Have you any experience of families whose sons have gone off to Bethel and then decided to not have any more contact with their family and JWs AT ALL very soon after returning?
I ask this question because I know of two families where this has been the case.
The first family had three sons who one after the other went to the London Bether to 'serve' within a couple of years of eachother.
After three years there all three returned home completely different people. They then left home, left dub land, two married non JWs and another lives with his girlfriend. As far as their parents know, they all have children. Not one of these children has even met their JW grandparents. These grandparents complained bitterely about why or what reason there was for this but they never found out and gradually accepted they wouldn't see their sons again. They appeared to be quite a nice couple as well, the JWs, couldn't see any reason for their sons completely cutting them off.
Another case, the son went to the Bethel in London for about 9months, returned home and left JW land forever. He just he didn't want to know about 'it' any more and that was it.
Are people who have volunteered to work at a Bethel more likely to see sense about the WTBTS than those who dumbly attend meetings at a local KH and still believe the fantasy?
A relative who is a Bethelite, recently gave a funeral talk for a member of hubbys family. He rushed to speak to my husband, even though family know we don't 'go' any more, and apologised that the talk was going to be so 'bare because the Society have now got a scripted funeral talk and I can't deviate from their script.'
So are they cleverer than the R and F and at risk of coming to their sense sooner?