I believe Carl is a good person as well, as are others on this forum. And I was certainly not attacking Carl, simply responding to his post. Just because I may not agree with everything he may have said, or entirely with his viewpoint is not an attack on him. Again, you make untrue assumptions and false accusations and impute bad motives as to my objectives (i.e. poo flinging). I'm not seeking comfort or support from anyone here, nor do I expect it. I'm not a conformist just to make others comfortable, but I speak what I believe is true, and not for the sole purpose of pleasing men or to tickle the ears of the hearers. Some may not like that, but I think there is a lack of true honesty and the truth should be spoken.
Most of those, who were here, my friends, who are JWs or ones studying have left or gone silent due to seeing serious abuse here on the part of some of the ex-jws, mainly, towards JWs, that some of their group, shall we say, act as if it never happened, thus "gaslighting". There are double standards here, and often bad is considered good, and good, bad. I still have some friends who are members but who never post here or participate anymore, and rarely visit this site because of what they've witnessed. I'm not sure what you view as cruel, that I respond to cruel mocking and ridiculing by exposing it, as well as false and slanderous implications about my character or what exactly? No reply needed. Some of the members here have attacked every post I've made at times, out of pure vindictiveness and spite. That was why Jacobs Ladder was created, to throw off the attacks of haters. So, Jesus did the same to throw off his enemies and attended a festival in secret. Just because one exposes the truth does not make one cruel. Many here expose things about the GB, and even add misinformation to the truth, elaborate, and speculate without proof. Billy Ray pointed that out the other day about a false statement of proof the GB got money for pushing the jab.
And, its also untrue that I respond to truly positive posts in a negative way, as can be seen in a number of responses in this thread. But it seems you prefer to only see bad, along with your buddies, a mob mentality. I'm sure you will get kudos and "likes" from them.
If anyone reasonable reads through this thread, as did Jah-Son, who read through the entire thread, and also saw and spoke out about what happened to Proverbs as well, I think they'd see it as well.
As you came somewhat later, you are very likely not be aware of some of the really unbelievable things that have occurred on this forum. I don't happen to agree with certain viewpoints, negative attitudes, bitterness, constant bashing of the Watchtower, the org, the gov body, but that doesn't mean I hate the individuals who have those feelings and constantly express them. And, I'm not the only one who's become weary of the constantly negative vibe here, as it gets old really quick, and quite frankly, boring. To me, and others, its not encouraging or upbuilding.
Nor do I hate even those who've been extremely mean and cruel here. My hope is that as many as possible will be saved from among mankind and seek Jehovah and find his favour before its too late. Proverbs included; my enemies included, even cruel and mean persons. Yes, there are enemies, Christ had enemies, Robert King has enemies, I have enemies who do like what I say. That's life.
I believe Christians should be kind to strangers, and I didn't see that in the case with Proverbs. I don't see that blaming the stranger for leaving something that obviously didn't sit right with them, from a uninformed JW standpoint, such as 'leave the org and join us' is fair. Even some of those who've left the org, and dissassociated themselves are unsure of their standing with God, or even their own salvation, and yet they encourage others to leave the organization. Though they lack real spirtuality and stability, they want to be spiritual guides for others. Why? Isn't that like the blind leading the blind? Matt. 15:14. Again, rhetoricle. That's a personal decision that each person must make, and is between them and Jehovah God. No one should be coerced or pressured to leave the organization until they feel it's appropriate for them to do so, nor criticized for choosing to stay; in my humble, simple-minded opinion anyway. And I believe it is Scriptural as 'each one must work out their own salvation, with fear and trembling'. Phil. 2:12