http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/199594/1/long-time-lurker
This post got me thinking about just how long I lurked before I posted. I was df'd, but was ready to return. I had corrected my "brazen" conduct and was thinking about going back. But something told me to google what I intended on going back to.
When I first stumbled upon this site I was angered about what I read negatively about the ORG. However, being a 4th generation JW, I quickly came to the realization, the truth was, they were right. The "truth" is nothing but a "snare and a racket," and that that I had been duped for 35 years, and shunned for 2 for nothing but a lie. I laughed at the satire of some posts. I cried at the pain of other posters for what they had to go through and knew they were telling the truth, because I had experienced some of the same. Then I cried that I had lost my whole belief system.
I had to rebuild myself. Redefine myself.
It took me 5 years of lurking before my first post.
I was thinking, just how long did it take most of you all to make your first post here?