12741984, i guess that depends on what you define as provoked
Posted by jrocc, Wed Mar-04-15 12:41 PM
>it may not seem that to u...
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>and this is a man who is about to marry a JW
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>if you provoke it...it's not persecution
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>trying to rely on the literal definition without context is
>dishnonest
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>if they were to be left alone...the hostility wouldn't
>exist...
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>yes it's an overreaction but still
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to me, i'd say that provoking someone would be bothering someone who has already expressed to you that they don't want to be bothered and you continue to bother them anyway. that is not this. we don't know who we're going to come upon on a daily basis. how would i know who wants to be left alone if they didn't tell me previously? even if that was provication, it's still certainly not justified. and before you ask, yes we do keep track of who says that they want to be left alone. we do not go back to those homes.
>by that definition...JWs persecute those they disfellowship
>and the worldly...
that is not even close to being the same thing at all. people who have been disfellowshipped knew beforehand what would lead to that. that's like saying someone who gets suspended from the NFL for breaking a pre-existing rule is being persecuted. come on.
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