I believe in exactly what science can prove. This means that my 'beliefs' are flexible enough to be defined many times over, and as such they are not clamped into one mindset forever.
Unfortunately, according to most religious people I've met, this automatically makes me an unbeliever.
I suppose you have to be willing to have the wool pulled over your eyes in quite a big way to believe most of the teachings of the WTBTS. Unfortunately I was indoctrinated from birth, so it took me over a decade before I had developed sufficiently powerful logical faculties to question those teachings, and finally to prove them wrong to myself. In fact, if I'd known even a fraction of what was really happening (the UN thing, the blood scandal, the child molestation, shunning etc (although I did know a bit about shunning!)), I would have left much earlier. Massive suckage here, people.
I do know this one thing for certain: all humans have follow-the-leader chromosomes. I'm not disputing the fact that I have them too, of course I do. They have as much of an effect on me as on anyone else. But I have managed to avoid the Dub starve-lock where the mind reinforces the perception of an invisible leader to such a degree that it the entire mind is taken over - this is what we call the point of no Return.
My opinion on the matter is simple. If your Organization does not allow you to independently research and confirm it's teachings, it is a complete and utter sham, not even worthy of being called a religion at all.
New research in the scientific community on the functioning of cultural memes, combined with our follow-the-leader DNA patterns, has led me to the conclusion that in fact most forms of religion are strikingly similiar to the WTBTS, considering the fact that they use exactly the same imprinting methods to gain followers.
Not that I'm taking anyone down. The only thing I believe in more strongly than all of the above poppycock is that people should be allowed to decide for themselves what faith they want to pursue, and whether or not they want to worship 'God'. All my other petty mumblings fall along the wayside next to this one. For you Dubs (undoubtably quite a few, we know that there are silent observers here, we're not idiots you know) who are reading this, sorry folks, you are trapped.
Maybe I should repeat something that I once said out loud to a Dub in a mall not too long ago: Your mind is it's own beautiful prisoner.
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
