An upside down John 1 sounds like a great idea xD I've known one or two ex-JW's who were rejected by their families when they left, terrible stuff.
Yep, if you leave the organization for any reason, you get shunned by everybody, even family. You are looked at as an apostate. If you later decide to come back, they'll accept you but they don't quite look at you the same.
Been through it with them. They are trained to dodge, ignore or divert with canned responses. They can't handle the truth, though a few have.
Serious stuff, the truth (whether what you know is the truth or not is another question entirely). I have stuff of my own that I can almost guarantee they haven't heard or been prepared for. Stuff I really should publish, actually.
Now officially an independent contractor driving for two companies, also with a San Fran business license. Passed two in-depth background investigations - cited as a life saver by SFPD for an incident many (28) yrs ago - I'd forgotten. Pretty cool, actually - am dispatched via apps which monitor your location when you are online and match you up with fares which you choose or refuse. One's own hours. Payment is electronically transferred to bank acct(s). Not real lucrative but certainly a means of supplementing income and meeting people. Will go a long ways toward supporting outreach activities in the City in association with missionary organization. Will begin in earnest after major Dental ordeal and some wrapping-up work here in the Delta, Should escape any outdoor work in this unmerciful climate this summer, at least 8)
And if you happen upon Patrick McGoohan, well, as awesome as he was, he's been dead for years -- be seeing you I myself am listening to a song by Ghost (please do not do the same) and wondering how a group of people can so easily perform material they've written to be blatantly Satanic ('as an act'), but I find it so difficult to outwardly express my faith. Also wondering if art is praise even if you don't intend it to be, and what that betrays of the artist as a person anyway.
xD I'll say 'be seeing you' to people here with little response, and also 'six of one, half a dozen of the other' when asked how much of something I want -- just to be pesky.
Gonna need a car, got approved for some kind of PCP financing thingy (which for all the sucker I'd be as a buyer, fits our situation well and importantly goes to building credit), so researching that and test drive in the morning