A girlfriend of mine first introduced me to Lloyd some years ago - she thought he was great.
I didn't rock the boat, but after conversing by email with Ray Franz for some years until he sadly passed away I found Lloyd a bit too lightweight.
Still, he did seem to have a good, honest hardworking team around him and I really liked some of the people he introduced back then, Sherrie D'Souza being one and of course the evil Kim!!😉😉
Then, not long before his fall from grace I started to find him a bit too full of himself, cocky and arrogant, but kept my feelings to myself.
Shortly after that it was revealed what sort of lifestyle Lloyd was really living.
I asked my girlfriend what she thought of him and she admitted she was having doubts about him too before his 'Scuba Trip'.
I think yes, anyone can make mistakes and god knows I've made many, many mistakes in my life that I still bitterly regret to this day.
But they were my mistakes. I take full responsibility for all my actions in my life. Everything I have wanted to do I have done it.
Before I eventually faded from jw land forever I've been reproved - privately, publicly, been disfellowshipped, reinstated been a regular pioneer, ministerial servant, elder, resigned, been removed, made a servant and an elder again then resigned and every single part of it all is all down to me.
I think a bit of humility and a genuine apology would have made things much better for Lloyd - but as yet I don't think he has it in him.
I personally feel he is a man without a conscience or any moral compass - these qualities are surely at odds with much of his online work with victims of abuse.
The fact that he can't see this or refuses to see it is what I think will eventually lead to his complete online demise...
He's become a figure of fun and ridicule and that is not a good position for someone who judges the watchtower or discusses high profile jw cases of tragic physical/emotional/sexual abuse.
Just my personal opinions - other opinions are of course equally as valid.
