Welcome hopelesslystained. Please write on. Don't know your story, but I was really paranoid about revealing anything about myself when I first got here, kind of like I was hiding out from the mob or something. I feel a bit less paranoid now, but since I have already lost all my JW friends and family in my fading away, I really have nothing else to lose, as I have to honestly tell them all I am never ever ever going back to the organization for any reason and that is pretty much the end of the subject for all but one lone friend who is a fringe JW I would say.
On the subject of Ted I believe I saw just about all the GB at a few major assemblies over the years--they all struck me as arrogant and my gut told me they were, but my brainwashed JW mind told me that these were men of authority and they were acting in an authoritive godly manner. Actually they all reminded me of used car salemen.
cybs