Hi Tom: I have been out of the organization for 9 years. For me it was never about hearing the same arguments against the WTS, or hoping that somehow JWs in general will suddenly hop onto the Internet and get the truth. Here is why I post and what this is about for me.
I gave 25 good years to a total fraud and lie. I am free, but I also want to take something back:
1. Help those leaving the JWs to find their own way.
2. Make use of the powerful Internet tool to help people Before they join the WTS.
3. Help with the Pedophile issue so that the WTS will be held accountable and hopefully legally liable.
Am I wasting my time? No. The time I spend is not much, about 10 hours a month, and I don't have to go to meetings. I can be very efficient with what I do ... and I take time away as I need to.
I helped 15 people become JWs. Before I die, I hope to help 1,500 to leave, whether I do this directly or indirectly. I plan to take back with interest what they took from me ... time ... by helping people save their time and not give it to the WTS fraud.
The Watch Tower's religion's main resource and Most vital and cherrished asset is people ... They are leeches on the people ... and it is people that I am concerned for ... and it is the one asset I will claim back. They can keep the money and time I spent. But the people ... the children ... for me, it is war. It is a war to help people get their own personal thinking ability and freedom of choice back ... not to follow a person or organization ... but to follow their own dreams.
I did not arrive at this point until I started posting the Justice Series about a year ago, especially the Pedophile issue. Then, SilentLambs showed up, behind the scenes at first, then last January out in the open. I have been working with him ever since about last October or so.
When I die, I plan to leave this world a little better than when I entered, and one way of doing that is to see to it people understand the nature of cults, and hopefully there will be fewer JWs. Or maybe the WTS will change enough because they are forced to, and then the JWs will become something that starts to resemble Christianity.
That is why I post and stay on forums, and engage in all sorts of other activity. I still have a life, I am not going to cheat myself out of anything. I take time to myself, I write, I enjoy a good scotch, and a fine cigar once in a while ... I go to movies, live theatre, visit the beaches of Lake Michigan and when I am visiting my home state, I go to the ocean ... I mow the lawn, fix things around the house, work hard at my career to help people with their investment properties, and I can may all the filthy lucre I wish, and go to sports events ... and most of all be with people that I love and care about ... and many of those people are right here in these forums. - Amazing