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It took me all day to finally get to view your comment, with the problems at Free Republic.
No, I'm not a JW.
I got involved with Bible studies, after a "significant emotional event" in the late 80's.
While searching for "answers" I found I didn't really know what my religious values were, at least not enough to answer the questions I needed to answer.
To make a long story short, I got 5 different study and cross-referenced Bibles, and started reading, and searching.
As long as they run in parallel, I didn't do much.
But where one took off on a tangent, I dug in.
I'd build a decision tree with one side of an issue on one side of the paper with all the scripture references, and the other side of the issue on the other half of the paper.
All issues would turn out to be very one-sided.
Of all the referenced study material I found, anything that wasn't backed up with their references listed, I didn't trust.
I'm not really an establishment kind of a person, but I like to dig into the Bible.

I don't know if that answers your question.
But if I can't back it up with references or with scripture, I usually don't post it.
People are more deceived by Satan and his false churches than they know.
And they despise the truth.