Ok, I'll be the first to answer my question: For a long time when I crossed paths with a Witness, I would feel ashamed because of being DF'ed. I would feel very uncomfortable and try to get away as quickly as possible from the situation. Sometimes I would feel anger and rage, thinking, why do I have to feel uncomfortable going to the store or being in a public place because of an arrangement (of disfellowshipping) that I consider to not be based on the Bible and is evil?

I feel now that I've progressed beyond these earlier stages. Now when I see a Witness in public I just feel pity for them. I feel sorry for them. The more information I read about the dishonesty and hypocracy of the Borg, and the horror stories of all the suffering ones, that for one reason or another needed help, assistance and a little understanding, and got none. Instead, were emotionally abused, (or worse), wrongly judged, and thrown out with no real help whatsoever...

I guess I'm in a place now where I can see where they are in the Borg, because I've been there too. You wish that you could give all of them a copy of the Crisis of Conscience book and know that they would read it and understand what is really going on in the JW organization!

Big Mitch