Interesting. One of the rather exciting congregations I've been in was one located near a university. More than 80% of the JWs and other friends were full-time students at the university nearby. The congregation was usually be in a state of sth like flux, with a student staying for 4 or 5 years, and a few proceeding for advanced degrees (Masters and Phds) at the university. It was always exciting to be there, and the level of contributions (comments, that is) during the meetings was solid, intellectual, and sharp. The rather less educated elders appeared to be more reasonable in handling judicial matters; they were however less accomodating in dealing with themselves; the power struggle was legendary.
The brother/sister students were an exciting bunch; there's always stuff going on. Disfellowshippings were painful and tough; there were two or three that were well-known in those days; more than a few students tooks sides, ignoring the shunning rule, discretely keeping up some form of communication with the disfellowshipped. Reinstatements were quite swift. At least two of the JW students in those days had worldy love interests who attended meetings; there were no widespread talk of misconduct (make of that what you will...) but it was clear this was no ordinary congregation. WT studies were exciting, with interesting spins to study article points; this necessitated two/three of the more intellectual MSs conducting the WT studies.
Much of what's happened since then have made nonsense of what was an interesting group. It couldn't smply have been that once torn away from that intellectual environment, many of these regressed to being "regular" JWs, or that their new congregations got to them. For many, the university was a hurdle to scale, a temptation to resist, until they returned to the "real" JW world.
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