Minimus writes:
“I think we should not make statements about what the Watchtower Society is secretly doing if we can not substantiate the statements.
“We do not know if a "Bethelite" is doing whatever he claims to be doing clandestinely. When we make threads or statements about things we have absolutely no proof of, we are making ourselves look bad.”
That is the remark to which I entered this discussion by responding to it.
Compare that with this sharing of information by Minimus:
“One of the worst scandals I've heard was that of how 2 elders terrorized an entire congregation.ANYBODY that disagreed with them, was considered disloyal. Judicial meetings were set up with anyone that sided in with anyone the elders went after.They would be charged with "causing divisions". Then they would arrange for elders that were friends to sit in the appeal commitee. Eventually dozens and dozens were disfellowshipped because these 2 elders viewed such ones as "wicked". After a couple of years, the Society sent elders and Bethelites over to investigate why all these disfellowshippings were taking place. Finally, these 2 elders got removed with the condition that they would never serve again.”
And there we have it. Minimus suggests participants here should not make statements about things they have absolutely no proof of. Yet this is precisely the privilege Minimus has acted on more times that I care to count.
As I said initially,
“I see no problem with a person sharing what they know Watchtower is doing is they know the information firsthand. The problem is that firsthand knowledge is not always verifiable. Hence, when it comes to sharing firsthand knowledge, I see nothing wrong with sharing information of what Watchtower is doing. In that case the reader must take the information for what it presents: alleged firsthand information that cannot otherwise be verified. In most instances I would say such information is not worth much, but if lots of alleged firsthand accounts are the same or nearly the same, and if the information is plausible based on information that is less than confirmation but suggest a probability, then such information becomes useful.”
Nowhere and at no time have I remotely suggested that any participant here share false information, as suggested of me by the idiot known here as Minimus.
Asking something of others that a person does not follow themselves is the behavior of an idiot, to put it nicely.
Marvin Shilmer
