waiting, are you going to tell us the poster so we can read his threads? Now I'm curious.
Metatron, this is a great subject, a question I ask myself all the time. Neither my husband nor I are dummies. Yet I bought into everything, and was an exemplary witness. Pater always had questions. He might be just a little bit smarter than me- Either that, or his family is just slightly more balanced and he was a bit less brainwashed than I. I remember though, all the time I used to say "I know this is the truth, but even if it weren't really the truth, we live so much better lives because of it anyways. Who would want to leave?" Naturally, at the time, I thought "worldly" people were incapable of being happy, fulfilled, moral, ethical... and anyone who left and was shunned certainly deserved it for "bringing reproach on Jehovah's name." No regard at all for the lives ruined and families destroyed because, after all, they brought it on themselves. Sheesh, how dumb was I? or should I say--how indoctrinated?
Look what it has cost me: education, comfort, friends, and that damn paranoia I carry around all the time. It's justified too. My parents still to this day snoop our house to find evidence of "spiritual shipwreck." (Hey! there's a couple of phrases for the list!) And yes, we're changing the locks. No need to derail our "fade."
Odrade