Looks as though he has answered our two questions Little Roses.
Thank you NM. I wondered because some seem to think you are a JW, or did think it, and I've been reading up on that particular sect from their own websites. Found this which explains their take on the Lake of Fire, different to yours:-
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2002521
(By the way a new film due for release soon called 'Apostasy' is about Jehovah's Witnesses, particularly one family. It's a UK film. Looks interesting, I've seen the trailer.)
Hello Robbie
It does appear that NM occasionally answers questions, though they are often buried among a lot of meaningless verbiage. On this occasion he has been unusually communicative, confirming on one matter what I'd said in the message of mine that you'd made reference to earlier. The question of blood transfusions is significant, and here NM seems to adopt a more humane - or less dogmatic - approach to the JWs. For them, blood transfusions are not negotiable - it is an inflexible dogma of their faith that these are against the will of God.
Curiously though (as I'd pointed out), their attitude to resurrections and afterlife are more wholesome, and in fact probably much more so than many a fundamentalist sect. Nicholas seems to think that the deceased are held in some sort of suspended animation "in the ether" (whatever that may be), whereas the JWs definitely believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Absolutely no torments of hell, or Lake of Fire, except as a symbol of utter extinction without hope of resurrection. The dead of previous ages are supposed to be held "in God's memory", and it is this 'memory' which is resuscitated. There are various criteria for what happens after that, but I can't think that these are a matter of great interest to anyone here. However, Nicholas seems to think that the 'unrighteous' will have some very unpleasant experiences at a future date, not just extinction (none of us can ever know, and far as I'm concerned, when I'm dead, I'm dead - I don't expect to be recycled, except as ash or manure).
He might have started his own sect, for all I know - there are probably people out there loopy enough to swallow his fantastical outpourings. However, since he seems to spend such a lot of his time here only to meet with people decisively rejecting everything he has to say, I doubt whether he has many followers anywhere. His approach seems somewhat masochistic. Wasn't there a scripture about "shaking the dust from off your sandals" if you didn't get a receptive audience?
If only.
The film looks interesting. I suppose the question of persecution of apostates may vary among JW communities. But there certainly have been some horror stories over the years. The book "Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave" by William Schnell is the classic account. And "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"* by Alan Rogerson shows how the scars of having been a long term believer can live on in the mind of an intelligent man.
*He re-used the title of a book by old 'Judge' Rutherford, a very rich and utterly loathsome sybarite, who certainly continued the tradition in promoting the idea that there's nothing so dotty that you can't get large numbers of the gullible to believe it if you work at it a bit.
