Posted by Observer [hendricks] on November 07, 1999 at 12:12:07 {zExURjw8QAKXEKSkVakwYYuWjGb576}:
In Reply to: ****Enter Reality posted by COMF on November 07, 1999 at 09:53:11:
Again, I think some of you are missing the point. In reality it not a question of victory versus defeat. My objective is to suggest a reasonable solution whereby participants can agree to disagree and then move on to other matters.
The issues regarding blood, blood-guilt, disfellowshipping, shunning, dogmatism, false prophecies, inter alia, have been discussed at length on this forum domestically and internationally with no apparent resolution nor ameliorating from the WTBS. What more can we say?
(FYI, I am intimately familiar with the havoc the blood doctrine has wrought as my mother was one of its victims.)
While I disagree with GS's dogmatic support of the WTBS, as an academician I respect his right to defend any position he wishes. Like many of us in the past, he holds deeply entrenched views which you will be unable to dislodge. And as you know, time is a great equalizer!
Observer