It's pretty weird, isn't it? I was doing quite a bit of smokin' around the time the Dubs first called on my door in 1984, and every week between their visits I'd think of all these questions while I was sitting in a cloud of smoke. I'd write them down so I wouldn't forget them. And after several weeks of this, the JW said those by-now legendary words to me, "Well, Mr Monroe, we could go on like this forever. But look, here's this book, You Can Live Forever In Paradise on Earth, that actually covers all those questions you've asked. And more! We could go on forever like this. But It would be more productive if we just started going through the book chapter by chapter."
Which of course I did.
In later years, sitting in front of a warm fire in Christchurch, I did a home bible study with the husband of a Witness, who had -- out of an admirable sense of loyalty to his wife -- relented and agreed to "study" as well just to see if it worked with him. (Maybe that's a bit like someone reluctantly agreeing to a homosexual encounter just to see if they're really gay). I remember going over the "time, times and half a time" dogma and him asking, "Why do you say "times" means two times? How do you know it's not three or four?" And me saying, "Weeelll, it just is. It must be because it fits in with all the other chronology!" Talk about bending the evidence to support the conclusion you're seeking. And he refused to buy it.