I was a JW for nearly thirty years, I felt like a "lame duck" when I left, but now I have got a life at last!
I have only just got a computer, so please bear with me - I am learning to type too !!
The lies going on, the definate lack of love, the treatment paedophiles and their victims, UN. etc made me realise the falsehood in that Society. At first I thought it was my fault for the way I felt, but after reading Ray Franz's two books I realised that lots of others were in the same situation which really opened my eyes.
My husband has also come out of the Org. after 22 years.
Hope you are able to both gain from and contribute to the good feeling on this board.
There are some strange characters here with personality delusions, but apart from that they are all pretty straight. Oh, maybe you could exclude the likes of hippikon, syn and a few others from that statement
Remember - walk with cheeses and he will comfort thee.
Hey Kaz, welcome to the forum, from a Canadian member of the forum.
So very glad you are here.
As for the posts etc., I know there could be several reasons you may not see it where you'd expect it to be, but Simon has been busy tweaking the forum and stuff...so no worries, it'll eventually show up where you placed it.
But, you showed up just nicely on my screen: Welcome to the forum Kaz.
Just out of interest, how long did you 'lurk' here before you posted?
I was in for all of my childhood and early 20s, so at the age of 42 I can just about say I've been out longer than I've been in!
As for the posts not showing up that's a problem a lot of us have. The 'friends' section isn't quite finished so you'll have to wait a few days for your posts to show up there under normal circumstances. The page you look at if it's bookmarked is the default page which only updates every few days. One way around this is to force your browser to go to the next page manually. If you look at the address bar you will see the word 'default' at the end of the address. Replace this with the number of the next page you want to go to, for example:
