Yes Loz, it beats me too why anyone wants to be rude or offensive about my topics when I put information on JWN every so often or about the way I announce my topics.
Steve2: You have posted 3,285 times including lots and lots of opinionated commentary along with blaring topic announcements and I've posted 655 times with information that I thought was informative for former JWs.
What really surprised me is your saying that there were people that hated me on this board. That's strong language coming from a registered clinical psychologist. Do you want to talk to me over the phone and give me some advice from you, a mental health expert, on how to make people not hate me when starting a new topic on JWN?
I looked back at all the topics I started and most of them were without commentary but contained articles I thought of interest to former JWs. You have claimed time and time again in your posts that you like JWN for the robust alternative ideas and commentary, but, yet, you as a psychologist have a deep problem with my style of passing along information. I looked over all the threads I've started in the past five years and a few have headlines to captivate attention, especially one about Big News regarding the article in the Journal of Church and State. Yet, you say I'm always doing this! This really seems to bother you and maybe you should find a therapist or something. What's with you and "slimboyfat" who said I always talk in the third person, and I do not. I sign most of my posts, Barbara, except when it's an interesting article that I post and that's done without commentary or signature. And I couldn't find one time I posted the way I started off last night's Australia story, but if I did that out of 655 posts, what's so bad about it?
Personally, I think you are rude and offensive and a drama queen! In answer to this statement of yours regarding my posts that are: "annoyingly breathless announcements such as "Anderson information has learned....." I've lost count of the number of times Mrs Anderson has announced that either the state legislature and/or media are on the cusp of exposing the Watchtower Society and that this time it will really shake up the Watchtower Society," I believe you have gone overboard with your generalizations and in this way attack my character and intent.
Are you doing this because I'm a woman (not a man) who climbed the Watch Tower ladder to the top and now pass along the information to help prove that this religion is a sham that terribly hurts people? I'm not a psychologist who went to university to learn how to help people with mental problems, but I wouldn't think of writing about another poster as you did to me and about me. I think there are JWN rules that you can't attack someone like you did me. And usually posters attack posters who use pseudonyms and that's not permitted if a certain line is crossed, yet, you did it to me whose name everybody knows and claim that it is your right to do so.
You think you have that right on JWN, but I'm old fashioned enough to believe that you as a former JW with new freedoms of expression should be respectful of others and what they are doing to expose the inner workings of WT. Maybe you should take up your cause with the owners of JWN and tell them how annoying I am to you. Or, tell you what -- just don't look at my infrequent posts, Steve2, and that way you won't become so irritated that I also am permitted to post on JWN too in such an "obnoxious" way. That's all I have to say about this so rant all you want as you are only hurting the image you have carefully crafted for JWN readers that you are liberal and magnanimous towards all.