What is it with hardcore Jw's who think that everytime an elder speaks everyone should drop what they're doing and listen?
I was over a relative's house the other day when two elders came by for a shepherding call. They wound up talking to the wife because the husband, who fell away after the 1975 fiasco, was hiding out in the back of the house. I and my spouse left abruptly because she, a loyal jw apologist, was incensed that he didn't want to go out and hear what they had to say. Just what did she want him to do? Since his wife was willing to listen since she still believes, why should he be compelled to go out there and put up with that nonsense? It's my opinion that he was making himself scarce so as not to cause a problem for his wife, but my wife feels that he was hiding because of some percieved problem he was having with his conscious. Apparently, to her, he wasn't doing what he is "supposed" to be doing thus he was obviously having a crisis of conscious. The reality of the situation is that she wouldn've been happy unless he was out there sitting quietly, listening, and agreeing with everything "springing forth" from the elder's mouth as if these words were being spoken by God himself.
I guess if you're not going out selling magazines door to door or going to the almost daily propaganda meetings, there's obviously something wrong with you.