From: "******" <*****@email.msn.com>
Subject: Busted
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:39:04 -0600

An elder talked to me tonight and it basically came down to am I loyal to
the "faithful slave" or not. It looks like the next step will be a judicial
committee. Believe it or not I am very scared. They are going to take away
my family and all my friends. I slipped up and revealed some of the things
that I have learned about the society. I was asked where I learned these
things. They suspect me of committing apostasy. I just hope I can survive
through all this. The pain and anguish is unbearable, whatever I end up
doing thanks for the help. Bob

"Comments from the Friends"
sounded like a JW site.

Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 21:00:21 -0700
From: Thimbola@ris.net
To: comments@abaweb.com
Subject: Thanks

Just wanted to thank you for being here. It's been about 2 years ago now that I first started "surfing" the net. Naturally, as a JW I did a search on "Jehovah". I found allot of sites that sounded apostate in nature so I avoided them. Your site, "Comments from the Friends"
sounded like a JW site. Of course I found that you were not a JW site but rather a Christian site dedicated to bringing JW's into the real light. For this, I thank you. It has literally changed my life. I am now serving no man but the Lord Jesus Christ. Thanks for being here. Michael Evangelo

Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 21:56:54 -0700
From: Thimbola@ris.net

...I just remembered, it was around that same time that I asked you for free copies of your newsletter. I was busted. My 21 year old daughter (who is still stuck in the WT) turned me in for having your newsletter and for reading Ray Franz' book. In fact as I was told that I was going to be talked to by the elders, it just so happened that it was the CO's visit. So after his last meeting on Sunday, before the out briefing of the elders, I asked the CO for a few minutes of his time in private. We spoke for about an hour and a half. (Keeping the elders waiting the whole time for their meeting...hehehehe) I told him what I was reading and what I was thinking. He merely gave me the rules that as long as I didn't share these things with others, that I would be OK. The elders never spoke with me. At the time, it was rather difficult, the P.O. was my good friend and business partner. This was in NC. We had to move away to Colorado to get away from the entire situation. Even our landlord was a JW. Thank God we are out. And thank you for your part.