Ohhhhhh!!!!!!
This is by far a thread that hits me. My wannabee friend fits a lot of this bill. Too afraid to become a baptized member, but wanting to go to the two out of the three meetings per week. She knows the meetings are boring and has complained about it to me.
But bring up any subject and she closes right down and supports the "Tower of Power" (except, oddly I have yet to see any reply to all those newspaper clippings on the Boer trial ...hmmm). She even tried one day to tell me JWs do not officially shun people. Its the "fear factor" for sure - stockholm sydrome. She knows better but the fear that things really are not true have her hooked for a long time to come.
So sad to watch now that I know the real score. And of course, the wife, and the rest of my family have to go her and her JW mom's house tomorrow night and do what ... exchange gifts before the first of the month ... to make it look like we really don't celibrate that little old holiday.
hawk