Given certain circumstances, I can agree that certain concepts are decent descriptions of what is going on. I'm not interested in belief or a flat out rejection of beliefs, that would likely be behavior affected by the time spent as a JW - either the same old believing mind applied toward other ideas or a reaction to move toward its opposite. Now having said that, I supposed one way the idea of enlightenment is used and could be related to the JW experience is that it simply isn't cool to be ignorant, so one might strive toward the other end of the spectrum.
More important than what you believe or even why you believe is seeing the whole behavioral process of believing in an idea. If thats all that is going on, then it is like you're just collecting mental objects, even if you are informed about those objects. I am not so much interested in the different shapes of these objects, but rather what they are made of. I don't mean how they are made or tend to move either, but the raw material it is made from so to speak. If you understand that, you will understand the most fundamental level of the mind. Anything short of that is like a sophisticated game of billilards where ideas bump up against one another, and that is the level where our JW past may in fact influence our current thinking.
