Farkel said:
A very recent example of the power of this particular board, is it was first revealed here that for TEN years the Watchtower had secretely joined the UN as an affiliate. Within a matter of a few days the shock and embarrassment of the world finding out Watchtower hypocrisy, they resigned their affiliation and then lied about why they had joined in the first place.
Uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............. I'm going to have to disagree with the eminent Farkel on this one.
Actually, as I recall, the "Fit hit the Shan" when the British reporter printed a story about it in The Guardian. That is what got us talking, and it is reasonable to conclude that is what got The Brothers(TM) and The Sisters(TM) and The Society(TM) interested in the subject. The Brothers(TM) and Sisters(TM) were likely contacting The Society(TM) for verification. Certainly The Opposers(TM) were contacting them. So, the UN story was:
- printed in a large circulation newspaper (The Guardian), and it was picked up by other news agencies
- likely came right to the WT door via telephone enquiries as a result of The Guardian's story
- was discussed on JWD, this Den of Apostates and Opposers(TM)
All this happened at approx the same time. Now, which do you think got their attention? My vote, using the KISS principle, is the first or second are far more likely to have been the method by which this scandal got the WT's attention. It was hand delivered to them, without any JWD lurking necessary.
Freedom96, this topic was discussed in a thread I started on June 9: Does Watchtower Society monitor this board?
The closest we got to "proof" at that time was the following statement:
David Semonian, spokesman for the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses,admitted the group sometimes looks at the website "when necessary." He also said it attempts to "readjust(the) thinking " of those who post material critical of the religion on the web."
However, this does not proove that JWD is deliberatly lurked by WT drones on a mission to gather information about us good-ole apostates. It is very vague, and could also be interpreted as meaning:
Sometimes a brother will put something apostate on a website, or on an MSN discussion board, or in a Usenet Newsgroup, or at one of the 100 billion possible locations on the internet.
If another brother somehow finds out about it, perhaps because the bad brother told him about it, or because we see a link publihsed in a newspaper article which has high exposure and we know the general public will be checking out, then we will check out the web page to see if we have a case for libel.
