I am ill so I have been labeled strong in the truth, for sitting in meetings stoned out of my mind on prescription narcotics. When I get sick sometimes I do nothing for months, but when I cameo every one pats me on the head and say "good boy". I believe there is a sub culture of JWs that are "normal" people, have no problem "fitting in", and kicking back. I have even heard ex-jws use a term on parity with "weak in the truth", and call people "nominal witnesses". It seems some dislike "nominal witnesses" because they are not "assimilated" enough to know the so-called "horrors" that go on, so they don?t understand the true nature of why it is so hard and truamatic to be a witness. Um maybe some people are not a naive as others to take the words of dead men too seriously because if they were truly on to something "millions now living will never die".
I just wish there was a way to know who was in the loop, and if any elders are ?nominal witnesses? too. Maybe even find a nominal Bethelite. I have heard stories from a friend that works there. The old-timers get way with saying the darndest things about the place.