by ScoobySnax 69 Replies latest jw friends
Valis
I've read hundreds of your posts by now. And I have to be honest, you amongst many on the JWD matrix fit into my first analogy. No disrespect to you, I'm sure you're a great guy and have helped many,usually those that are out though who can clap and pat u on the back. NOT the ones I was speaking of. No Valis I don't think I should move on because I don't agree with your "realisation". (with all due respect) I'll still watch.
and have helped many,usually those that are out though who can clap and pat u on the back.
what does that mean Scooby? So I fit into your analogy? You know this forum is what you make it Scoob and I bet if I go back and look at your recent threads they will be in some sense much like this one. You can go on w/ your passive/agressive attempts and messing with the forum and w/individuals. After all, you're the one sitting on the fence for so long...to be happy and live my life or be a JW and be totally miserable? You know the answers to your own questions yet you use that same angst to fuel BS threads like this. Perhpas Jehovah will reward me for all my efforts in offering you my perspective.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
Minimus....for a start you are disqualified on the "Why don't you just leave" reasoning. Its a crap line, with little thought and comes across as a sort of knee-jerk to anything that might stop and make you question. (LOL questions Mini....you know?)
Valis you seem to be commenting on very little of my original post, and seem to be more intent on proving points.
"They leave or get kicked because they do more harm than good"...... Says who Valis? You? Who Valis? Harm to who....surely not the infalliable new world of ex-jws? who?
I think its more to a few egos that exist here.
I missed your point to suit my needs?....Listen matey....have a read back on your post, and see who's not getting the point of my original post.
Quit ducking and diving.
Scooby, do me a favor please. Tell me what EXACTLY your point is.I was getting the impression, as I think Valis was, that you're suggesting this forum is really not beneffiting people, these days. I think JWD benefits a lot of people and they use the site for various reasons. And anytime I give you a response YOU don't like, you try to simply dismiss it.
Like most open groups that go through cycles so too this board goes through its cycles. New people come in and others leave all the time. New issues surface and disappear to be taken up by other issues or older ones resurface.
It seems to me that anyone who desires more thoguth provoking topics needs to start them. Some will get a lot of posts. Others won't. Controvery gets a lot of posts. But if you assess the success of any one topic by the number of posts it gets you would be dead wrong.
People need variety. And coming from a place where only one topic was acceptable people who come here need the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics (fluff included). How else are we to learn normal social discourse if we can't practice it somewhere? And here at least is the knowledge that others will understand some of the gaps in our social awareness that others take for granted.
Yes people make friends here and stick with them but they do that everywhere. To expect any different here is unreasonable. People will champion their own issues. Got one? Go for it and see who comes out of the woodwork to share their thoughts.
JWD Lite? well sometimes we all need a bit of light. Too much was controlled and never enough lite in the borg.
Too many of Min's questions? I actually like his questions and think they fill a very important role (even though a lot of people criticize him for it - Go for it Min - they are more important than most people realize).
Posters have their own agendas? Doesn't everyone? What's the problem? Diversity is wonderful. Lordy the last thing we need here is the JW-type unity.
No person or board will ever bring down the WTS. To even think such a thing could happen is unrealistic. This board and others like it serve the purpose of the people who come here whether they post or just read. And we have no idea how many people read what goes on here. We have no idea how many times something is copied and emailed or printed and given to others to read. All we can affect is our tiny corner of the universe. Whatever impact I have (or don't have) is small. But one drop doesn't make much of a trickle. A thousand drops does better. But if each one keeps adding their drop hopefully a river will soon be formed. And just as my one drop gets lost in the flow and travels down the river to a place I may never know of so too my words may travel to a person I will never know. And that is OK.
My hope is that what I say (or post) helps someone somewhere. I would like to know who but I don't need to know who. All I need is to share. When I want. And what I want.
I hope we each do the same
Tiresome Valis.....same old same ol'
It seems to me that anyone who desires more thoguth provoking topics needs to start them.
BANG!
Lady Lee, I agree with what you said, especially the part about me.
Scooby,
Self Indulgence gets tiresome. Move on.
Having read some of your posts in recent months, I could not agree more.
HS
I think the same questions are asked because the new people dont know they were asked before
We all have something in common when we leave the organization.
Its the same old questions,why were we so blind.
i like all the questions, I have learned alot
I especially like the fact people are polite enough to read the questions people have.
Some people seem very educated on certain subjects
and maybe people feel they have nothing further to offer
I like it here
