A few posters have asked me questions re my background, so, here is a potted version of my 54 years as an Earthling:
I was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the north of England.
My father was an air-traffic controller and was transferred to London Heathrow when I was quite young. He’d flown many missions on Lancaster bombers during WW2. My elder brother had died before I was born, and as a result my father was given 48 hours compassionate leave. During this time his aircrew flew over Germany with a substitute and was shot down, in effect, my brothers death saved my dad’s life.
He was ripe for conversion, and , when the witnesses called in ’54, he grabbed it with open arms. I bitterly resented this outside intrusion and would play havoc before the meetings. By the time I was 12, I was totally brain washed with the result that I attended the ’58 Yankee Stadium assembly where I was baptised.
Throughout my late teens I gave public talks, pioneered, and was also the holder of 2 ministerial posts. By this time we were living in Weston super Mare, where I live now, having moved to where “the need was great”.
One day, in ’72, I was at the group study, when we read about a prophecy that referred to “wheels within wheels” with “eyes in the rims”. It was as if a mental curtain suddenly opened, and I realised -instantly- that I had never believed any witness dogma with my heart, it had all been on a cerebral level.
I never went back to the KH, a few months later I was DF’d for associating with other DF’d persons.
It was only in 1990 – 18 years later – that I started to research the WTBTS and had anti JW letters published in my local paper. My wife, who was never a JW, did some incognito investigative work with witness elders on female equality while she was a student at the University of the West of England in Bristol.
I’m known in WSM for my strong anti-DF’ing views, I’m pleased to having been instrumental in aiding the departure of a number of JW’s from the clutches of The WTBTS.
That’s it!
Englishman.