One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan ( a person who pretends to have expert knowledge or skill that he or she does not have ) power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozle tends to persist as new ones arise. Carl Sagan.
What Carl wrote helps explain why it is so difficult for us to help our loved ones to acknowledge that they been taken, being bamboozled, they don't or won't admit that they have been deceived, duped, confused, and captured by the Charlatan known as the Watchtower, Governing Body, Faithful and Discreet Slave, Anointed, 144,000, Writing Department, Legal Department, Service Department, and any other dept. under the direction of the Governing Body.
For those of us who have accepted that we were once bamboozled, it was painful to admit, yet we took steps to release ourselves from this captivity, and a hard lesson has been learned. Hopefully we can be of a help to many others who lurk here and family members whom we love so dearly.
When was it that you realized that you were a victim of a charlatan, and was bamboozled? For me it took 33 years to realized that I have been bamboozled! (Duped. Deceived, Confused and Captured.)
Blueblades