I found that to be rather comical and desperate. Comical, because he ADMITTED to being an apostate and doesn't realize it. Desperate in that, he is trying so hard to discredit Jehovahs org by showing those older publications like they are hidden. They are not hidden, they are just as HE implied....OLD!
Agapa,
I was a Witness for a very long time, all my life until August, and I can assure you the Watchtower tries very hard to discourage ANYONE from reading their older publications. We had some in the library at the Kingdom Hall I attended, but if anyone wanted to look borrow them to read, they were subjected to an interrogation by the elders as to their reason. Merely being interested wasn't reason enough it seemed, and even research was discouraged.
The Watchtower are very afraid of their older publications, why else would they try and have the Quotes site, which is made up of solely things the Watchtower has printed, closed down? They are afraid because anyone examining those older books and magazines would soon become aware of the many doctrinal changes that the Society have made over the years, and would possibly come to the conclusion that myself and many others did, that the Society are nothing more than a man made cult.
This man doesn't need to try very hard to discredit the Watchtower Society. Thet do a more than adequate job of that themselves with their many flip flops over the years.