djeggnog,
In regards to your second to last post:
I understand the point that you were trying to convey, that those following the prevailing truth of the "present time" are blameless for any changes in "truth" that occur afterwards, and would not be considered apostate by today's standards.
However, I disagree that the answers to mentallyfree31's questions are subjective. It seems your argument is based on the supposition that if someone still believed the things taught be Jehovah's Witnesses in the early 20th century (or 20 years ago) without readjusting their viewpoint to updated "light", they were never really one of Jehovah's Witnesses to begin with in God's eyes. I think that line of reasoning is dismissive, dissembling, and had very dubious scriptural support to say the least.
The teachings of Jesus were a paradigm shift from the teaching of Judaism, and in his reply to the Samaritan woman, Jesus included the worship of the Jews right along with the worship of the Samaritans. There are no further paradigms prophesied in the Bible until the mention in Revelation of "new scrolls being opened" after the start of the millennial reign (which may or may not be a paradigm). Anything else not expressly written in scripture that comes before that time is either human interpretation or false prophesy.
By equating interpretational changes of Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine over the last century with the reply of Jesus to the Samaritan woman, you are elevating the interpretations of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to the same status of God's appointed prophets and Jesus himself, a status which they have expressly denied and a status that finds no support in scriptural prophecy.
In regards to your last post,
Comparing a willfull visit to a known website for former JW's and a chance meeting in a public bathroom isn't even in the same ballpark. Pun intended.
However young and full of "righteous zeal" you feel you are, keep in mind that many of the members here were not "fringe" witnesses swayed here and there by the waves of the sea so-to-speak. Many served faithfully as Elders, Regular Pioneers, Bethelites and other positions of responsibility probably for more years than you've been alive. (An educated guess, judging by your posts, and likely to infuriate you.) Arrogance is completely wasted on most of us.