I came onto this forum with my mind already made up and I wasn't going to let/allow posters change it for me in any way. There is no earthly reason why I should change my mind and the more that posters go on about the guilt of the man the more it strengthens my resolve in believing his innocence.
Those who find him guilty are an entirely different set of people in my mind,to the ones who say he's innocent as apart from myself most of the innocent posters were calm and collected as opposed to those who find him guilty. I know by how rotten some of the guilty posters were towards me and others whereas,not the same can be said for the innocents ? Why's this ?
I'm not a bit bothered about the decision you chose to change tack,but just wondered why both together as opposed to forwardly/openly discussing it,with justified reasons.
You came onto the forum with your mind already made up and dug your heels in/blocked your ears/closed your eyes to anything which might sway you in another direction? WHY? What would have been so terrible about changing your mind?
You see no valid reason to change your mind and the fact that you think others are trying to persuade/coerce you "strengthens your resolve in believing his innocence"? You make it sound as if you sometimes find it difficult to hang on to your "resolve" and that it's more about fighting others than your belief.
I don't actually experience as "calm and collected" (m)any of Jeremy's supporters. There's certainly much self aggrandisement amongst their number, much making it up as you go, MUCH spitefulness, anger, histrionics,goading, threats and blatant lies. As a woman who prides herself on her honesty, and claims to know lies when she's faced with them, are you going to tell me that any part is wrong, of those observations? I will add the rider that this DOESN'T apply to everyone who believes Jeremy is innocent.
Regarding my own change of mind -naturally, I can't/won't speak for Caroline- you must be aware of how ardent a supporter I was, certainly triggered by the adoption issue, and how vitriolic against Julie I was -although I've yet to change my mind about her appalling dress sense. There was no blinding flash, as experienced by St Paul on the road to Damascus, it was a gradual dawning, rather like acknowledging I was trying to hold onto a relationship which had ceased to work, with someone I'd ceased to know and no longer trusted. I felt as if I was, too loudly, defending the indefensible to drown out the voice of doubt. Believe me, it wasn't easy admitting I'd been wrong -yes, I received the derision I'd been expecting- which is maybe why I kept it to myself for a while. It was a relief when I did reveal. It would have achieved nothing to discuss it openly -I'll bet you wouldn't have, either- I needed to get it straight in MY head, first.
