I have found certain questions very effective in helping open my moms eyes.
She saw me go from infancy to elder over a period of 40 years.
When I stopped attending meetings, she couldn't understand it.
I now understanding how being a JW causes REAL thinking ability to malfunction or
cease operating all together. The effort to revive her thinking ability has worked to a degree.
She now acknowledges that all is not right in the org and admits that I make good points
and ask good questions.
I asked her to read Genesis 18:22 - 33. I asked
if Jehovah didn't condemn Abraham for questioning whether He was going
to do what was right (pointing out the exclaimation point in verse 25),
why is questioning imperfect men at the head of the JW organization not tolerated?
Whereas Abraham suffered no retribution from God for his questions, why are many JW's
disfellowshipped for doing the exact same thing?
I asked her to read to Acts 17:10,11. I asked, if the Boreans were
considered noble-minded for checking to make sure the things they were
being taught were really so, why are JW's discouraged from following the same course
when it comes to what the organization teaches (Sept. KM)?
I asked her to read 1 Thessalonians 5:21 and 1 John 4:1. How can this admonition be followed
you are not allowed to ask indepth questions? Why is a JW discouraged from putting what the org says to the test?
Tactics that have been helpful are, sticking to one subject per sitting, letting her read the particular quote
from the WT publication or bible and then posing the question and moving on to the next point without pressuring
her to provide an answer.
What has helped me is keeping in mind the goal, not to prove her wrong or me right, but
to revive her true thinking ability, so that she will see things for what they really are.