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Originally Posted by Hope
I noticed that my attempt to give legitimacy to the report while giving a plausible explanation of how the confrontation could have occurred got absolutely no traction but rather a wild scenario was put forth of a training exercise on how to abuse defenseless saints.
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Yes, it was a wild scenario that I put forth but what made it wild?
That nothing like that could ever have happened? Tell me, then Hope, how DID the practical functions of the eldership such as this get passed from one to another? I have trouble believing that this isn't at least in part an important reason for the extra-local character of the meeting. Making sure everything is done appropriately there and then as well as in the future?
Tell me you have never known men so insensitive and I will believe you that you knew none then. But I have known men whose minds worked just like this and was myself victim of one of them, which activities were performed in express support of the mission of LSM and the Local Church.
I stated that my story was purely speculative but I also began by expressing my concern that having meetings of this kind opened the door to many such speculations.
Dismiss my story by merely countering that it has no foundation in any factual reality you ever saw and I would respond that you simply never saw it.
But that does not make it "wild."