Well, I?m not at all surprised by your response, Bastiaan. Its somewhat typical of a reaction from those whom I see who come to discussion boards such as this (either by accident or design) and spout out JW rhetoric, only to run away when someone confronts and challenges them about what they believe. It?s not only typical, but to be expected. You don?t come off as bored, but instead threatened.
Keep telling yourself if you like, that YOU (notice the big YOU) are making the decisions in your life and not the Watchtower Society. However, we here who have been in your shoes (and in my case before you were born), don?t kid ourselves about such things. We realize that you as a Jehovah?s Witness, have very little choice or say in the matter about what you can do, who you can speak to, what you can read, what you can believe, what you can think, even right down to what medical treatments you can or can not receive. You?re only deluding yourself to believe otherwise. Would you be willing to die rather than accept a life sustaining blood transfusion? You know, it also used to be against Watchtower policy to accept organ transplants, but the Society reversed its decision and now it?s perfectly acceptable. Is this the kind of leadership you would be willing to lay down your life for? What if you need blood today, and tomorrow they reverse their decision on the blood issue like they did on organ transplants? That you would be willing to die rather than accept a blood transfusion, speaks to the kind of mind control that people refer to when it comes to cultic group(s) such as the Watchtower Society, Bastiaan. Maybe you don?t see it this way at this point, but that?s only because you choose not to. That?s about the only real choice you have.
Well, you have to follow your path as you go through your life. I can only hope that I have maybe planted a seed in your mind that one day may take root. You only have the one life Bastiaan, don?t live it for a group, live it for yourself.
Good luck,
Steve