AudeSapere	Re: Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-23-07 WT Study (God's ways)
	Oh!  I forgot this important point from 49&holding: It's pretty obvious to me that people who frequent such a site have guilty feelings about how far they've strayed from God and just want others in likewise situations to stroke their fragile image of themselves. Actually, this is so highly offensive to me that it kind of makes me angry.  I have zero guilt for leaving.  I have tremendous guilt for keeping my life in limbo for 13 years. I was a walk-away believer.  I was an exemplary witness and full time pioneer for several years.  One meeting I could take the hypocrisy any longer so got up an walked out.  But I still believed.  I lost almost all of my witness 'friends' because I did not attend anymore and I could not talk to them about why I had to leave.  Even my family kept distant from me.  I did not associate with worldly people because - well - they were not Jehovah's witnesses.  In short, I became a hermit of sorts.  From the age of 31 thru 45 I did not date, did not smoke, did not do drugs (except the ones administered by my doctor for cancer treatment).  I worked full time and went home alone.  I lived alone, ate alone, slept alone.  And I believed that I was doing this to honor God while waiting for his organization to realize their serious errors and correct their ways. How DARE you make such a blanket accusation to those of us who have given up so much for a lying organization masquerating as god's sole channel of salvation that the reason we struggle to come to grips with life and truth are guilty for straying from god. You are making a broad, uninformed and inaccurate assumption.  Shame on you. But still welcome to JWD.  Whatever your reason for being here and posting, stick around and look thru some of the old posts.  A good place to start is the 'BEST OF' section found on the home page.  -Aude.
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