Contributed by a "Charles Stanley"
"Dear Randy,
There is a weekly discussion programme over here called "Question Time" The audience poses the questions and a panel answers them. The panel is composed of usually at least one politician amongst a total of five prominent men and women. Tonight one panel member referred to the NGO's. This is the first time I have heard this term used on this popular programme.It was used in a matter of fact way as if everybody new of this organization, which of course they don't. It was as though the speaker was saying in a 'throw away' superfluous comment, "Everybody knows that the NGO's promote the virtues of the UN" Just as night follows day, so the NGO's speak for the UN, it is an established certainty. They are non-governmental so they have no axe to grind they are impartial. "Everybody knows" except the WT who signed up for it 10 years ago and every year until 1991. How dare the WT the epitome of discretion (i.e. the self assumed discreet slave) come out with this lame pathetic school-boy excuse, "Please sir, we didn't know that we were trespassing into the orchard; the signs that we ourselves erected that said 'Keep out!' we didn't think applied to us" They have been publishing the "Keep out" signs for a quarter of a century! I, have phoned an elder and told him that the WT was part of the UN according to the Guardian newspaper. His well trained response was predictable in the form of a castigating rebuke of the newspaper. (We should allow ones like this to give vent to their feelings and shore up any breaches in their defense. They are in fact repairing the walls of their castle with paper bricks. They ar building the proverbial "House of Cars". One friend of mine phoned the New York Bethel and someone there said, in response to "Is the WT an NGO?" "I can categorically tell you that, that is a downright lie" This Bethelite then abruptly put the phone down. I asked my friend what date he phoned the Bethel. He said it was the 9th October 2001. I told him that the Bethel member was speaking the truth, the truth by a fraction of a day; because on Oct 8th the WT was an NGO. That particular Bethelite, (his answer showing him to be a well trained graduate of his theocratic school ) and his tutors must account for their actions: their errors of comission and omission. (Eph 4:14) A certain riddle has a very appropriate moral at this crucial time of decision. A peaceful country has a population where half of the people always tell the truth and the other half always tell lies. How do you distinguish the liars from the truth-tellers? The point is, that you don't: they both are wrong. Why? Because they peacefully co-exist. The liars are clearly wrong and the ritual truth-tellers are also wrong because they condone the liars."