This is quite the blast from the past. It was this specific thread that brought me to JWD and that consequently led to my wholesale rejection of JWism.
I had been inactive for a year or two, but I still received the occasional mass-distribution JW email by well-meaning but misguided witnesses. I had gone about 99% of the way in my rejection of the religion, but I didn't want to do anything that would foreclose the possibility of a return (like reading evil apostate material) in case I later decided my doubts were wrong and the witnesses had been right all along.
One day I received an email from a JW claiming that a Bethel speaker at an assembly had announced that Matt 24:14 had officially been fulfilled and now the end was really super close, just around the corner. Reading it made a small part of me panic and I wanted to confirm whether there was any legitimacy to the email without asking a JW since doing so would prompt all sorts of uncomfortable questions I didn't want to answer.
So I got on google and typed "Matthew 24:14 fulfilled," which brought me to this forum. I couldn't stop reading. I spent many sleepless nights reading thread after thread, confirming many of my suspicions, and obtaining relief from knowing that there were a lot of people like me who saw the same flaws I did. I wasn't alone. I wasn't going crazy.
That was 10 years ago. I went from spending hours a day on here to casually browsing topic headings a few times a month. Losing my faith was a traumatic experience, one that affects me to this day. I'll never be completely "normal." I gave the religion my best years and I've constantly been playing catch-up in my life trying to make up for some of the time I lost. All in all, I think the last 10 years have been good to me. The pain of leaving was well worth it in the end.