Many years after I was DF'd, I found myself at the end of a shunning campaign led by a robotic JW neighbour.
The neighbour had moved in next door to me. He'd even borrowed some tools of mine before he discovered that I was an ex. At this point he began a serious "I'm ignoring you" strategy which I found utterly hilarious as he was the one who had chosen to move in next door to me. Ah well.
However, one day whilst out in the back garden, I decided to give him an earful which I duly delivered across the boundary fence. His response was simply: "You knew the score when you decided to leave Jehovah's organisation". Hmm.
Now, he was actually 100% correct in his assessment. I did know the score when I left the organisation, I did know that I would be shunned.
But! But but but!
I didn't know the score when I joined! Furthermore, as my own parents had made the choice for me as a 8 years old child I wouldn't have been listened to, had I objected. (I did object, very strongly as it happens and was told that my protestations about going to meetings meant that I was the mouth piece of Satan. Scary!).
So I just wonder how many JW's would have actually got as far as those baptism vows if they had any idea just what they were letting themselves in for.
Shunning, paedophiles, the UN farce, avoiding a daughters wedding, etc etc. Something tells me that if baptism candidates knew what was going to happen to them a year or two down the line, a lot of people here would have decided to give the whole thing a miss.
They would never have joined in the first place if they had known the score!
Englishman.