Hey exjw! I'm an exmormon (soon to be official after the latest children of gays policy debacle!) and I recently had a tough conversation with my mom. She believes the whole Mormon narrative is true because "it follows the Lord's pattern".

What she means by this is that as she grew up in the church, she learned about how God calls prophets to speak for him, that the prophets write the words of God, and that the good people of the earth will read what they say and pray to ask God if what they wrote is true. When they do, they'll get a warm fuzzy feeling and a clarity of thought that indicates they're of God. (Descriptions of this feeling vary widely, but the gist of it is that the Holy Ghost is whispering to your soul that it's true and you need to do what the prophet says).

I think this is a trap, because the LDS (Mormon) church sets you up as a child to recognize a pattern that Lo and Behold! only the LDS church fits (or perhaps one of its derivative sects, like the FLDS church, but we don't talk about that much).

I'm curious if the JWs have a similar trap that they teach kids from a young age? It would be so amazing to have an example to point to outside of my own experience, because talking to my mom about this sets off all sorts of "danger, Satan!" signals in her theological immune system, and then before I know it, her mental T-cells are fighting my critical thinking and the conversation is kind of done at that point. Thanks!

(Note: I also posted this question to the /r/exAdventist community to see what they say, if you're interested)