Here is what the Jehovah's Witnesses do right that "hooks" a person intellectually:
The Watchtower religion exposes a portion of the lies, hypocricy, hidden history and fasle information that religion (especially Christianity) has been peddling over the centuries.
That is step one.
The result of the partial expose is it stuns the first time hearer. It helps them gain confidence that the JW's are a COMPLETE source of
truth.
That is where the "good" ends.
The bad part we all know:
The Watchtower religion HIDES the REST of the story. It creates a viral chain of propaganda about itself which subverts the listener's sense of skepticism and curiousity.
It limits severely outside research. It installs fear of "others". It gives one a very active sense of purpose (which, in reality, is nothing more than the distribution of publications.)
The OLD world view (pre-studying with JW's) is wiped out and replaced with the NEW WORLD view.
Once the rest of the world has been marginalized into liars for you---you actually cannot TRUST anybody (especially yourself) to give you straight information!
It took me almost 30 years to figure the real problem out. I've been repeating it often here. The basis for all misleading thought, belief and mind control in this organization is DEPENDANCE ON THE SCRIPTURES as an "inspired" direction from the Supreme Being.
It is NOT!
There is no uncorrupted scripture!
The Originals were either lost or purposely destroyed by the church early on. What was substituted were controlled stories passed off as the eye-witness accounts of people who knew and heard Jesus.
It is a lie.
Without a Bible that authentically duplicates the original, uncorrupt autograph writings you have NOTHING but human interpretation passed off
as Truth.
Until and unless you research this for yourself you can't break free.
It is the single most important step in becoming a thinking and rational person again!
