I seldom post on threads such as this one, but Mr. Fearon’s conduct is so egregious that I will this time. The world is full of angry, marginalized people. His website and call-in shows are his attempt to regain something lost. He is abusive and stupid.
There is no expectation of free speech on a private forum. I don’t care if he goes or stays, but his chronic stupidity paints us all with the same brush. Most of us aren’t as he is, but those who come here out of curiosity cannot help but wonder if we are all as abusive, unthinking and gullible. If this were my forum, my opinion would change. He’d be gone in a second. As a forum reader, I simply ignore him. He feeds of attention, even negative attention.
Johnny the Bethelite? Please … Rick in the 24 Columbia Heights building on the fourth floor in the NW corner there is a door. Something is written on the door. Ask Johnny what it is. I’d love to know his answer. (I mean the door on the right, inside hall.) On the fifth floor, same building, there is a series of paintings. Have dear ol’ Johnny list them in order starting from elevator right. I’d love to know his answer.
Mr. Fearon is a conspiracy-theory fanatic. His message is off target. He is the epitome of the wild-eyed, bag-over-head, sign carrying apostate. He refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions. He is an attention whore who misses what little prominence he had within the Watchtower organization. Why he receives the attention that he does is a mystery to me.
Would you engage this man in real life? If not, then why do it here? My mental image of him is of a man overfed on starch, wearing an ill-fitting suit and a tinfoil hat, protest sign in one hand and a squished pastry in the other. He’s this forum’s version of the street evangelist who shouts obscenities and damns everyone that passes.
I realize I’m transgressing my own advice to ignore him, but I can’t think of any way to suggest that he’s not worth your attention except to say so. It’s one of life’s conundrums.
