My Son who grew up as a JW but left a few years ago when we did, now attends the University near us and is almost finished with his Environmental Science degree. He say's there's a JW cart parked outside the main entrance to the campus every day. Apparently it's manned by people his age...usually 20 something girls and sometimes guys and there's a older man always lurking nearby trying to look inconspicuous but any former JW would recognize him as an "elder" or "servant" planted there for security reasons.
His take is that little or no attention is paid to them by the students passing by. The JW's are usually looking at their phones or talking to each other (who could blame them) and the "Brother" sometimes has his Grey Bible open but isn't really reading it.
My Son is 6'2" and a handsome, nicely dressed fellow as are his 2 study partners. He says those guys have both made comments, independent of each other about the cart to the effect "Don't those people have jobs or go to school....how can they afford to just be sitting here every day?"
He said to me " I might be imagining it Dad, because I used to be a JW, but more than once I've seen the girls look at us when we walk by and it's as if they are thinking..."those guys are worldly but they seem so clean cut and normal." He said he gets the feeling that they are looking wistfully at all the students passing by and it seems as if they are wondering if they might be wasting their time.
Not so long ago my Son was part of the popular young JW crowd himself but was really put off by the double lifers and especially the messed up JW girls he encountered. Often, because of his good looks, people assumed he was leading a double life himself and it irked him to no end to go to parties and see these kids who were passing themselves off as good JW's, drinking to ridiculous excess and using their parents antidepressants to get high, then on some later occasion, chastise him for not being baptized yet. He realizes that as a former JW who had a bad experience with it, he may be projecting his own thoughts
onto the young people manning the Witnessing Carts but I'm guessing there's more truth in what he says than
imagination.
