybe the IRS is getting wise to the scam...
@@DarthMagog it isnt the IRS its the German Federal assets.
If the IRS is getting the Joker to pay taxes the Fiskus gets Bruce Wayne to file an change of use for the Batcave.
@@DarthMagog and dont worry it isnt unlikly that nobody coukd translate that into english the term Fachchinesisch (Hard to unterstand formal writting) dosent exist for no reason.
Those game graphics look amazing. Too bad space is a fantasy land... but that's a different story... thanks for exposing watchtower in your own way
This is how we do it 😁
For the high quility content.
Always Master Avatar, glad to have you on the crew 😊 thank you so much for supporting our team!
I just got my Colvid & Flu shots yesterday & Is finally getting over the side affects of it master Magog now I am good to go for the year master Magog. ♥️💉💉🤢😇♥️
I hope that you & 5's get it too master Magog. 💉💉😇
Work's doing flu shot next week i think 😁
@@DarthMagog good I am happy. ♥️
Got mine too just waiting for these superpowers I was promised maybe it will grant me the force
Hey i have a rather important question, can I site you and your videos for a paper on how high control groups use shunning and the bite model (behavioral control, Information control, ect) to control their members? They said we can only site social media people if we have their permission
Permission granted Agent Circle. If possible, i would love to read the final product personally
@@DarthMagog thank you so much ^~^
IF their fragmentary reports on investment earnings are an indication, they are extremely bad about investing money. They have large cash reserves--why don't they invest them? Outside of that, they live hand to mouth on congregational "donations," and a couple bad years would damage them severely. They're not living hand to mouth because they really think that Armageddon could come next year; if that were true, they'd stop their frenetic building. They're just dumb.
now we need to see a Star Wars play of ex-JW vs JW "brainwashed" victims...and play it as a videogame tournament ;)
Lol I'm down to do the HvV 1 V 1 with ol' Stevie Lett!
The pinky thing was funny; and the fake ending.
I have seen other research which estimate (based on their docs) that WT worth is $4.5 - 5 B.
That's not outside the realm of possibility. My calcs were pretty conservative admittedly, but I can see that being more.
What do they need the $ for? If they're selling their real estate, are they buying new places?
Just the land and materials. The labor is free
They are building a huge complex in Warwick, NY - I forget how much that is estimated to be... A few hundred mil $?
Sounds like a new horrible waste of time and $
"Someone in neighboorhour"
O ye my Topology 😂
Lol love it
You're one hell of a pilot!
Took a while to learn where the sweet spot of the blasters is without the hud lol. I suppose the Dark Side is with me
And they still want more money. Isn’t what they already have enough
Never enough. They believe "all the gold & all the silver belong to Jehovah"
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If they really wanted to prove they have gods backing then when bible students started they should have taken a one time donation of like 1 cent from everyone and then played darts penny stocks on a board, and finance the whole organization that way. That would be decent proof of Gods backing. No burden on the members and God could control how much they made.
Lol that would have been a pretty epic way to start a church 😅
I don’t think you’re going hard enough, they have money that could go towards helping the homeless and other under developed parts of the world ALONG with helping with impoverished communities. That money could’ve gone to help those in need with basic human necessities such as food, housing, and water, with the 150 million people being homeless and they say that greed is a sin.
Yup, because apparently having a Movie Studio is more important than fixing problems now. After all, "Leave it in Jehovah’s Hands" lol
@@DarthMagog And people who don’t know better get suckered into believe that bs and still give money to the Kingdom Hall or church and thankfully, I don’t go to church because I have a brain. A brain that works and use logic to understand that religious beliefs aren’t more important the the life of another human being
Oh shit suuuuuper late to this one lol me and my boyfriend spent the whole day together yesterday, I baked him a Giant Cookie and we went out for burritos for lunch n then we watched Dororo all day while nomming on that giant pie-sized choco-chip cookie~ XDb NGL bro Tax Talk is suuuuuuuper boring compared to Dororo but I trust your numbers! XP
Lol yeah not as much fun as our usual Caleb and Sophia cringe-fests but still informative. Glad you made it and more importantly glad you and your man had a great weekend my friend 😁
first? probs not (i usualy don't do this)
Close 2nd. I think Ben got you by a minute lol
1:25-Psyche!
I remember old youtube where that was almost a viable thing to do lol
Sent info.
@@gildedingold yoooooooo, let me get the sauce please? I'd love to make a follow-up with that information
@@DarthMagog can I email it to you? I have screenshots and links.
@@gildedingold Sure: darthmagog@gmail.com thank you!
@@DarthMagog ok. I'll send it now.
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So is this your normal voice?
Lol almost. I still have to modulate it a little bit, but Fives did notice I'm normally just a note or two shy of James Early Jones. And while I'm nothing compared to him, it's made editing easier lol
@DarthMagog ah I see so you just modify it for privacy?
@@tfordham13 it's, complicated 😅
@@DarthMagog I see
242/21,629 = $233.09 a week
Funnily that's 4 times the stipend they give those poor men and women every month...
#taxtherich
Or at least mega churches
(When u have like 4 diffrent feelings about how these "churches" make so much yet there are people still in there congregations that are still hungry) *Sigh*
Oh I've only got 1 or 2 feelings personally. Mostly anger lol
@@DarthMagog Rage, annoyance, the of course they would, and laughing as I say hypocrite. Those are my feelings towards the lovely "Churches".
What genius assigned registered offenders to be elders?
Whichever uneducated, unemployed circuit overseer was in town at the time I'm afraid.
@@DarthMagog And that is exactly why education is important. Proverbs 2:6 - “It is LORD who gives wisdom; from him came knowledge and understanding. “ . Proverbs 4:7-9 - “Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight. Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honor. She will be your crowning glory. “ .
@@DarthMagog What’s a “circuit overseer” ?
Hey IRS go after the watchtower & JW for not paying bills. 😈😉💵💰💸
Okay let's see if they pay Hush money master Magog. 😈😉😢💵
With that kind of money they could Solve hunger in America & the world master Magog the watchtower is greedy. 😢💵🤬😡😠😤
As well as solving America's housing crisis too master Magog. 😡💵
If Watchtower had the guts to do anything charitable, I'd leave em be
@@DarthMagog well maybe we should take a clue from Robin Hood master Magog. 😉😈💵
No your rong
*you're
*wrong
And, how do you reckon?
love the fight scene in the beginning. chloexjw
Lol we love burning the SFX budget on fun fight scenes. Kinda wanna do some lightsaber choreography next time