AnnOMaly
The first rule of posting on this forum is not to use insulting and provoking language and I find your tone and direct remarks insulting and unbecoming to someone who has been referred to as a scholar. If you are in fact a true scholar then mind your language, Please!
1. I am aware of the identity of the celebrated WT scholars as a group. They are publicly recognized. Information as to their identity has been discussed in two part scholarly article published in a Leading academic journal some decades ago. I was priviliged to be present when the author of the foresaid article was awarded the title Professor Emeritus. These are the only clues I will give . Somepne wrote to the Society about this matter and they received a reply indicating a lack of knowledge about such a group. This is a waste of time because the mail clerk who reads such a letter would not know anything about the matter. Let us be content with mystery for it is somewhat like the group of researchers who checked the asto-programs and the NWT Committee. We all have our secrets.
2. I do not know the identity of those researchers but what I do know is that they were a group independent of Furuli who by the way could be classified as celebrated WT scholar so there is one name for you. Don't you think he would qualify for such an elite group?
3.iI have spent decades researching chronology at least from the early seventies so don't tell me that I do not do research. But I cannot research everything for example I am no expert in ancient calendation,ancient astronomy nor in the ancient languages. Anyone of these subjects would be useful to a chronologist but one needs to draw the limit. I am happy to defer to those who have expertise such as Furuli, Hunger and others. Your motive in bullying me to pursue a study of astroprograms is simply a bait so that you can beat your own drum. Scholar will choose his own agenda at his good time. Thankyou!
4. Again you praise your own scholarly examinations. Bully for you! Yet when asked you do not state your academic qualifications so why should I take any notice of your so-called research. There is a credibility gap just akin to the Babylonian gap of twenty years.Yes your work does stand on its own merits along with the work of Jonsson and others but your statue was toppled by the two articles on Chronology published in the Watchtower. Further, the two part critique by Jonsson cannot be trusted. My experience with Jonsson is that he is incompetent in using scholarly sources. I have caught him out before and in his opening comments on the very quote on the historical source referred in the frist paragraph of the first WT article did it for me. When a person becomes so churlish about a significant piece of history then that shows that his motives are not fair and scholarly.
5. You have not dealt with Furuli by mail or email but only through the medium of a website. That may be direct to you and would qualify as a casual form of communication for nothing beats a direct letter. Besides I have asked you to do it this way because of your continuous bully tactics so that is the way it must be. If not, then move on.
scholar JW
scholar JW
