Wow, too much to answer.
IT Support, appreciated your response. You asked: What made me start questioning the Society?
1. My easiest answer is passage of time. Family came into the truth 100 years ago. Seen my Great Grandfather die, Grand parents die, Father now in his 60s and ill. The Society just keeps on rolling and ignoring human emotion and any doubt one may have. We are basically now told "so what", you dedicated your life forever!
2. Society's "trap door" as I like to call it. Always an amazing answer when they prove to be wrong. Hence the "trap door". Generation, which I don't have a huge problem with their new explanation of generation of wicked, but it was their BREAD and BUTTER for a lifetime for my family. So many trap doors.
3. Rituals: The truth has become so ritualistic to me. I live where the territory is worked FIVE times a year but you are considered a freak if you say you don't want to pioneer because it is futile or worse that door-to-door is simply antiquated. And then there are the meetings.
4. Absolute required devotion: I don't understand how the Society can admit it's been wrong about so many scriptures but then demand that intelligent people can then sit down and do a verse by verse discussion of Isaiah and not wonder if they speculated and were wrong in the past, WHY NOT NOW??? I look around and wonder why don't others wonder?
5. Contradictions: Recently we had an article that there are NO modern day miracles. Then, you read about how the Nazis stormed an underground printing press and didn't see the literature in plain site. ARRGH! ISN'T THAT A MIRACLE? Does anyone else see that? So many similar things that are plain to me.
6. Martyrdom: I've researched that other fringe religions are just as persecuted. But they need that angle.
7. Boredom: At the Memorial the Brother announced a Special Talk in 2 weeks... The Theme: "Jesus, Who was he and why did he come to earth". WE JUST HEARD THAT, IT WAS THE MEMORIAL! But the say you are "spiritually weak" if you are bored at meetings.
8. Guilt and pressure: It literally is killing me but the Society just says: "Pray more".
9. Science: They quote scientists who support them and discredit the science community when it doesn't.
10. Careers: Can't believe they still do not want people to get educations after a Century.
11. Congregations: I have been just plain lied to, stolen from, propositioned though married, berated by elders who have ZERO love. Don't get it.
12. Judgmentalism: Although I agree with Bible morals and God's right to tell us right and wrong, I hate how judgemental we have become as an Organization.
Nice list off the top of my head eh?
That all being said, I still do believe in Jehovah and Christ Jesus pretty well as they are depicted by the Society. Hence my anguish. I also believe that I will see all my dead family previously mentioned IN PARADISE on EARTH.
NEAT DILEMA AIN'T IT? LOL
5TH OUT!
P.S. Thanks for the apology EvilForce..
