And it won’t matter how many facts you put in front of me because facts won’t change my mind.
Not too long ago someone very near and dear to me (currently a very active JW elder) said that and one other thing to me. The other thing he said was that there were some things he didn't want to know about, namely anything negative about the organization.
My response was simple and straightforward. I told him that he an I were apparently different when it came to fact finding and learning about things both good and bad. In my case, whatever is out there to know I want to learn about, and if whatever I learn turns out to be factual then my sense of morality and ethics demanded that I let that new piece of information influence me, whether a lot or little depending on the nature of the information. I then told him that my take on what he said is that he prefers to make himself intentionally ignorant based on preferential ideas, and that to me was being dishonest with oneself. He wanted to say a prayer for me. I said I'd like to say a prayer for both of us. He declined.
You can't help a person who wants to stay in a shell of ignorance, or who refuses to let factual information influence their life.
