Going out with a bang (page 4)

freeborg

At last truth from the platform! WELL DONE

gravedancer

Little Toe,

I am puzzled about one thing. The pic on your website shows you with a beard. Yet you claim to have been raised a JW and have been an active elder until January 6th 2002.

So is that not your real pic? If so is it old? If not how did they allow a bearded man to give public talks?

GD

DIAMOND

LT,

YOU ARE THE MAN!!! That took guts and major balls. I only wish I had the nerve to do something like that. Stay in touch and let us know how things are going. You are my HERO!!

diamond

David Gladden

Follow your heart and you will never be lost.

The outline is great but if by dropping the "JW bashing part" you mean you dropped the items after "Then," namely the UN and other stuff, then they were left with only the parts where you emphasized Mercifulness, Bible reading and that you felt recently you were one of the annointed. They will interpret it to mean you may be mentally deranged and not an example to follow if that's the case and I'd like to think it wasn't. Still, you deserve commendation for exercising courage and hopefully it will make a positive dent on some of those who heard what was presented of the outline. May Jah bless you for goodness.

Mercy, a Dominant Quality for True Christians
Song 77, not 62

Intro: - HG Wells - Country of the Blind

Hos.6:6; Matt.9:13; 12:7 - I desire mercy and not sacrifice.
Steeped in God's quality of Love, balancing His Justice.

John 9 - Prime example of both sides

9:3 - Works of God revealed in him
9:5-7 - Jesus brings light to world
Jesus is merciful in healing blind man on Sabbath
9:15-34 - Pharisee's are merciless in condemnation
No respect for man, nor give him dignity
v20 Parents in fear of their authority (1 Joh.4:18)
v34 Cured man cast out of synagogue
9:35 - Jesus' love for cured man
9:38 - Cured man's worship of Jesus Proskuneo (ASV, ISV, KJV)
9:39-41 - Blind or sinful

Do you see?
Mercy not sacrifice. A dominant quality of true Christians.

Add: I had personal experience of God's mercy to a sinner.
6 months ago, relationship with Father heightened
Suddenly a realisation of the importance of Jesus
A relationship with my (Thomas)
An unquenchable desire to read God's word
Bible reading like a letter, leaping from page (Rom.8:15,16)
Friend's, without a doubt, I became a Spirit anointed X.

Then: Not everything in the garden is smelling of roses
Serious doctrinal differances, like Christ's position,
Who are anointed to the calling to Christian life, etc.
Dates, such as 1914, 1935, 1975, etc. - False Prophecy
supported by serious mistranslations in the NWT
Hypocrisy of affiliation to UN as a NGO for around a
decade, until exposes in October (3 months ago)
writing supportive and complimentary articles in g.
whilst all the time condemning it in companion, Wt.
I was no longer blind, would I sinful ignore what taught?

Thus: Whilst I love you all unconditionally, and my door
remains constantly open to all of you
I hereby step down as E in XXX Cong of JW's
step down as Minister of JW's
DA myself from the org JW's & affiliates
IBSA, and WTBTS of GB, Penn., etc.

I love you all, individually, but collectively this is goodbye.

slipnslidemaster

Brave and yes praying helped you.

That will give the congregation something to talk about for years.

Slipnslidemaster: "Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't
mean I'm naughty."
- Britney Spears

BritBoy

WELL DONE YOU Little Toe!!

A big pat on the back! Questions... did ANYONE know you were going to do this? I am thinking your wife here... how much of a shock was it to her?

Brit!

They wouldn't have made the cane if you weren't meant to break the rules!

LittleToe

It's been a long day at work, and I leave for home, soon.
I'll see if I can get back, and maybe into "Chat", later.
Just to answer a couple of questions:

I left out the "Then:" paragraph. When the time came it didn't "feel" right. The letter covered the UN thing briefly, and I left wads of information on the lecturn, regarding it.
It'll be easier just to listen to the sound file, when I get the blinkin' thing posted!
I cut it down to a 20 minute Public Talk because I wanted to keep 'em awake.

I couldn't tell anyone, except a couple of ex-JW friends who were praying for me.
My wife and family would have grassed on me, and that would have been that (they admitted as much).
I have no children, thanks to borg encouragement and reaching out for Circuit work.

I started growing the beard after the Elders school. By the time of the talk it was just two weeks old, so I was kinda surprised they let me on the platform.
One of the kids apparently asked if I'd grown the beard because I was leaving - LOL.
The picture is from last weekend (week five), when I travelled to England to visit some of the new friends.
My wife hates it, so it's days are numbered, as I may make that small compromise.

Man - I only just put that Profile page up, this morning, and already it's got over a hundred hits!

Later,
Ross.
(AKA - LT / LittleToe)

bigfloppydog

CONGRATULATIONS; You deserve an EMMY for that one. Probably did what some of us wanted to do. You got guts, all the best for you and your family.

Simon

wow little toe! That must have taken some courage - I would have loved to have seen everyone's faces as you got down from the platform.

"To your own self be true"

Going out with a bang