Faith is comforting, Qcmbr, and to lose it is akin to experiencing an amputation without benefit of anaesthesia. The first defence against mental trauma is denial. Posters like reniaa and debator, when faced with data most logical people cannot dismiss, have a choice. They can accept the data as fact, either absolute or virtual, and thereafter modify their faith to fit it (thereby wrenching themselves away from the Watchtower) or they can deny it outright to maintain the comfort they feel, or they can embrace it entirely and face up to the amputation.