This business of being considered weak. I quickly learned....me, pretty well an independent thinker from the moment of birth!!!...that if you think for yourself you are considered spiritually weak!!!!!!
Even in my unbaptised state there was a spell of a few weeks after I'd been terrorised by a perfectly manic sister who was considered to be in "high standing".....her house hosts field circus sessions, say no more.....and I'd come on here for the first time and was having serious doubts...that I was spiritually weak, because I uttered words of common sense!
Mind you, common sense was obviously lacking because I got sucked back in.
Here's one I heard in field service: the angels from the Bible were actually robots made by aliens. The householder thought the angels had feelings, but the demons were older, inferior models made without emotions. This guy thought the Bible was some sort of alien alegory.
I can cap that. Not only did the householder tell us that he believed the Bible was all about aliens and that Ezekiel's vision was of space ships, which I'd heard before in pre-JW days, but that the spaceships and aliens had actually landed in his street, and the aliens had visited him. As if that wasn't enough, only a few doors down the same street the householder also had had space ships and aliens recently landing outside his house.
All of which got somehow missed by the local newspaper! But it's a true story. You heard it here first.