I agree with what so many of you have said. And yes, if you grew up in the cult, you have so much of that conditioning to get out of your head. And if you still have family in, well you can pick out so many of the JW mindset traits and the same, expected reactions to many things. They have lost all individuality.
And keyser sore, (I LOVE Ian McShane in his Lovejoy days), articles from 50 years ago may seem irrelavent, but they prove how crazy and changing this religion is, and so many of the newer ones have no idea of it's history. If something was "the truth" it would not be unrecognizable from it's beginnings, no matter how much time has passed. Sad part is, they don't care or explain it away, or make excuses. But there is a lot to nitpick about, like how they nitpick over many things, like wedding traditions; they pick and choose which ones are pagan (all of them if you want to be honest and go back far enough) and which ones they will allow. Just saying.