This semester I am taking Critical Thinking/Informal Logic at a local University, and finding it very helpful. Would anybody else like to offer some thoughts on their own experience with this? I'd be very grateful.
Over the last 10 years my secular studies have given me a well rounded consciousness of general knowledge. During this time I began inadvertently storing a list of ideas, facts, and philosophies that I encountered which seemed to contain that red thread of truth, but stood flatly against the doctrine I was raised to believe and cherish. They somehow all peacefully co-existed with doctrinal precepts until the unruly memes reached critical mass, organized and burst forth as if I was John Hurt's stomach, leading to an abrupt fade.
This crucial are of study has finally given me the satisfaction I need to feel comfortable about my incredulity concerning JW doctrine; I've given these doubts the air they need to breath and show themselves to be empty and devoid of value. Few of them are. Even though I 'knew' that the things I learned from secular education were built from logical and empirical stock, I could always hear Pascal in my brain puttin' down twenty on the Trifecta. He's pretty quiet these days, I think he might have found my box of old Playboys.
Eager to hear what experiences others have had with this.