I knew a Presiding Overseer in the congregation I attened who was possibly the strangest person I ever met. He took a rigorous position toward the society's view on EVERYTHING!!! He was against many things ....including....Science Fiction, Fantasy, The X-Files, Disneyland, Cartoons and Football. He'd like to lecture people about Football...A LOT!!!! Particularly about its paganistic roots (he called the cheerleaders "temple prostitutes"). He also got offended every time someone brought up the fact that he use to be a Mason even though he routinely praised the Masons. One of the elders in my congregation told me that when his kids were little he refused to take them to Disneyland, not becuase it was far away, but because he disregarded anything associated with Fantasy .... and ... possibly a talking animal. He also use to tell a lot of dirty jokes, some were incredibly vile. The fact that he knew I had Jewish heritage gave him a lot of material. One of the things that annoyed me the most though, was the fact that he always use to refer to the Society as "Mother" (i.e. "Mother always tells us to read the magazines", "We wouldn't want to upset Mother")... IT MADE ME WANT TO PUKE!!!! On more than one occasion he would also minimize the evil deeds of the Nazis (his wife was a Hitler youth) and when I told him that I had no problem watching R-rated films he asked me if I was watching porn (?) I've never seen him more upset then when he found out that I sucked on my thumb after I got a paper cut. Of all the people I've ever met, nobody made me feel worse about myself than him. So.....thank you for letting me rant. Now, who was the strangest JW you ever knew? mAybe you can suprise me by finding a more demneted human being than the on mentioned above...
"I'm gonna send you to a deep dark place and I'm gonna have fun doing it!" -- Miller's Crossing