Witchtowerwitch you stun me with your poor understanding of human nature - and why people believe what they believe. Take me and my mother as two puny but relevant examples:
I never walked into a kingdom hall with my eyes and ears wide open. I was born into it. My mother told me without a trace of scalding that the first meeting I attended was as a baby not quite 1 week old: I cried all the way through it and she could not soothe me.
Years later, now an adult but still given to crying out loud in strange places, I told my now elderly mother that those were tears of protest. Remember the one about out of the mouths of babes? I reminded her. She laughed out loud, thinking I was joking. I didn't disabuse this patient and loyal servant of the Watchtower and loving mother of her wrong thought.
Truth is, I should have gone easy on her: She also never walked into a kingdom hall the first time with her eyes and ears open. Her Bible Student mother carried her into the kingdom hall in 1928. Knowing my mother, she would have whimpered but not had the wherewithal to cry all the way through the meeting.
My mother and I were not victims. But as born-ins, we simply accepted what the Bigger People told us was the truth, was really the truth. The fact that I woke up and opened my eyes and ears and my mother never did says more about chance occurrence than logic.
The world brims over with religious groups that have "nutters" written all over them. But when you're in them, the view's very, very different - and so are the contingenices for staying.