I got so pissed off yesterday after this phone conversation...he's such a sweet man, but very much under the control of the Watchtower. We both agreed that we missed each other and would love nothing more than to be able to do some stuff together and have a relationship, but he said, "That's all up to you." And I said, "Oh really? Well if that's the case, let's plan a trip or something in the next couple of weeks." And he said, "Well there's more to it than that." I said, "You mean I've got to become a Witness again in order for us to have a relationship?" And he said, "Well...when you put it like that it doesn't sound right." And I said, "DAD, THAT'S BECAUSE IT ISN'T RIGHT." His same old reply to everything at that point: "Well we just see things differently, and I just hope that one day you can change your point of view."
It's just so frustrating that there is NO comprehension of thought when talking to a Witness.
I told him that in order for me to go back to being an active Witness, I would have to profess to believe things that I know are wrong and unscriptural. He said, "Well those things don't really matter...what matters is that our DOCTRINES don't change...they'll always be the same." So I brought up that the 1914 teaching is the bedrock of ALL Witness teachings, and the "generation of 1914" teaching was just totally changed in the last year, which makes the 3rd or 4th time that it has changed total. And yet again, his response, "Well I don't know about all that, and I don't have time to do all the research that you have...so we'll just have to disagree on that."
So frustrating. 2 Thess. 2:11 is proving to be so true in the case of my parents and other family: "For this reason, God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false." (New American Standard Bible)