Dear sir Dakota:
:Hilda, Hilda, Hilda. Why do you persist in this charade of pretending you are not a JW? Your quote earlier is word for word direct from Galatians 5:9, only in the New World Translation. Perhaps if you had quoted it word for word from another translation, well, maybe then you would come across as not a JW.:
I have neither denied nor affirmed that I am a JW. Can you point to any place on this board where I ever made any such affirmations or denials of being associated with JWs?
:In yet another thread, you all but openly admitted it when you lumped yourself in with the JWs with a "us." Could you be ashamed of your affiliation, yet still try to defend the undefendable? You are hardly the only JW who comes here and tries to defend them. So, no need to play a charade and pretend you are an independent free thinker. The WTBTS condemns independent thinking, you know?:
I am not an independent thinker. Thinking, in general, can get people into lots of trouble, dear. I am a free soul, which is different from being an independent thinker. Have you not read the Christian mystics before? They assure us that thought is not that reliable. It is no more dependable than language, dear. Language is more or less the presence of absence.
:I hope you stick around and read some more. Maybe your eyes, ears and heart will be opened and you will see that mother isn't what she claims.:
My mother is not on earth, sir. Read Galatians 4:26. Call no one on earth your mommy.