I was sitting with my to-the-death jw mom eating dinner tonight while watching the show 'Dateline' on NBC. It was an innocuous little program on happiness. The narrator for the story got about 30 seconds into his presentation and mentioned something about the part of the brain that controls our happiness. I made an offhand comment about how that was interesting and my mom responded, "Well, you know who owns that show?" Not even thinking about it, I mumbled something about General Electric and started to go into how I read Jack Welch's biography some years ago. My mom interrupted me and said, "No, I mean who do you think owns that show now?" I couldn't think what she meant. Did she see something in the newspaper or on the header page for Yahoo! about some company buying out GE or Vivendi? Nope! "You KNOW that demunz own that show?!?"
Honestly it didn't dawn on me what she was talking about until I got home a few minutes ago and opened up jwd. It's funny to me how I can be quite intelligent about some things and quite dense about others that are right in front of my nose. That has got to be one of the main reasons I won't ever be an effective anti-witness. I spend so much of my time just trying to keep from laughing out loud or saying, "Oh mom, that is a bunch of bullsh**!" that it never crosses my mind to try to use the comments she makes as an argument against her brainwashing. Or worse, I have an epiphany minutes or, like tonight, hours later and after slapping myself on the forehead like in the V8 commercials that, "I coulda had an anti-witness conversation!"
Just so you know, demunz own the program 'Dateline'. I don't know if that is official jdub reasoning or just something she picked up from her fellow inmates at the hall. I lean towards the latter.