The Conspiracy Theory Trap - Why exjw are vulnerable to embracing them and how it undermines their credibility.
It is very common for former members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to embrace any conspiracy theory that support their feelings that the JW leadership and their followers are evil, especially if they feel they were victimized by the religion.
There are all sorts of conspiracy theories, one of the most often repeated is that the organization is a real state corporation that produces billions of dollars for a selected few, among them the members of the GB. They will talk about the financial investments the organization has around the world, their enormous wealth and the lack of transparency about how much money the WT actually owns.
What they will not talk about is evidence. They will not address the utter lack of evidence of any wrongdoing during all these years. Not even a leaked document or a testimony from a credible source. Nothing. When asked why government audits have never found anything that suggest anything nefarious is going on, sometimes they will claim the government is also complicit. That is all the governments where they have operations and branches. All are either complicit or utterly incompetent to discover what exjw can see a mile away.
When asked: Where is all the money? They will talk about GB wearing what looks like Rolex Watches and gold rings. Yeah...they are spending billions in watches. Where are the yatch, the mansions, the private jets? For some weird reason the GB is stealing billions only to continue living in their small, modest apartments at Warwick. They are not sharing any of the wealth with their relatives either, they continue to live pretty regular lives in their congregations.
When confronted with this questions they will move on to a different conspiracy theory, often equally unsupported.
This is just an example of one Conspiracy theory, there are many more that are regurgitated in exjw circles ad nauseam.
The reason this happens is because former JW that feel victimized by the religion are vulnerable to embrace anything that validates their feelings. It makes their villain uglier and meaner. It makes their cause worthier.
The JW leadership loves it. Exjw embracing conspiracy fits their stereotype of the deranged, bitter apostate. Vulnerable JWs might fall for these tropes but any mature person with a bit of critical thinking will realize these allegations are baseless and unsupported. They will immediately dismiss any argument that comes from someone co-opting these allegations. That’s the trap. There conspiracy theories undermine the apostate credibility.
The GB knows about all this crazy conspiracy theories and allegations and they don't even bother to address them, not even subtly. They know that the louder the apostates shout this theories, the crazier they look. Do you think they didn’t see the shiny watch before the broadcasting was released. They sure did, it is their way to troll the apostate community. They must laugh at every Youtube video speculating which Rolex model it is.