Hi Daniel.

Just want to say how much I enjoyed your story: told with both intellectual honesty and emotional courage, a far more compelling and heartfelt read than anything I’ve ever read in the propaganda and recruitment tools of the Watchtower Society

Looks like we both started our path towards freedom at around the same time last year, and hit major similar waypoints on our journey. My “breakthrough” issue was discovering the deception and quote mining in the “Life — How did it get here” book, and I encountered a similarly dismal and eye opening response from the elders to the issue as you did. I even wrote a detailed letter to Bethel about it, essentially begging for answers that would help me save my faith.

I never even got a reply.

Now I find myself in a similar position to yourself. Not disfellowshipped but with my life totally thrown out wholesale and needing to be rebuilt from the gound up, and with one eye on the disfellowshipping sword that hangs above my head and could fall at any time, taking my JW parents away forever. Sadly, I could not leave with my then girlfriend and so my exit cost me my friends, my family, and a woman who was very special to me.

It was a terrible price, but I pay it gladly to be free of the deceit and mental imprisonment of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.