hey onanism...you know me...I don't care. I would love for one of them to come and tell me personally....none of them ever had the cojones to come and tell me...it really sucks there isn't a rule that spanned the entire spectrum.....This is what hurts people the most IMO...no uniform doctrine, but certainly consequences if you do find your conscience telling you that love for your family members is put before religion.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer of the "Come and get me beyatches!" class
I had 2 visits...once they two of my dad's elder buddies came to the hizzouse and there were drunken passes out skaters all over the floor...the other was righ after New Year's celeb and I was still too messed up to talk to them...they never came back and I never got word I was formally dealy with. Maybe cuz my pops is good friends w/the CO or it doesn't matter to them or who knows what...
We let out more than hints. We had our pics up with our faces blanked out. Then we had a birthday party (Valis did it for me and Billygoat) in Dallas with our kids pics all over with Jst2laws and Joy2bfree under our blanked faces. That and my telling everyone when I was baptised, what years I was in Bethel, how long I was an elder and what year I resigned. We even let the world know what town (small town) and state we lived in.
Many of us have let out a hint here and there, only to regret it later.
We let out too much, they came after us, we gave them even more reason to take action by going to the local newpaper with on interview on child molestation as well as an interview on the local NBC news program. It was painful to loose our family and several real friends considering we were hoping to 'fade' and not loose everything. But the bottom line is after about a year of depression we are
BETTER OFF NOW.
No more looking over our shoulder or letting the WT control us or threaten us. It is a hard bullet to bite but once it is over you are TRULY FREE.
This may not be for everyone, but it was the best thing for us.
Winston, I say what I say, and did what I did (e.g. changing my profile), only because of increasingly convincing evidence of WTS desperation, and the likelihood of elevated mole-holing.
Let those pig-bastards turn over the coals of their own roast-fire.
In the meantime, so many folks like you and me have other much more meaningful and healing things to do.