The innocent fact stares us in the face: in the Kingdom Hall you are less safe than anywhere else because your family, your mind and your future are slowly sucked out until nothing remains but the impulse to do as you're told.
That's IF you pay attention.
If you are a reluctant attendee you more easily notice what is happening.
The restive nature of the demolition alerts you to wariness.
This may be the only window of opportunity you get!
Pressure from wife, kids, "friends" and elders hit you from all sides when you show signs of escape.
Tragically, there really is no argument to be made back at them.
Everything is an argument already. A child can't win an argument with parents. The power and authority is too imbalanced.
The same is true in this religion. IF YOU SHOW UP you are already lost.
Moral of the story? DON'T!
When I stopped going I was halfway rescued.
Where I went awry was not knowing the stakes of escape for my wife.
All of my children, by the way, turned out fine. They are happy and totally religion-free!
It was my born-in wife who didn't make the escape.
She tried to self-medicate the pain and loss with alcohol and there was NOBODY to help her; escpecially her JW family and "friends."