Meetings canceled in Sweden

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

20 minutes ago, Tom Henry said:

I'm not easily offended. I can play that game to. However, You have certain privileges not afforded to an honest witness. You get to offend while others get banned by the Admin and Librarian. Since they closed this open forum, Then their rules from the JW only forum should apply here. If this forum is closed but continues to be a forum for ex-witness banter, then, all's fair in love and war. When it comes to the first amendment, no one can pick and choose who they like, open forum or closed forum.

No idea about the 'first amendment' as I'm not American I'm English. As for the 'rules' of JW open or closed forums I've no idea.

I've always thought this forum was open to anyone JW or not. @Witness is not a JW and a few others aren't either. Maybe there are some that never were JWs on here. It matters not to me who I'm sharing comments with, I do not discriminate. 

Jesus said to 'love your enemies' and the Org always used to say 'continue putting up with one another', so that's how i see it. 

But in honesty I don't think I've been excessively rude or offensive, unless I'm just getting less sensitive. And as you say its just 'banter', whether ex-witness or JW. 

I think there is a closed JW 'inner chamber' here for JWs only, if you would prefer to be in that. Though I would think it would be very boring.  Even @TrueTomHarley comes out to play here sometimes as he gets bored in there. 

Christian love to you Tom Henry, I mean you no harm. 

[Guest Tom Henry]

1 hour ago, 4Jah2me said:

I've always thought this forum was open to anyone JW or not. @Witness is not a JW and a few others aren't either. Maybe there are some that never were JWs on here. It matters not to me who I'm sharing comments with, I do not discriminate. 

Then you would be incorrect. They allow none witnesses to be more expressive and insulting, even them. It only applies to a certain few. Then, the guidelines are applied.

• No porn or gore. 

• No personal information. This includes anything hosted on Facebook's servers, as they can be traced to the original account holder. Stalking & harassment will not be tolerated. No missing-persons requests!

• Submissions must link directly to a specific image file or to a website with minimal ads. We do not allow blog hosting of images ("blogspam"), but links to albums on image hosting websites are okay. URL shorteners are prohibited. URLs in image or album descriptions are prohibited.

• We enforce a standard of common decency and civility here. Please be respectful to others. Personal attacks, bigotry, fighting words, otherwise inappropriate behavior or content, comments that insult or demean a specific user or group of users will be removed. Regular or egregious violations will result in a ban.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

10 hours ago, Tom Henry said:

When it comes to the first amendment, no one can pick and choose who they like, open forum or closed forum.

The first amendment ONLY applies to the actions of the Federal, State, and Local Governments, etc. restricting the speech of individules or legal entities.

IT DOES NOT APPLY TO  NON-GOVERNMENT CENSURE OF INDIVIDUALS

Your Boss may fire you for saying something he does not like, or I may throw you out of my house for speech I do not approve of.

... the same with the "owner" of this blog.

You cannot legally discriminate against someone on the basis of race, creed color, or national origin, etc. .... there is a list .... ... but you CAN discriminate against anyone for being too tall, too short, ugly, or stupid.

.... or snarky, and mean spirited, etc.

 

 

 

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

OK I can see I need to be more humble. In future I will try.  But I promise nothing.