On my job I have dealing with lcoations in different parts of the countries. To avoid any sort of confidentiality breach I will leave out the detail but simply state that a kingdom hall came up in a job-related conversation with one of our locations.
I told the person I spoke with that I have family in this religion and I too was raised in it. This brought on questions as to why JWs can celebrate anniversaries but not birthdays. I explained to her how the WT picks and chooses what their followers can and can not do...and the same exact logic that bans b-days could be used to ban anniversaries...but that purprose of the ban is to keep it members- beginning at childhood- away from any outside the org...at least in any sort of social setting.
I then filled her in on shunning, GB operation, how the GB is "God's channel", the numerous false prophecies, the back and forth doctrines...etc
Needless to say she was very suprised that the org had so much baggage. She is a Roman Catholic who knew little about the org. She keeps on coming at me with more questions. SO I did my best to innoculate her from the WT. Another one saved from the fire! :)