Offer to Reconcile

by Amazing 18 Replies latest jw friends

  • VeniceIT
    VeniceIT

    Bravo great ideas, I'm sure at least one of them was mine

    Ven

    "Come and GET em while there hot, take one and pass it on"

  • plmkrzy
    plmkrzy

    Venni are you still on your period?
    put that midol away

  • Guest 77
    Guest 77

    It always boils down to respect Amazing. When you respect others and yourself everything falls into place.

    Guest 77

  • AGuest
    AGuest

    My dearest 'brother', Amazing...

    The greatest of love... and peace... to you!

    Your servant, sister and a slave of Christ,

    SJ

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    Hi Guest 77 and AGuest: Thanks much for your comments. Yes, respect is a good way to prevent problems ... and great effort to resolve the mess when respect is left to evaporate.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    Amazing,

    You know I love you dearly and I love all the good you have done. Particularly, I love your comments on how you helped your family get out of the WTS Cult. Most excellent. I also like your judicial series, although I think you milked the heck out of it.

    I also know that when you are challenged, you get pissy, Now, let's get to work, shall we? (It's my Watchtower upbringing. Start a challenge with the question.)

    I will start with this:

    You are sometimes full of self-serving bullshit and you can be a majorly pukey Pharisee.

    You said:

    : I know that some strongly dislike me, whether that dislike is based in fact or in their own perceptions and speculations.

    It's the bullshit, Amazing. It's the bullshit. People can sense the bullshit.

    : E-Man recently helped me not only rediscover accepting people as they are, warts and all, but also it is okay to be disliked for who we are ... that we don’t have to please everyone. Therefore, to all of you who feel offended at me, and I mean anyone, whoever that may be, I make the following offer:

    (Amazing makes the offer)

    : I want to reconcile with you. We have likely had good times in the past, respected one another, and even posted as a team at times. I make my general apology to you for hurting you in any way ... whether I was in the right or not ... I apologize unconditionally; but also in the hopes you will accept, and resolve matters with me.

    This is good, Amazing, except for one small fact:

    : I apologize unconditionally; but also in the hopes you will accept, and resolve matters with me.

    So defacto, your apology is NOT unconditional, but conditional. There are no "buts" in "unconditional" in my world.

    See, that is what I would like to comment about. You are covering your bases, Amazing. Once you expose yourself, you are FREE! I think I've done that. I've shown just about every vulnerable part about me, and the vipers have take their bites. Yeah, it hurts, but yeah, that is ALL there is to me! No more bites. Nothing left to bite.

    Remember the days before Bill Bowen when a small group of us were trying to bring justice over the child abuse issue? Remember those days? Remember your idea of the "Working Group(tm)?" Remember your pharisaical ideas about how to "Organize" the "Working Group?" Remember how you tried to take over the little group we had and "organize it" and "systemetize it?" Remember that? Remember how you asked each of us of to give a profile of ourselves to justify our existence in this new order that you deemed you were destined to take control of? Remember that? Remember how you suggested that you be appointed "Secretary?" (As I recall. But I have my pals to back me up.)

    Remember how you wanted to form a Corporation or at least some LEGAL entity, and all we wanted to do was to work to stop the child abuse?

    Then Bill Bowen came along and all your bullshit legalism disappeared. You made a big mistake and pissed off a lot of good people. And you know what? I'm fairly sure these comments are going to make you go ballistic, unless you can deal with them and arise above them and be the big guy that you can be.

    Amazing: you are still acting like a pharasee. I suspect you will challenge me on this, and then I'll have to dig out old stuff and bring it up and we will go around-and-around on this.

    My suggestion? Consider what I said, and I was pretty damm accurate with what I said, and we both can get on with the stuff at hand.

    Deny it, and then, well......you know ME! I don't mess around!

    Amazing, you know I care about you.

    I would like some closure too. We've been through a lot of battles together. We have to be brutally honest ourselves or we lose everything we've worked for.

    Farkel, with trepidation

  • Beck_Melbourne
    Beck_Melbourne

    I second that emotion Amazing!!

    Beck

  • Joseph Joachim
    Joseph Joachim

    Amazing said (if I'm not hallucinating):
    I will leave it to you to contact an attorney in your jurisdiction to determine if your posted words constitute a chargeable offense.

    I offer a more realistic alternative: seek political asylum at the Swiss Embassy. I can give you shelter in my apartment for one or two months.

    ~ Josef Joachim

    PS: The invitation above is extended only to good-looking, single men under 35.

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    Farkel and I discussed this off board and resolved the issues. Everything is fine between us. We decided to amend this post to eliminate any further issues. Thanks again Farkel!

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