Did You "Care" About Disfellowshipped People? (page 2)

Kudra

No I didn't care- I thought they were selfish idiots.

I would roll my eyes at them when I saw them.

At least I wasn't all scared of them and running away... but I WAS an arrogant jerk.

For me it never felt right that you could not even say hello especially if its your own family! Elders always told me it even more important that the family shun so that their loved one would want to come back. I asked an elder once that told me this, "but shouldn't they want to come back to serve jehovah and not because they miss family?" Well I got the "We need to follow what the slave tells us in matters like this."

compound complex

Yes.

To this day gossip continues about my involvement with them.

CC

jws

I had a close friend DF'ed. I continued to call and talk to him and meet up with him in safe places where JWs weren't likely to see us hanging out together. We remain friends to this day and live probably 10 miles apart, 1000 miles from where we grew up. Neither of us ever went back.

Another guy at the hall got DFed. I wasn't too close to him, but we talked sometimes before he was DFed. Afterwards, I'd still nod to him when I saw him in public. He also worked for a JW who had the cleaning contract for the building I worked in. I worked late sometimes and would see him when he'd come in to clean. I'd stop to talk and see how he was.

I was concerned for each of these guys.

There were also people I never really talked to at all in the hall. If they were DFed, I didn't talk to them, nod to them, or anything to them. If they seemed like nice people I cared about them though and hoped they were reinstated. There might have been others who were clearly a-holes that I didn't give a second thought to.

garybuss

Did You "Care" About Disfellowshipped People?

Not really . . . not till I started to receive their benefits myself:-)

ninja

I remember encouraging linda hannah when she was df'ed.......telling her it was good to see her at the meetings.....she never spoke back to me though......shunned again....he he

OUTLAW

JW Kids do as they are told..I was avoid them.."Disfellowshipped People,Eat Small Children!!....That warning was good enough for me!................................LOL!!...OUTLAW

digderidoo

I didn't give two hoots about them, thought they were the lowliest of the low.

Paul

yknot

Deeply.....

By 1979 my Elders shifted our spiritual focus to loyalty to Jehovah above all else and the need to save as many as possible through Christ.

DFed were only considered lost(being led astray by Satan/demons) and we prayed to have them set aside their demon encouraging pride and to be repentent before Armageddon started..... of course DFing was only associated with immorality.

Lucky Calamity

I had a crush on both of the d'f'ed people from my hall, so it was really sad to me, and still is. I wonder how they are doing and hope they stayed out of the bOrg . . . and built healthy, happy lives for themselves, and hope they weren't too freaked out about being d'f'ed. One of them was a born-in and the other was a convert.

Did You "Care" About Disfellowshipped People?