I've been thinking about this topic for some time.
Wisdom and Folly. Sages and prophets in the Bible texts and the wider ancient Near Eastern world. Apollo and Dionysos in Greek tradition. Reason and insanity in the modern age. Conscious and unconscious in the post-Freudian era. A lot of asymmetrical pairs which imo are both different from, and related to, each other.
Christianity, from its very beginning, played on both sides of this polarity: on the one hand it claimed the wisdom and knowledge of OT tradition, Hellenistic philosophy and early Gnosticism. On the other hand, it did appeal to different forms of "folly" -- the apparent mania or ekstasis of the charismatic communities, or the môria (perhaps more accurately translated "idiocy," linked to astheneia, "weakness") of Paul's message of the cross, or the blatantly impractical radicalism of much of the teaching ascribed to Jesus (e.g. the Sermon on the Mount).
While this topic clearly exceeds the JW/xJW sphere, I'd like to ask a couple of questions here:
(1) Do you think you were attracted to the JW teaching because "it seemed reasonable" (borrowing from a frequent and revealing WT phrase) or because it sounded (and ultimately was) crazy? (This question mostly addresses JW "converts" rather than "born-in")
(2) Since you left the "truth" (lol), have you been mostly pursuing some form of "reason" (which can include scientific knowledge, plain "common sense" or social "normalcy") or some form of "folly" (whether religious experience or personal fantasy/intuitions for instance)?
I am personally convinced that nobody is 100 % "rational" or 100 % "irrational," but we certainly have very different ways to articulate the two sides of our brain...