The two forums I post on are this and http://forums.somethingawful.com
Recently a thread was started about "godspotting". It is a hobby wherein non-believers attend a variety of church services, simply out of curiousity or an interest in sociology. Most "godspotters" are atheist or agnostic.
One of the aforementioned "godspotters" attended a couple of meetings. To my knowledge he had no previous experience with JWs and is not affiliated with any religious organization. Here are his thoughts:
I've been to a JW service or two. Long story.
They have the most boring services imaginable. They last for two hours and it's mostly like being at school, except instead of learning about science and history you're learning minutae regarding their interpretation of the Bible, and how to most effectively convince others that said interpretation represents objective reality. There's no mysticism, no ritual, nothing in any way interesting. Their speakers are rotating members of the church, so none of them are professional and they sound like community college professors delivering uninspiring lectures.
To my consternation, they never explain in any of their services the real nuances of the Bible. Like how you could take seriously a passage that suggests that a man could be so blind drunk that he didn't recognize his own daughters - but was still able to get it up and impregnate both of them. No, really .
They're a Seventh Day Adventist offshoot, so I imagine that's how the Adventists are too...
Here is the thread
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2993989
Thought it merited crossposting.