I like John, and I’m always eagerly waiting for his next
videos and articles; but frankly, I think he is completely off base with his
last article. He basically presents a spectrum of X-JWs based on their activism
level and their belief or non-belief in God. Then, he links this to the hatred
he has felt over the years and especially more recently.
Well, I believe that the heat he receives lately has nothing
to do with his belief and everything to do with his personality. Simply put, he
projects the image of a condescending know-it-all whose judgement and understanding
of life is not clouded by his emotions.
For people like Mike and Kim, who are the exact opposite,
this is unbearable, especially when this young little nerd start telling
everyone that they are conspiracy driven nuts who are damaging the very cause
that they are dedicating their lives to.
This is what they have, this is what they want to leave
behind, doing their best to awake people, support the awakened, and expose
Watchtower.
Yet, to John, they are not only meaningless, they are
damaging to the cause. He did not shy from expressing this when he basically
called out everyone involved in aggressive activism.
When I saw this, I personally wrote to John. I related the
fact that the first time I looked for Apostate stuff on the web was after I
heard “a nut case” shouting outside and Assembly hall: “The WT was part of the
UN for ten years! Check it out!” – Then, I went home and checked it out! You
may not agree with it, but it can actually work. John’s response? You’re an exception.
Most people are driven further into the cult. Well, how do you know? How can
you claim to know how people feel? What they think, their fear, their pain, their
concerns? None of that can be measured.
The world is not just about facts. A large portion of it is
based on emotions, feelings, sensations, things that cannot be defined or measured.
And it is not because we cannot easily define it, explain it, measure it, that
it is any less important than the rest.
When people are on their death beds, they talk about love, their
family, friends, the smell of grass, the taste of ice cream, etc. They are
rarely debating upon the intellectual understanding of X cause in the world.
Mike & Kim are all about emotions. They get mad, they
laugh hysterically at the absurdities of the Watchtower… and they threaten to
kick John’s ass when he calls one of their friends the “C” word.
John’s response? He writes a five page essay in which it
sounds like legal jargons to express the fact that Mike threatened him. That’s
how far his personality is from that couple.
I am not taking side with either ones to be honest. Mike and
Kim do sound like nut case from time to time and John sounds like an ass full
of himself from time to time. All this to say that the spectrum is not about
religion, it is about personalities. He and the “Mike & Kim” team are at opposite
ends of that spectrum, and I am very much enjoying the show watching every
videos that both of them produce!
