I just read the account of a an elderly lady who passed out in a Distict Convention in Canada today (06/20/08). It seems that as some of the attendees were trying to help by doing CPR, the "brother" on the platform a few feet away speaking did not even pause. When his talk ended a few minutes later and the lady was still being tended too, the platform folks just announced the next speaker as if nothing was happening. This account reminded me of similar acts I encountered while in the J.W.'s that showed they had no compassion. Back in the late 80's, I was at a Circuit Assembly that was held in an old movie theatre that the Witnesses had bought and converted into an Assembly Hall. In the afternoon program part of a light fixture near the front fell and struck a man sitting two rows from the front and while you heard some gasps from the audience and some of the "security" detail went to render aid, the brother speaking did not miss a beat and even spoke a little louder as if to direct the attention to him. I was really chapped about that situation.
Later that year because I had to work a lot more hours to support my mother-in-law and her two daughters (my wifes much younger sisters) eho had moved into our home, I had to step down as a Ministerial Servant because I did not feel like I was living up to the requirements. Even though the elders tried to talk me out of it because I was always available to work wherever I was needed, I insisted that I had to step down as my conscience would not let me continue. Two weeks later when they read my steeping down notice, I expected them to say I was stepping down by choice so it would not infer I did it because of wrongdoing. Instead the presiding overseer got up and said "This notice is to inform the Farmers Branch congregation that Donny Reed has been deleted as a ministerial servant". It sounded so cold and uncaring that I did not attend meetings for several weeks. Unfortunately it would be another 4 years before I gained the sense to leave for good.