Poor sod. I felt quite sorry for him in the end.
For context, I was brought up as a jw since I was very young. I left 6 years ago (faded) a little before turning 30. I was on here a LOT around that time but under a different profile that's no longer active.
For the past 18 months, I'm back living in the territory of the congregation I grew up in. My jw parents are in that cong and my sister and her family are in the neighbouring one. Since moving, I've been called on by jws I once knew but when they see who it is, they usually just make small talk for a little while and then leave. Not so today. This guy spent quite a long time talking to me but not doing the hard sell. It was the first time I think ever I've had any level of two way conversation with a jw. We spoke about their practise of disfellowshipping, conditional friendships, happiness after leaving, their inability to look at anything that's negative of the witnesses, recent court cases and their consequences. It was kinda mind-blowing how little comeback he had to anything I said to him. We were talking about disfellowshipping and how that cuts people and their children away from their families. He said he knew of a jw who was maintaining a relationship with her df daughter. I replied, 'i have huge respect for her but we both know that she was breaking policy to do that.' Silence and a nod of genuine acknowledgment. 'And,' i continued 'you wont be telling anyone you call on this morning about that side of things, will you?'
Turns out he went through some sort of 'journey' and began looking for religion a number of years ago. He said he had it narrowed down to two, Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology!!! Did he chose the lesser of two evils? Or not??