When you are in, I mean mentally in, did you ever unintentionally set of someone’s aposta-sense?
I was among close friends (so I thought) and I let my hair down for a bit and questioned whether the Flood really covered every inch of the earth. I asked, if this is supposed to be Noah’s eyewitness account, wouldn’t the Flood just cover the whole land as far as the eye could see?
Some time later, I was speculating about quantum mechanics and how the electron does not have a definite position around the atom but exist as a cloud of probabilities and my friend rebuffed the idea. I told him to point out where I was wrong. He could not. I told him to do some research and get back with me and show me where I was wrong. He got this glassy look in his eyes and said, “I do not need to do any research. The Faithful Slave gives us everything we need to know for our salvation. They will tell us what we need to know.” I thought to myself, “Yes, but what do they have to do with this discussion?”
My then best friend witnessed the conversation and I asked him what in the world just went down. He told me, “He thinks your going apostate.”
I couldn’t believe it. “Apostate?” Such a thing couldn’t be further from my mind…and it made no sense to me at the time. I kept thinking about the glassy look in his eyes, his angry demeanor. I thought it was him. Later, when learning about mind control, it all made sense. Looking back, I remember that same glassy look in my best friend's eyes sometimes. Heck...I probably had that same glassy look sometimes too.