thanks for your help. i appreciate it.
my situation is that debating doctrines is pointless since all my close friends and relatives are so into it ( as was i once) that no amount of persuasion or appeals to "logic" can work. only by overwhelming someone with PROOF that the watchtower is - at best- intellectually and factually dishonest can we begin to refute the nonsence that made put ourselves in harm's way ( not to mention irrevocable MAJOR life decisions about marriage/children /education etc.)
i am not entirely literalist in my views on the bible - yet i am amazed at how easily a literalist can defeat the watchtower- and how often the watchtower appeals to non-literal or even athiest scholarship.more surprising to me was how unfair and dishonest the wt was in the way religions' were characterised...
of course good luck finding a well-informed jw- if it's not in the LATEST watchtower then it's like "deer-in-the-headlights" this is a group that thrives on the uninformed. i was personally only confident enough to abandon it because of the massive amount of data available to refute the wt- if only one is willing to look. it seems you ( we) apostaes were'nt so bad after all..