Hi TT2C. With regards to whether or not to print out the info and show it to an elder or another JW at risk of being labelled an apostate - that'll depend on how 'strong' you're seen within the congregation? And it depends on the kind of elders and congregation you attend - some seem more lenient than others. If you're just showing up at meetings, not doing much field service etc, you might be seen as in need of a pep-talk or 'counselling'. It's a long time since I've been a JW. Maybe 'cos there's been so many doctrinal stuff-ups on the generational thing, and other failed prophecies, the elders are more stringent these days?
I know a now-ex-elder who, in the lead-up to 1975 at the monthly elders' meetings, voiced his doubts about Armageddon arriving circa 1975. (I was in the same congregation.) He was viewed as almost apostate, and the other elders started having speicial private meetings without him, about him. It wasn't till the mid 1980s he and his wife and children left the org.
Just by-the-by, I bumped into a JW some years after that, who'd known both me (we'd been best friends) and the elder and his family v well. She told me she'd heard this elder and his wife had begun their own religion. That was a load of crap - but illustrates yet again how those who question and leave the org are often falsely labelled. When I tried to reason with her about one of the JW doctrinal stuff-ups she just cut the conversation and walked away. And we had been such good friends...
Tread carefully if you want to remain in contact with any JW friends.
Love James' comment, above.
