Jeff,
I'm not as good with words as the majority on this board, but once I start talking and have the ammunition I need (everything I need and use is found on the web........and I always give the credit to the originator) look out. I'm then on a roll!
Ask me to explain something on this board (getting thoughts from my brain through my fingers onto/into a written response) and I am like a babbling idiot. My thoughts get lost somewhere in the path from the brain to the keyboard. Ask me to explain something to an audience and I can talk like nobody's business.
That is what I did on more than one occasion. The last time was last Thursday, May 24th at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. I was asked by an old friend of mine if I could come give my testimony on being a JW and leaving the JW's and talk about some of the false doctrine they spew.
It was my pleasure.
One of the women there turned out to be the neice of a couple I have known for over 30 years. We had a great conversation after my "talk" and the next day.........I got an email from her Aunt. The family is torn apart because my old JW friends part of the family refuse to acknowledge that anyone else exists........mainly because the Aunt who sent me the email DA's herself 2 years ago and is now a Christian. She actually took her other sister in to live with her after a nasty divorce but this sister would not even think of getting a job to support herself. Guess what? This lazy sister is a very ACTIVE JW. Once she heard about the letter her sister sent, she would not speak to her. (even though this fleshly sister provided for her). The elders of my old KH told her to leave and live somewhere else..
Bottom line............Lazy sister is living with an OLDER JW couple and is still not working. Her brother and sister in law (the one's I have known for over 30 years ..............refuse to help the deadbeat JW relative.
Man.....what a script!
Since I am successfully faded for about 5 years now........it seems that my very active stance of speaking out publicly on several occasions in churches will now make me a FAMOUS apostate in the SE Pittsburgh, PA region...and someone to be avoided like the plague. Am I upset about this..........................YES I AM !!!! Not because of being "APOSTATE"..............but I don't feel I have the confidence of public speaking out.
Reason being............I would really like some media publicity to make it more astounding!! I have been called by the president of the local Christian TV station to see if I could come over to talk about my experience. But...........I feel like Moses..........not able to articulate in the proper manor. Is it all negative feelings in my head? Could be......because I used to give talks at the Circuit Assy. and even spoke at Three Rivers Stadium in Pgh. I just don't feel like I would be anyone to be listened too on the TV. In a setting like a church or whatever............I do good.
A writer might be able to creat a script of my thoughts but to me............it wouldn't sound like it was from me.
But anyhow..............anytime I'm asked to speak to a group about the JW cult.........I'm more than happy to do it.....and they all seem more informed and enlightened after I'm done.
HappyDad
Edited to say...............Hey Drew Sagan................drop me a PM or a phone call........How you doing?
