I purpose a question today. If Julia never confronted Winston, or if Winston never had hope that Julia wasn't part of the thought police, would he still have met up with O'Brian and joined him in his Anti-party group? I believe that Winston would have eventually met up with O'Brian, but it would have taken a lot longer and he may have been taken by the thought police by then. But if O'Brian were to ask Winston to join him without him knowing Julia then his answer would have been no. He knew he was going to be caught and he seems to sit back and wait than to make something happen.