Yes, I'm anaglypta-- I've already said as much in a previous post, a while back. EDIT: Actually I've just checked and I can't find that I did that. Though I have already stated I was previously banned, and as observed, I have a consistent style. I'm not sure if that's where a post has been deleted or if I didn't. I [i:d44fbec403]meant[/i:d44fbec403] to. Sorry. I didn't mean to hide the fact I was the same person.
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Were you working with the JC's to start this thread off?
You'll note that this thread was started by "Liverpool Writer" and that I merely answered his/her question after someone else had said something about Chick tracts. It was when Roland was in prison in Kenya and I was googling to see what I could find being said about it, when I came across the Rick Ross forum. So when I saw that question I answered it. Nothing sinister at all.
I got IP/username banned as "anaglypta" (though I really don't know why, I'm saying much the same stuff now, as noted) and there's not much left of my posts. When I was able to visit the forums again I signed up again.
I'm really just a London pleb who is a friend of the JCs... I have a myspace (I'm jinnythesquinny there too) which will clearly show I'm a real person.
It should be obvious I'm not Dave or a pawn of Dave-- I'm sure it's obvious to anyone who isn't biased into assuming bad things. Once again, more incorrect supposition. It's getting tedious.
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Jinny, unless you are choosing to deny what is being said here, what people are saying does contradict your experience. It is obvious we do not agree.
Sorry, very bad phrasing on my part (I was just back from the pub quiz and was tired). I meant it's not going to change what I know from my experience.
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"Hearsay" is an interesting word. It does not apply to us as we did have direct experience of the things we say. We are not speaking from hearsay, but from experience.
[i:d44fbec403]Me[/i:d44fbec403] hearing about your experiences on a forum is hearsay. How do I know anything about the posters?
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I'm not going to post after this one in this vein of discussion. It takes too much effort to reply to all the points made and when there's no guarantee they will even be seen I simply can't be bothered.
Like all people I feel obliged to stick up for myself and my friends when I hear untruths about me or them. That's all I wanted to do. I'm not going to get drawn into this on the long term.
The fact is, I really don't care. Christianity is rubbish. The JCs are the only group (as opposed to individuals) I've ever met who make Christianity interesting. But since I find the whole idea of being in any group abhorrent I couldn't care less what some other groups are saying about them.
I'd be more impressed if there wasn't a ton of false assumption and tired stories about the JCs here. I'd be more impressed if people weren't so happy to just believe anything negative about the JCs and dismiss anything positive.
If Jesus were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave at what passes for "mainstream" Christianity these days. How a man who advocated hitting the road and spreading the good news, taking no purse or spare clothes, who taught love and the importance of being true to the right thing ended up being the figurehead of a heretic, pharisaical, capitalist and narrow-minded bunch of schisms, denominations and outright lies I don't know. This especially when most of those groups think he was actuially God? It's mind boggling.
I don't believe Jesus is God. But I know that if I did I would want to follow everything he said down to the last detail. The only people I've ever met or heard of in modern times who appear to have that attitude are the JCs and groups like them. Their lifestyle doesn't suit everyone, clearly. It was obvious to me from the start of my interaction with them that even if I wanted to I would never fit in with such a disciplined and devoted order of things and that I enjoyed my vices too much to be a committed member.
Perhaps some of these ex-members should have considered more carefully what they were doing before they joined. The JCs are very clear what joining them entails. Crying "brainwashing" just seems like a convenient excuse for making a mistake.
The next time you buy your favoured brands at your favoured supermarket, or recite a Creed, watch TV, or go to work even when you really don't feel up to it: ask yourself who is brainwashed.