Just thought I'd share. A friend of mine moved away about 10 years ago. He was a MS at the time. He more or less fell away from going to the kingdom hall. Then 3 years ago, he moved back. He goes to about 1 meeting per week. We never really hung out very much after his return. He is almost a generation (real one....not overlapping) older than me and his kids are raised. But one day he invited me to lunch. At lunch he flat out asked a question. He heard through the witness grapevine that I am a borderline apostate and I am getting a divorce. I told him the first part is true but not the second part. He then proceeded to open the flood gates of doubts and criticisms of the Watchtower society. He lacks the desire to do real research and to be honest.....he is still a little bit afraid to. He admits that it is an indoctrinational fear inside him but he is having trouble getting past it. He has no choice but to fade because his father and mother are lifetime witnesses.....with his dad just having been removed from his position as COBE due to health reasons.
And now the good part. We've had many conversations since then. He was absolutely shocked when I showed him....from the WT's own publications.....how many times they've quoted out of context, used elipses improperly, used misleading statistics etc. He was literally stunned. So there's the advice I have to give. If you are successful in convincing a JW to do ANY research....you have to find a way to get them to read something other than society publications (as if most of you didn't know that already). Even with all of his complaints and criticisms of the WT......he still trusted that the information provided was accurate and factual. For him....at least.....the reality set in when he realized that the books and publications he thought were factual were really nothing more than Orwellian thought control devices.