A While back there was a post on When/Where Baptised... I thought I'd do the complete opposite :)
As for me.... sometime in the near future maybe
by StifflersErSlayersBrother 14 Replies latest jw friends
A While back there was a post on When/Where Baptised... I thought I'd do the complete opposite :)
As for me.... sometime in the near future maybe
Disfellowshipped for apostasy 6/01 Sunnyvale,CA
1st committee 5 elders.
appeal committee 3 elder + 5 elders 1st committee
I'll defend your right to say it, but it doesn't mean I beleive it.
Well, I was disfellowshipped in the Saratoga Springs, NY congregation. I was actually at my cousins house when I got the call for the interagation. Fortunatly I was stoned beyond belief at the time so I had no problem telling them that I had no intention in stopping my relationship with my worldy girlfriend, now my wife of 22 years. As you may have guessed, fornication was my sin. I suspect I used the situation as my out, as I wanted out at the age of 8 when my parents wanted in.
Hmmm...sometime in '93 or '94, not exactly sure. McCormick, SC
Slayer---REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS!
"Arguing on discussion boards is like running in the Special Olympics...even if you win, you're still a frickin retard."
Never did get disfellowshipped. I was smart enough to fade away. By the time they caught on, I got a job out of town, and they never did follow through. I am a crafty devil.
I'm like Larc, I just faded away. I now live in a diffent town and the Jw's here are non the wiser.
Never DF'd or DA'd. I choose self-imposed, permanent exile...sort of. Moved away from the area where I was well known. Associated with a new congregation for a year or so a moved again, not far but far enough. No one came looking so I must be presumed dead. Deceased April, 1997.
Things I could have since got DF'd for:
Having girlfriend's (now wife) car parked in my garage overnight.
I won't mention the "uncleaness" and "loose conduct" which is subject to the length of "momentary".
Apostacy, writing a critical letter to the HIS at the London, Bethel. Posting numerous criticisms of GB and WTS on discussion boards. Associating with (on line and in person) known apostates and DF's persons.
Things I could get DA'd for.
Working as a volunteer for a church based program of feeding the homeless.
Getting married in a non-JW church, actually a Cathedral, having the service conducted by a woman priest.
Celebrating birthday -- own, wife's, sons and other friends and relatives. Putting up Christmas tree, Christmas lights, sending Christmas cards. Attending Christmas eve church service and singing carrols. Playing Bing Crosby in my car at Christmas. Eating turkey on Thanksgiving after giving thanks.
Thirdson
'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'
I've avoided the axe so far!
I'm atempting to fade away like some of the others.
Ranchette
da's, reinstated....quietly slipped away....not so quiet anymore.
April
April
"Love never dies." Voivodul Vlad Draculea (from Bram Stoker's Dracula-1992)
DA'd myself in 1993.
--Michael
"Any day spent NOT knocking on doors is a good day!"