I think most of us at some time have had the experience of overhearing a conversation while travelling, or in a coffee shop, and realizing that we are listening to a crafty JW in the middle of preaching. You know the type of thing, "Wont it be nice when God steps in and clears up all these problems", problems incidentally that they have just spent the past thirty minutes listing to their hapless listeners in morbid detail. No-one cherishes their collection of grim news quite like a JW.
I was wondering however, what the overheard conversation of an XJW might sound like :
WAITER - Would Sir like a coffee?
XJW - What do you mean *like* a coffee? - explain yourself...*if* you can.
WAITER - Well, regular, expresso, cappuccino?
XJW - I know what different types of coffee exist brain-death! ! Since leaving the JWs I have got three degrees at my local university, and in fact bought a coffee plantation with the proceeds of my huge salary, so there is very little that you can teach *me* about coffee. What I am discussing here, if you were to read what I just posted to your little mind more carefully, is the contextual use of the word 'like' as applied to the taste of coffee. Can you define it more clearly?
WAITER - Uhmm. ( giggles nervously ) Well, is sir thirsty?
XJW - There, I knew it! You are changing the playing field. You have quickly moved from the original use of the word 'like' to now using the word 'thirsty' cleverly trying to squirm out of what your originally stated. You are trying a typical WTS straw-man, circular, red-herring, type argument with me, and you actually think that I would not notice. Since reading Ray Franz's book ( which incidentally was only light reading for me ) , I can spot this sort of reasoning easily, I am after all part of the Emperor class.
WAITER - ( blushing heavily ) Sir, can I bring you the menu and perhaps you can chose your own drink.
XJW - Dont try and squirm out of this. It was you who originally used the term 'like', not me, I was merely questioning its usage and now you try to make it appear as if I am being unreasonable. This is typical Waiter behavior, your cognitive-dissonace is shining like Rudolph's nose. The basic premise of your argument is flawed but what can I expect from somebody who goes to church and worships a bunch of tribal fairy tales each Sunday.
WAITER - Shall I call the manager Sir?
XJW - That is it! Lose the argument and what do you do, start calling for others in your back-slapping clique to bale you out. You brain-dead moron, ban me if you wish, I will be no part of a restaurant that employs a waiter who is inconsistent and cannot even understand the English language. ( belches loudly - swears for three minutes at the by now puzzled onlookers without repeating a word once, and leaves the restaurant - without paying )
WAITER - I liked him much better when he used to get nervous doing his number 4 talk.
XJW - ( Muttering to self ) Ye Gods! It worked again. Another free meal.
Edited by - hillary_step on 20 August 2002 8:16:12