dear Terry...
I think this whole she said, I said thread is in pretty poor taste...IF she ever sees the light and does comes here and reads up on what her good and trusted friend Terry had to say all these years would she be happy about you exposing to the world her heart felt correspondence?
would you sell out any and all friends to gain a few "bucks"?...just wondering...
love michelle
I think the Jehovah's Witnesses who turn their backs on their friends just because they are told to do it is in poor taste, personally.
If you read the words in her e-mail to me you will see she never referred to me as her "good and trusted friend". I am regarded as a slanderer.
If I were a slanderer I'd have her views converted into my own words and distort them rather than quoting them verbatim.
She spoke for herself. I spoke for myself. The reader can judge.
I have no doubt that Pamela's correspondence was "heart felt". It is the temperature of her heart that disturbs me and compels me to reproduce he words and feelings as a cautionary tale to this Discussion Board.
What does her letter contain that is worth revealing publicly?
1.Her low opinion of the brothers and elders at the Kingdom Hall.
2.She has to "keep her own counsel".
3.She has become insular in her life waiting on Jehovah to clean house (kick the elders in the butt.)
4.Her identification of the "double life" being led by brothers and sisters at the Hall. (As well as her own!)
5.The coercion of her husband, Paddy, to cut off his beard.
6.The fact she doesn't feel like I am worth an argument which might bring me back into the fold.
7.The total absence of love as an identifying mark of Jehovah's Witnesses.
If I wanted to do her harm I would send a copy of her correspondence to her presiding elder at her Kingdom Hall. I would would run down a few hundred bits of personal knowledge I have firsthand about her life as a JW.
No, the e-mail was addressed to me and I can do what I want with it. If she has cause later to feel ashamed it would indicate an improvement in her thinking. Shame might be the best response possible.
What are you suggesting?
T.