I thought Old Goat was also quite argumentative and a little patronising
Of course he was. He even called himself a cranky old man. He was reacting to Lloyd coming out of nowhere and in his first sentence saying that the point he had made in his email to jwfacts had been lost on some.
This was his go-to passive-aggressive insult in the early days- āI donāt think many of you are getting the point I was trying to makeā like weāre all stupid and heās here to teach us. Often the point he was making was of such minor detail - such as WT deleting the flags out of a re-creation of the Cedars Point convention. The point OG was making was why would WT want to put the flags into their new video? It would probably lead to bunch of questions and letters written about the prominence of the flags.
Flags are present at many WT events round the world where they are renting worldly venues. It wasnāt any big deal back then and still isnāt. WT omitting the flags didnāt exactly reek of the cover-up as Lloyd was making it to be, but it was rather one of convenience.
Another interesting thing from that thread was Lloyd employing quite likely the first instance of his āyou are making it look bad to doubting JWsā argument - the exact same one he uses today when people are talking about him and what he has done:
For your information I only became firm in my understandings about the society a few weeks ago - and YOU are making this sort of site look bad to a first-timer like me
This post was made in 2011. Now read his account from TRA. Lloyd relates that on New Years Day in 2010 that he wrote his 9 grievances against the WT to his wife where he came to the conclusion that he doubted the WT was Godās organisation and expressed his desire to fade away. It was only until sometime in 2011 that he wrote a formal letter to the elders letting them know he would become inactive. But him being āfirm in my understandingsā dated to 1/1/2010 at least. Lloyd had just recently publicly stated he was going inactive when he made that post, but heās misrepresenting himself as someone who had just woken up. That simply wasnāt true. He had been a PIMO for at least 1 1/2 years before and if you read those 9 grievances, youād know how āfirmā he was in those convictions.
But it served his argument well to make the case he was just newly awakened and so he greatly exaggerated and weaponised that to use in a forum argument where he felt he was being attacked.
