I have to ask about the way you worded the above quote... do you still consider yourself a JW, even to yourself or to non-JWs? It's been my observation that even those that have to pretend to some degree because of family or whatever, they still manage to stop referring to themselves as a JW.
I think someone who has mentally freed themselves but has to put on appearances is not really a JW anymore. Sure, their number counts on the WT books, but if you're mentally free, no longer under their influence and are working to undermine the WT control on friends/family still in, you're a double agent. You're not really a JW...you're an ex-JW working on the inside.
Good question........being honest, I don't know anymore. UC are you playing old man mind games on me? LOL, I don't want to sound like I'm being evasive, but it really does depend on what day you ask me. IF you would have asked me this past weekend, I would have said no. Today though, I still consider myself a JW for the most part, I just don't acknowledge the Governing Body or a Faithful & Discreet Slave any longer. I've mentioned before, there's much I agree with coming out of WT Land. Just so happens to be the handful of issues I do have with them are biggies.
Sticking with the thread topic, I think to some degree some posters might get a little sensitive on here. Its a message board at the end of the day. I always liked what I heard an inmate say once, "if ain't worth killing over, it aint worth fighting or arguing over." I feel the same way. No reason to get overly sensitive by what people post here. At the same time, some posters call themselves dispensing tough love and while not as eloquent as TD or Leolia, their heart is in the right place. So if it comes off crude, we're all big boys and girls, we deal with it. The thought behind it is what counts.
