Yes, I noticed that many years ago. Nearly every teaching is "backed up" by quoting another WT publication. This gives the illusion of scholarship. But that's all it is.
When I first began to notice this, I thought, "Well, I'll have to read that article to see what IT used for evidence/proof/etc."
Of course, I often didn't, but many times I did. It wasn't long before I started to see a pattern, there is a dearth of independent material to verify almost all JW doctrines and practices. The are mostly derived in-house and simply asserted without any independently verifiable backing.
Look at the relatively recent "overlapping generation" nonsense. The "proof" is the use of the word "evidently" in the sentence introducing the teaching, asserting that the WT writers--and they alone--KNOW what Jesus meant when he prophesied:
"He evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation." Watchtower 2010 April 15 p.10
That's it. No REAL evidence.
Let's review: It's a cult!
