Faithful Witness, thanks for the welcome :) I would love to talk more whenever you have time. Send me a message any time at all.
I hope none of us become a statistic in that case, but it scares me. Really scares me. I think if you asked 10 witnesses if they would obey any instructions, even if it meant killing someone, and 9 would say yes without hesitation like our mothers did.
If anyone is interested, I've taken to Yahoo Answers recently. There are a lot of witnesses there, responding regularly to questions. I, and a small group of people, are together working to explain from the Bible how the WT rules and doctrine don't add up with what the Bible actually says. They have really jumped on most of the questions, but ones about partaking at the Memorial and blood have seemed to kinda stop them in their tracks. I think deep down, a lot of them don't truly agree with at least some parts of the doctrine, but they follow it anyway. So we're very much trying to get them to look into it for themselves and see what the Bible says. We're trying really hard to close the gap they have between themselves and God. And we could seriously use some backup there, if anyone wanted to jump in on some of these questions/answers.