Thanks for your comments back Musky.
You may find that the word "mean" is a mild word to describe JW's...most of us can think of much worse words to use....but thats because we have been hurt by them or we have been robbed of loved ones, or maybe we have had years of normality stolen from us as children. This is not a personality meanness we are talking about, it is a conditioned way of thinking...a mind set where they believe it is the right thing to do. There's a difference between ordinary meanness and the meanness that comes from one's conditioned thinking.
I agree that you will encounter meanness in any church you attend....but few churches practice the severe meanness we have described. That's just my thoughts on this but with all due respect to yours.
Regards, Beck