You at least have an opened mind about this.
I was die hard "post-trib" since I had been saved.
I can honestly tell you that as a child I struggled with the words of Christ saying "this generation."
NOT ONE translation has grounds to say "that" generation.
It is a hard one to swallow but one with unmistakable evidence and proof in scripture.
We see the fruits of severe misinterpretation (date-setting). Now we need to see just what we are to do NOW in this "world to come."
That view would reap such a better harvest in the world today.
I became a partial preterist when I started a heavy study of the prophets in the Old Testament and realized that many of the apocalyptic prophecies were referring to the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, the Babylonian exile, & the fall of the temple. So much of the wording in Revelation is heavily borrowed from those prophets (Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.)
Logic follows... why not apply it to the destruction of the temple in 76 AD, and to the persecution of Christians in Rome until the 300s?
Of course, that doesn't mean a future judgement (and an ultimate end) isn't still forthcoming.
I will change my preterist position when I see that the temple is being rebuilt (a MUST for the events in the book of Revelation to occur)... and it doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon since Muslims have control over the original site, and the UN/the world isn't going to yeild Israel another acre of land anytime soon.
But then, only God knows!