Re: When is a Quaker a Quaker?

Engineer wrote:

<Cut as he declares that parts of previous statements he has made are
not true, and I have no way of determining which is true and which is
not.>

Let me first inform you that I have an inclination to absolutist views,
either something is right or it is wrong. (This should not be taken to
imply that I regard myself as any better, more moral, or truthfull than
anyone else, just that I am a fallible human being with a view of life
that one should seek to be on the side of right.) I am not a subscriber
to absolutism in the theological sense. I do however take statements
made in a forum such as this as meaning what they say. If you inform me
of something, such as the foundation of a meeting incorporating as
members your family, I will take it that you are writing the truth. If
as a result of your writing something which is *not* true I also
believe that, then you will have to consider carefully that some, such
as I, do so. I believe what you write, in this forum, to be the truth,
if it is not, then the problem is of your own making, you now leave me
in a position that I cannot tell when you are, or are not, making
statements that are true.

Perhaps you should outline your position with regard to this thread,
using only statements that are true, I will then be in a position to
reply to statements that I can accept as being true.

--
John
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