I'm encouraged knowing that there are people out there who see what's happened and I am not completely alone. I have had a hard time being an "active" witness for a long time primarily because of the what I saw as a very real conflict with the scripture that says, "you'll know my disciples if they have love among themselves." This "Love" inside the congregations has so many conditions I have observed including in my own family that it never felt like real love to me. My relationships within the congregation I have kept guarded for many years because I am not a brainwashed automaton, and I was always very guarded in what I said to people. Even now with friends I still have I've known for decades I have to be very careful. And that is NOT true friendship. The "friendships" inside the congregation IMO, are all at least slightly dysfunctional.
Now even though I have felt this way for many years, I still could not reconcile to myself that I did not have the truth, and I had resigned myself to accepting things for the way they were/are and I would just see how things played out in the future.
So on one hand I am glad the GB has played this hand, because with all of my resistance to the JW brainwashing I still avoided "apostate" info, which includes criticizing a hang nail of the GB, like the plague. Partially because I had seen some of the material in the past and everything I saw was clearly motivated by bad feelings towards the WT, which i could relate to, but no matter what I still knew this was the truthg regardless of what anyone inside the org did, including in my own family. If the GB had not done what they've done I would never have found Robert's site or been part of this group, and the things coming in the future would have been a big, big shock albeit maybe less than most JW's but still a big shock.
The other thing is though, Robert's info about the New World Order the Banking Cartel and such I already knew about, but finding out he saw things the way I had seen things from actual research of the world scene was such a huge relief for me. I was already more or less isolated from the congregation, and I hate Zoom too, even though it made it easier to "attend the meetings" I've never felt comfortable turning a camera on and inviting the whole cong into my home.
So for me just finding this place is an unbelievable relief. Finding people I can engage with who can think for themselves and I can actually be challenged intellectually, and this whole thing has been invigorating. I have found a new zeal for the truth I haven't felt in maybe 30 years. I've wondered what happened to the zeal I had when I was still a young man, now I realize for the last 3 decades it's because I was being fed more and more milk, and I had very little taste for it!
For these reasons and I'm sure there are more, I am convinced I have found the right place at the right time!