So I am trying really hard to get my mom to open up her eyes...
Here's our conversation:
Me: "So you liked the film 'The Fifth Estate'"
Mom: Yeah it was really good!
Me: Awesome! Hey, I was reading on Wikipedia about Wikileaks, and somehow I got to know that Wikileaks had leaked a Scientologist "course" online... Do you know what Scientologists are, mom?
Mom: No... are they related to science?
Me: Um... No... They are a fake religion... they are what some people call "High Control Groups" or "Cults"... I mean, how can people not see that these people are freaking INSANE? But no, they truly believe in all the garbage of that group. For example, you pay for courses, where supposedly after the course you reach a certain level of feeling good. But not completely good. That's why you get to the higher levels... but you have to pay. What Wikileaks did was leak out one of the last "Courses" where you learn the "ultimate truth" about them.
Mom: What is that?
Me: Some really craaaaaazy stuff. That there was an alien named Xenu who came to the Earth and destroyed lots of people with Hydrogen bombs, it's really messed up. But people believe this stuff like it was real! You know how they manage this?
Mom: How?
Me: They take people's families away from them. They do a form of "disfellowshipping" but THEY have to shun THEIR families. Once you are in there, if you want to come out, they can physically harm ex-members. So it's really hard to leave!
Mom (uneasy, ready for thought-stopping argument in 3, 2, 1...) Yeah, but that's Satan's religions. It's amazing how all these false religions are all about the money... and what you said sounds like something from Satan.
Me (thinking to myself): DOUBLE FACEPALM
Me: Yeah... oh well... we're home... So, what were you planning on making for dinner? .....
So yeah... same/similar features of JW's in OTHER religions: Satan.
JW's can do no wrong... in my mom's mind.
So yeah... the JW's don't get "indirect arguments"...