That was all I was really saying. My thinking is intact. I know what Brown says and means.
The fact is that listening to the interview, not reading a transcript, I could say that Brown
did not lie nor did he say JW's are not claiming spirit-direction.
I know he is misleading, but I examined it as a JW might do. I did that because I would
know what a JW would say, and therefore I would not even bother to try to prove anything
to them by showing them this interview. It would be a waste of time.
I think I was clear in how a JW would give him his "outs" on his exact words. If we try to
nail these guys on their exact words (not-in-print, especially) then the JW's see us as
radical apostates.
The interviewer did a fantastic job of getting Brown to say the misleading quotes, but it would
be up to the individual to realize that he is admitting something huge or it would be up to
the individual's cognitive dissonance to dismiss his impromptu words. Most JW's would do
the latter.