Hello to all:
First, I’d like to THANK the many posters on this board (and the old H2O) who made my exiting passage through the entrapping maze of WT ideology a relatively expeditious and much less painful possibility then it would have been otherwise. The value of the service you perform in helping to dispel the sense of paralyzing of isolationism felt by those who begin to realize “the truth” about the WTS and its pompous, self-designated status a God’ sole representative on earth today, can’t be overstated.
I’ve been a lurker here for a least a year – and I was finally prompted to write by the inevitable reappearance of the pedantic You Know. While I often enjoyed his posts on H2O (for their passionate intellectual appeal), I personally notice in his current writings a more strained tone, and a vain air of bravado that belies the gradual loss of confidence experienced by anyone of sincerity who tries to defend the indefensible. Having traveled the same roads myself, I might speculate that the old faith buttressing mantras are starting to ring hollow, aren’t they? (If I’m wrong in my assessment, You Know, please appreciate that this is MY vicarious interpretation of something that you yourself may not have yet realized).
In his emotionally honest and thoughtfully expressed closing post on H2O, YK, speaking as an “anointed” representative of the “God who cannot lie” said – “This is it for me. I will not be participating in any other forum.” And yet he is back. Why? Likely, as one astute poster noted in his response to YK’s departure: that the intellectually sterile atmosphere at the KH would force his return. How’s that for fulfilled prophecy? ha, ha.
As I read his recent posts I am taken back both to my own tortured attempts to find ANYTHING in the human drama surrounding us that would lend credence and support to the WT belief system, and my conscious filtering of any information that contradicted the same. After all, if in fact we are living in the time of the end, then there must be SOMETHING tangible going on to suggest that the current sum of life’s experiences reflect something unique, something more than the random tides of human endeavor. Right? Such is the consequence of having failed to diversify one’s intangible investments. When you have all yours eggs in the WT basket, it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. Of course in actuality, you don’t want to see it. It might mean admitting some rather uncomfortable things, and God forbid, doing something about it. Like a committed broker defending an unwise investment in a seemingly attractive, yet failing stock, there is the refuge of denial – that tomorrow, next week, next year – it will turn around and vindication will present itself. Yes, it’s hard to let go, isn’t it?
In what should be inscribed on the doors in Brooklyn as an epitaph, the psalmist said: “Our signs we have not seen; there is no prophet anymore, and there is no one with us knowing how long.”
I guess ours is not the first generation to experience the disappointment and failure that comes from expecting that things might be otherwise, huh? By the way YK, if you’re reading this, I came to this conclusion about Ps 74:9 about the same time you did, along with several others you’ve mentioned. Nothing personal.
More later. . .