I do like the people who were hopeful enough to get sucked in and honest enough to leave, and to me these are the ones I feel are my "brothers" and "sisters".
Now I'm at the point in my life where I really just need to make money and try to enjoy what time I've got left. That doesn't mean I've abandoned the search for the meaning of life, but it does mean that, like king David did in his intelligent pragmatism, realize that running around and hiding in caves from Saul just wasn't getting it done and he needed to work, so he got a job as a mercenary working for the Philistines.