Posted by Amazing [Anointed] on November 13, 1999 at 10:37:02 {OA5YBxH8IAFpTAHn5a4EASIIcexUto}:
In Reply to: PB: A call to AF! posted by JustaMessenger on November 13, 1999 at 08:27:53:
PB: I posted to you a while back that Ray Franz admitted that Grant Suiter spent time at the Stock market monitoring the Society's investments. Franz also admitted that the entire Governing Body was not always aware and clear about such investments. I also heard that Russell had a seat on the NYSE, and that the Society inherited that too as part of his estate. I do not know if that is true, and if it is whether they have sold such a seat. But Suiter's frequent presense there may indicate the possibility.
I really do not care about this GB fellow, but you took his comments out of context and stretched them to support your desire to prove him a fake. He was only talking about the fact that the Society has a lot of financial resources and mentioned stock as one among several.
After I reviewed what he said, he was only mentioning the fact that the Society is heavily invested. This may be a matter of semantics, but he was likely looking at the willed trusts, stocks, etc. as investments for this reason:
If a person inherits a million dollars in common stock from their father it now becomes their property. They are now invested by virtue of owning stock even though they never put a dime into the stock market myself. GB did not appear to be writing any official prospectus, and may have been speaking in this kind of general sense.
No one has bothered to come up with names of stock because I think most here do not care. Almost every religion of major proportions has stock investments. The Catholic and Mormon Churches have stock investments.
We have no real way of proving GB a fake, and he obviously does not intend to do that for us, so why don't we give it a rest.
Simply Amazing