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In Reply to: Re: Acknowledging mistakes is not an apology posted by Thinker on November 11, 2009 at 19:32:27:
They have trouble understanding how to communicate with people who can think on their own rather than being told what to think.
Not that members are zombies but they have developed a behavior that prevents them from thinking about some issues. They can only make little decisions such as what to wear or when to go out provisioning but nothing else.
In the current case, they are being told what to think about those who were part of the group. Once more they are defining categories of people in order to tell them how to behave with them. Individual love or relationship is, again, still, quenched to prevent their hold. Those decisions are too big for them so they have to be told how to address them.
Not much has changed except that they don't use the term "backsliders". Also, they only define one bad, really bad, category. Bad in the sense of "do not even give water to these people". These poor souls are now called "detractors", and don't even deserve a glance.
And detractors are not only those who are active in their actions. They have expanded the definition to include anybody who asks questions.
Not much has changed: We don't want to have contact or anything to do with those who ask questions because their individualistic thoughts may prevent them from taking new orders blindly. "Detractors" may also poison our barrel with their questions.
And so they discount them completely.
Fear, that's the source as always was. Fear, when what they need is peace.
