Hi Redhorsewoman,
I doubt you still log on here but I wanted to try. I just wanted to thank you for arguing with me all those years ago on Beliefnet. Back when the great world of sincere JWs and apostates/survivors-of-the-JWs/Evangelists collided online in the early 2000s, I was at the forefront having a blast. I had a hay-day exploring the new battles to be had about real issues and on an intellectual level that Field Service and meetings just couldn't satisfy. Beliefnet, Touchstone, CARM, Yahoo groups, and all the other places where a great argument was to be had, I was there. It was a fun time for JW apologetics with books being published (Stafford, Furuli, etc), we were developing more refined arguments that the WT never got into and we were hitting hard against the Evangelist wing if Christianity. I was never so sure about the more doctrinal side of JWs (Trinity, Paradise, Kingdom, etc).
However, I was the true pupil because I was forced to really really dig and try to put the whole puzzle together. You were one of my sparring partners as I fought for the message that would be read by onlookers and visitors. I just wanted you to know I finally figured it all out. I left the JWs in 2006. I became a FireFighter/Paramedic and I'm about to finish my bachelors degree. I'm determined to repair the damage that the JWs wrecked on my extended family. I would not have exercised my mind and heart had you not been there to give me a reason to. Thanks.
-DriveslikeJehu