I'm not a JW but a friend of mine who is a JW invited me to the memorial service at the KH this year. I was raised Catholic but now I'm agnostic/atheist. One thing that struck me was how horribly sterile and boring the memorial service was. The Catholic mass isn't very exciting, but in the beautiful church there's at least something to look at, and there's live music. The KH was drab, the people were dour (except for right before the meeting, where I was love bombed), and the music was fake. I caught myself smiling at how horrible it was. On top of that, the hall was maybe 25% full, and this was for what my friend said was going to be a busy night. Heck, at the Catholic church, Easter and Christmas would be abcolutely packed - standing room only - easily over 1000 people - and they usually had three or four masses each holiday weekend. I'd say the memorial service had perhaps 50 at the most.
Is this typical of Kingdom Halls? For those long-time JWs out there, do you see congregations dying, or did I observe an anomaly? Are they all that boring and dour?