by james_woods 205 Replies latest jw experiences
They do not have the right to sneer at those who believeuse math, to try to destroytake advantage any vesitiges of faith left in those already wounded by the Watchtower, to intimidate most of those who disagree with them from posting where they post, nor, surely, to expect to vilify beatify someone like Mother Teresa without allowing her the right of a defence on her behalfa full disclosure of her horrific deeds.
Fixed for accuracy.
I still say she needed a good boning.
Chariklo, sorry to burst your bubble, but giving a long-winded speech which begin with how great people tell you that you are in personal messages and ending with "I SPEAK TEH TRUTH!!!" is not how adults determine what is true or not. They do that by discussing evidence. which is (i believe) what people are doing here with respect to MT. You are free to join in.
What round is this?
The round where it's been decided MT needed a solid boning.
Some abbot needed to show her his 'O' face.
I was actually quite sad to learn that MT might not be what everybody thought she was. The picture of her doing a lot of good to other was a constant for me, an image of a human doing something good. Now i still hope (and believe) she did mostly good in her work, but that mostly is all the difference.
I was actually quite sad to learn that MT might not be what everybody thought she was.
Me too. Although I don't think she did mostly good. I think she stood in the way of better solutions.
Yes, she did do mostly good, bohm, and that mostly, as you say, contains the difference.
The difference is that, being human, she was not perfect.
I was pretty disappointed when I found out about her, too.
Yes, she did do mostly good, bohm, and that mostly, as you say, contains the difference.
So how many people did she do good for and how many did she harm? Without knowing this, we can't really quantify whether she was mostly good or mostly bad.
Chariklo - I am not saying that you cannot discuss the topic or defend Mother Teresa. What I am objecting to is that you are again trying to turn this into a personal arguement about others on this forum. It wasn't a member of this forum that wrote the article ! It was brought here for discussion. But you are again bringing up past arguements, and you are again bringing up something that happened on a completely different forum to this one.
She didn't do mostly good. She stood in the way of better being done. And she left a legacy----people who will follow her ways even though she has died. So that suffering will be perpetuated, and the things that really can be improved will remain unaddressed. She didn't fight poverty. Not at all. She simply accepted it and dabbed some brows. If she had just stepped aside, better options could have been applied. Yet she was all about the suffering.
