Right off the bat I will tell you this: The primary motivation for this blog is to give an account of my own life, from my perspective, for the sake of posterity. I don't expect that many people will be interested in reading it, other than my own children and perhaps certain extended family members. The reason why this is important to me is because at roughly 33 years of age, I realized that my life was a lie. I was born and raised as a Jehovah's Witness. I married, had 3 beautiful children, and then I woke up. We'll get to that later. If you were to ask one of these Jehovah's Witnesses who knew me about my life, their story would likely be wildly different from my own. There is a tendency to demonize those who leave the organization. What a shocking number of people don't know about Jehovah's Witnesses is that they shun former members. The extent to which friends and family will shun you depends on whether or not the one doing the shunning is considered to be…