Olin Moyles Ghost	Re: KISS-OFF letter to me from an old JW friend I recently saw again
	Terry, Thanks for sharing your friend's letter and your response. I concur with some of the other commenters that she sounds like an intelligent, yet deceived, person. One of her statements surprised me: "I'm confident you recognize that 'slander' can be correctly used to refer to spreading around facts as well as to spreading lies." I wonder where she got this idea? The dictionary and legal definitions of "slander" both require *false* defamatory spoken statements. I did a quick Watchtower library search and found this paragraph from a 10/15/1989 Watchtower article: Gossip is “idle talk, not always true, about other people and their affairs.” It is “light, familiar talk or writing.” Since all of us are interested in people, we sometimes say good, upbuilding things about others. Slander is different. It is “a false report meant to do harm to the good name and reputation of another.” Such talk is generally malicious and is unchristian. So, I don't know where she got the idea that slander can be true, yet unflattering, statements.
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