This news of meetings with inactive ones are not RUMORS. They are true. The elders are coming after my ex-wife's daughter. She is a mere 13 years old, and was baptized at the age of 10. (That was a big mistake!!) She and her DF'd mom haven't been to meetings in over a year now. She's not bothering the Witnesses, and is not bringing in any "influence" whatever to their organization. But the Presiding Overseer (of their former congregation) and one of his lackies took it upon themselves to unilaterally schedule a meeting this Tuesday night at 9:30 pm at the Kingdom Hall (following the Service Meeting) with this 13-year old girl, who unfortunately seems to be caught in a contract with a heartless publishing corporation. Can you imagine, a meeting with a child at or after her normal bedtime, to try to persuade her to come back to the Borg, and possibly to ask her those tricky questions "do you want to be a JW?", "do you believe God uses this organization?" Why bother this child? My advice (of course) was to skip the meeting entirely, since the opinions of some ultra-religious people who live across town from you should have little or no impact on your present or future activities!
Edited by - Gopher on 16 December 2002 13:40:26