Posted by Kristin [Kristin] on April 05, 1999 at 14:47:45 {6.uz.4vynMctB9oBIfGcoe7EI.M9QY}:
In Reply to: *Funeral and Burial Customs posted by Pardon me, but... on April 05, 1999 at 12:46:50:
G'day Cygnus! Your sudden interest in reforming the organisation is an encouraging about face on your part. What brought about the change of heart?
> while that exercise might be mildly interesting to some, it seems H2O has other more important business to take care of and other issues more relative to reform to address.
Reforming the organisation shouldn't cover addressing the hypocrisy between the GB's refusal to allow a funeral service in a Kingdom Hall for a young teenage boy and others driven by elders to committing suicide, and allowing a gravesite on its property displaying:
Then if we're wasting our time on these issues, why bother reforming? You imply in wanting the issue dropped that you not only want reform, but don't consider this issue a problem. I don't want to belong to an organisation that is engaged in the worst hypocrisy but reform it, but you apparently don't see any hypocrisy here?
This approach isn't credible coming from you. I have read your posts and you feel reform is a waste of time, that the organisation is beyond reform. Why the sudden concern in reform? Why discourage me from bringing this out in the open? Are you of all people deciding the protect the organisation and are encouraging me to remain hushed? I raised this issue and an elder counselled, "Kristin, due to the obvious discrepancies it's you raised its best we leave this matter in the past where it belongs, that we not stumble one another. As far as you and I are concerned, none of this ever happened. Understand?"
Kristin