Cedars said,
I had doubts about the organization BEFORE checking the internet based purely on my own observations and ponderings over the literature.
Doubts....me too. Things like, What would the Society do about the generation of 1914 if time ran out? Something would have to give. Would there be a re-thinking of 1914? If not, what else could change?
There should have been a re-thinking of 1914, but no. To my amazement the definition of the generation changed. Then changed again a few years later. And again soon after that. I felt it had become ridiculous and unbelievable. Nothing more than controlling what people believed.
And I recall a CO visit where he said that to have the Truth you had to have the NWT of the Bible. From there things became more organization oriented, which is to say you had to believe everything the Organization said. More emphasis was being placed on the WTS being guided by holy spirit. The Bible was effectively taking second place to the GB, a very fault the Society had found with Church leaders.
Too many doubts to mention really.
The doubts cracked open the internet, where a world of provable facts against the WTS awaited. Using the internet to examine the Watchtower is the best thing I have ever done.