Were you present for your DF/DA announcement? Would you choose to be? (page 3)

Fe2O3Girl

I didn't attend a JC, and I wasn't there when they made the announcement.

I was already gone.

tijkmo

i had already started attending a different hall so i wasnt at my original hall when it was read out..

and i cant remember it being read out at the hall i was at but i would have been there

at least when u r announced as df its usually not a surprise to everyone and they know how to deal with you

much worse when u r reinstated because no-one knows that is going to happen and no-one knows what to do

"and the abiding need..is for some human touch..but there are no good samaritans here"

Princess

Was I present for my announcement? LOL! HAHA! And miss one of my regular volleyball nights?

Nothing gets in the way of volleyball. All but one of the men on my team are ex-dubs, it's awesome.

We just had the anniversary of our DAing last week. Is it a coincidence that I ran into BOTH elders who came after us that very week? Haven't seen either of them in four years and then see them both in the same week. I didn't even realize it was the fourth anniversary of our DAing until I read this thread.

I was running one morning and looked up to find myself face to face with one elder who was in field service. I grinned and never missed a step, kept right on running. A few days later I turn the corner at Costco and there is the other elder. Same thing, grinned and kept on walking.

The elder who instigated the witch hunt has two kids who could be DF'd at any time. Why is it they turn a blind eye to their own adult children and come after people like Steve and I? Don't they see their own hypocrisy?

hemp lover

Princess - I never read your DA story before. Thanks for reposting - that was greatness.

lilybird

My husband and I didn't attend our DA announcement as we were too busy raising 3 little kids to care what happened at the time.. My mother-in-law told us after that many people gasped when the announcement was read and some were crying, as we had been Dubs since we were children, and grew up with many of them.. I feel sad for them that they felt so distressed about our decision that they would cry about it.. just made me even happier to be free of the mindcontrol and rules of the org.

kwintestal

When I was a teen and was DF'd my parents forced me to be there for the announcement. It was no big deal.

Later on in life I found out that I was being DF'd minutes after they announced it (I just happened to be dropping a "please FO" letter to the PO). This was done without them even saying a word to me. So, I showed up the next meeting and gave them an appeal letter, stating the reason for the appeal was that the elders never talked to me and didn't invite me to a JC hearing, therefore they didn't follow procedures in the Pay Attention book.

I got a phone call a couple of weeks later from two elders saying that they "prayerfully concidered" my situation (yeah right, if praying involved a call to the legal dept.) and that they were going to reverse the announcement, which they did and I attended.

The announcement read, "This is a revision to the announcement made on (such and such a date) that read 'Mr and Mrs Kwin' are no longer Jehovah's Witnesses. It should have read, 'Mrs Kwin is no longer a Jehovah's Witness. Mr. Kwin IS a Jehovah's Witness."

The day of the announcement, I mailed a letter to everyone in the hall telling them of the problems with child abuse in the org. The should have recieved it the day after or a couple days after the announcement.

I never heard from any of them again, this being a year and a half later.

Kwin

Were you present for your DF/DA announcement? Would you choose to be?