Thanks everyone and Brother Blues, I appreciate the info.
dorayakii, you make a good point about what they interpret, as opposed to what the reality of the situation is. This is where things get more complicated. I never really believed what I was being told. However, I was a child (still a minor) when I disappeared. Since I was never around as an adult or even as a teenager (I think I completely stopped attending meetings somewhere between the ages of 10-12, hard to say when, stopped really paying attention earlier), would they say that I was never really old enough to truly understand what was being preached? Has an "age of reason" ever been set? Would I still be considered an "apostate" or was I too young to really know better and just another wordly person?
If this apostate thing doesn't work out for me, I like the word "heretic" (thanx greendawn), especially since this is the origin of "heretic"
Middle English took this from the French hérétique, which took it from the Ecclesiastical Latin haereticus, both words meaning heretic. The original word was the Greek hairetikos "able to chose" from the verb hairesthai "to chose".
Ahh, choice. This word is steeped in the Catholic traditon. Is this too much of a papal buzz words for the Society to adopt? Quite a juicy word.
Trevor, I see your point about being a black crow. Since crows are shapeshifters, if I wanted to avoid conflict, I could always give up the fence for a litterbox and turn into a cat. Wait, just remembered, cats aren't good, either - esp black ones. Oh, well. Btw, Trevor, I recognize your picture. I believe that that giant ball that you have been trying to avoid has found you on this site. It's going by the screen name "ballistic" and appears to have changed it's colors. Run fast!!
