Danni,
To give you an example of what You Know (Robert) and Alan are doing I'll use a situation you are very familiar with. You can look at You Know as a lawyer for the defense and Alan as the DA. You are the jury and all the rest of us are mainly witnesses for the prosecution and a hand full are witnesses for the defense. Robert is trying to show the innocents of his convicted murder as an upstanding citizen that is simply misunderstood. As most lawyers who try and defend the craftiest of criminals do, he is playing with words and loopholes. If he can confuse the jury and give just the tinniest glimpse of reasonable doubt his client appears to be innocent.
I'm sure you have sat in court rooms where you know the person on trial is guilty but the word and truth manipulation of a crafty lawyer tries to put his client in a good light. The manipulation of the law and the constant searching for loopholes is his main purpose. This is a technique that use to send me up a wall when I sat in court and watched someone I caught breaking the law get away with it because of a lawyers ability to cover-up the truth with volumes of deceptive legalize.
Rationalization and interpretive manipulation are tools that appear to work at times for Robert. He is a master at using these techniques in an attempt to hide the truth and defend his client. He has gained a certain amount of respect on this board because of his psoriatic craftiness. That is why he goes against the direct orders of his religion and posts on this board. He gets a big charge out of using his bright mind to have intelligent conversation with all of us who are out of the religion. He cannot have these kinds of conversations with the average rank and file JW and he knows it. In real life if Robert was a real lawyer I'd want the man to defend me in a second. He loves to use his intelligence no matter what is true or not. I have to admire him for that but then again, that is his whole purpose for positing on this board. He love his strokes just as anyone does.
I personally get a kick out of the Robert and Alan show. It appears here weekly and can often be seen in reruns. Roberts up for the "aposty award" for best supporting actor in a drama series. Alan is up for best leading man. Don't be deceived and see this as fighting, I think secretly they really like each other.
We are not Roberts family. As disfellowshipped JW's he has no JW scriptural justification for corresponding with us. He is posting in direct disobedience to his religious leaders but as in everything he says and does on this board he manipulates his own religious philosophy to justify his presence here. He will defend the leaders of his religion until it interferes with his personal agenda to make Robert look good. When asked about his direct disobedience to those whom he just defended he says that "god is my ultimate master not the JW leaders." He turns his back on them in a second to justify his presence here. He is a master at self justification and manipulation of words when he needs to be. His posting on this board alone shows his true agenda. It is not to defend his professed belief but to build his own ego by having a platform to use his bright mind. His ego is much more important to him than his professes message. If it wasn't he wouldn't be here.
You might want to ask Robert about his thinking on being "one of the 144,000 exclusive people" that will go to heaven. The JW's believe that only 144,000 people out of the billions that have been on earth will go to heaven. Robert believes he is one of these special 144,000. That fact alone will give you an idea of his ego. Also ask him why he disobeys the commands of his religious leaders and continues to post on a discussion board with known disfellowshipped people. He has already posted the fact that true believers are supposed to shun exJW's except for immediate family. We are not Roberts immediate family but he associates with us on a daily basis. You should also ask him about his claim to be an ex-drug addict and a member of a motorcycle gang.
Are you starting to get the picture Danni?
Go ahead, ask him, this should be fun.
Take care Danni.
Dave.
PS: By the way, Robert doesn't like me, he calls me a childish buffoon, isn't that cute?