Only one elder showed up at my place (poor guy), only a couple hours before the memorial, wanting to invite us, after our having not been to a meeting for about two years. I asked him what his real reason for being here was, and he said he was the only one to volunteer out of all the elders and that he was my friend. I told him he was never my friend. He actually does not know me at all.
My wife came to the door telling him: "We know when the full moon is!" .
We both spoke forthrightly to him, even telling him how negative he was about everything, to which he said his wife tells him the same thing and he responds by making fun of her.
When I mentioned about the organization, he said it was just like any other on earth, and I called him on that and said "Exactly, it is just like any other." He was starting to get visibly perturbed.
I told him we are no longer in a box, to which he says, "There is no box."
He never did get around to asking us the all-important question about the FDS, which must have po'd his father-in-law waiting in the car for him (who can't say three words without mentioning 'faithful slave'). He only said he did not want us to go around claiming to be JW's, to which I replied: "What, in front of a draft board?"
He left with a disgusted look, never to return.
S