Given your reaction to Mr. Andersons letter of resignation recently posted to this Board, which seemed sympathetic, I would like to ask three questions of you, which of course you are at liberty not to answer.
Is this some sort of trick? I counted 4 questions. What are you trying to pull? Seriously though, those questions are appropriate. I will try to be brief for our ADD aflicted readers.
1 ) How do you personally feel about the fact that the WTS is now moving to disfellowship Mr. Anderson for writing that letter?
I am deeply disappointed that they would try and use the local brothers to do their dirty work. I am not at all proud of the Watchtower right now. They are reaching an all time low as far as I am concerned. Jehovah's judgment cannot come soon enough. As you probably know, I think the 'increasing of lawlessness,' and 'the love of the greater number growing cooling off' as well as many 'betraying one another' and many 'being stumbled,' applies to Jehovah's Witnesses. It certainly is an observable phenomenon and a significant aspect of Christ's prophecy concerning the sign of his presence. The more the lawlessness increases, like pedophilia for example, the more friends are stumbled, and the more the organization resorts to loveless tyranny to stem the tide. And, most distressing, is that the Watchtower hasn't really prepared us for this sort of test. They resemble the Jews in Jeremiah's prophecy who are treating the breakdown of Jehovah's people lightly by saying in effect: "There is peace, there is peace"... when there is no peace.
The challenge for the faithful, no matter how bad it gets, is to not allow themselves to be driven into the arms of "sympathetic" apostates. That's the danger presented at Psalms 10:9-10, which reads: "He keeps lying in wait in the concealed place like a lion in his covert. He keeps lying in wait to carry off some afflicted one by force. He carries off the afflicted one by force when he draws his net shut. He is crushed, he bows down, and the army of dejected ones has to fall into his strong claws."
Read the 34th chapter of Ezekiel. The whole chapter is detailing Jehovah's judicial decision that is to be executed against those whom he judges to be bad shepherds. Those bad shepherds are described, in verse 21, where God says: "For the reason that with the flank and with the shoulder you kept pushing and with your horns you kept shoving all the sickened ones until you had scattered them to the outside." Now, if Jehovah's Witneses are indeed God's people, we would expect to see some evidence of the activity of the bad shepherds as a prelude to Jehovah's judgment. And indeed we do. The fact that such outrages are occurring, whereby God's sheep are being abused and stumbled out of the organization by abusive shepherds, far from proving that we are not Jehovah's organization, in fact proves the very opposite.
2) If Mr. Anderson were to begin posting to this Board, how would you view him?
I am sympathetic with him at the moment, but if he joins in the apostate side of the issue, then, I would view him as I do the most of you. Sort of like in the sci-fi movie, Invasion of the Body Snacthers, you have sympathy for the victim, but then when the victim raises his finger and shrieks at you, then your view changes a bit.
3) Do you accept that there are others posting to this Board who have been disfellowshipped for a similar display of personal integrity and courage?
No doubt.
4) If the WTS were to take action against you at some stage for your contrary opinions of its policies, will you view yourself as a 'slithering apostate weasel', or as a man of integrity?
Well, perhaps I would view myself as an integrity keeping weasel, sort of in keeping with the paradoxical village idiot/ Einstein character of your note.
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