Do you have stories - past and present - about being completely floored by JWs responses to your predicament?
I don't have many. But there have been at least a handful of exchanges in which I knew, even before 30 seconds had elapsed that the exchange was going nowhere fast.
Just over 20 years ago, my dear JW aunty had heard from another source that I had doubts about the Watchtower Society. I would never have dared tell her or my uncle because they were "very strong in the truth". She phoned me and without even asking me how I was, got straight to the point:
"Steve, I heard that you said that you cannot ask questions in Jehovah's organization. Of course you can ask questions - even the Watchtower asks questions!"
Flabbergasted by her steam-rollered opening sentence, I replied in a squeaky little voice,
"What do you mean?"
She thundered her reply:
"You know perfectly well what I mean: The questions at the bottom of the page of the study articles!"
I must have weakly agreed with her - I can't remember exactly how the call ended. But right then I just knew she lack the capacity to ever understand what it was like to be harrassed by doubt - and in one strange sense I admired her bombastic "innocence" almost as much as I feared her simpleminded dogmatism.