A nonJW friend asked me about my past with the JWs today. He knows that I have basically quit. I tried to explain how I came to see that they weren't the "true religion" but it was hard to do without telling him about what the JWs believe. I sure didn't want to get into that. I told him how they expected the generation of 1914 to not die and before I could explain that they changed what "generation" meant he said, "Aren't they already dead?" I agreed with him and said that the JWs use the scripture about the light getting brighter and how that means new teachings or doctrine changes are "new light" and he said, "That's just a cop out". He asked how the date 1914 was attained. I won't even go into that suffice it to say he figured out it's a crock of $#!*. He asked about the hours spent knocking on doors to people converted ratio. He couldn't grasp the idea of using door to door work if it was not successful. I tried to explain the control aspect of it. He asked about how much money the religion has and what they did with it. I told him millions but I had no idea where it went.
It was interesting to see a completely free thinking person's reaction to these beliefs and practices. We were on the same wavelength about the WTS being a money-making machine, but it took me most of my life to realize I was being duped and he saw through it immediately. Mind control is a very real thing.