Were you ever DF'd? For what and how long?

by QuestioningEverything 36 Replies latest jw experiences

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  NewChapter

  I have a couple of private reproofs under my belt. LOL NOW I wish they had just DF'd me! It would make things so much easier today.

  NC
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  Iconoclast

  I haven't been yet but it's a-comin! LOL
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  james_woods

  I was DFd in about 1980 for apostacy (just before Ed and Marion Dunlap and Ray Franz) - no hearing; I just wrote them a letter telling them what I thought was wrong with their doctrine, and they called me on the phone about 6 months later and told me I was DFd.

  I told them that if they thought I cared, they were missing the whole point.
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  Lunatic Faith

  I told them that if they thought I cared, they were missing the whole point.

  That's great, James-woods! Those little jabs that show how little their authority matters.

  I was publicly reproved when I was 21 for loose conduct. I thought their decision was loving at the time, now I wish I had been df'd so I could have reached the conclusions that took me another 17 years. But then, I probably would not have been ready for it.
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  No Room For George

  I told them that if they thought I cared, they were missing the whole point.

  Classic!
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  cantleave

  Never DF'd or reproved (even thoughI did some thhings that I never confessed). I was never on the radar as a bad boy in the making!
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  unshackled

  Yep, DF'd for fornicatin'. But it was a short term, April to early September if I recall....less than 6 months.

  Didn't start my JC out good with the comment "It is a free country, you know I don't have to be here." That drew some head tilts.
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  Alwayshere

  Have been out for about 8 years and was DF

  a month ago for telling the truth.
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  BluesBrother

  , what's the shortest period you know of someone being disfellowshipped?

  I haven't been, yet ....but in answer to the above question a Bro was d/f for adultery then reinstated after no more than 3 months . He had good elder family connections and was himself an elder until it happened and a regular Pioneer, so I guess they wanted him back

  There have been a couple of cases where they made them attend for at least 2 years.. One was on about his third reinstatement and another was a case of adultery, remarry, come back in......which they do not like since they believe they have played the system and got what they wanted......
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  sd-7

  DF'd in 2010 for fornication and apostasy, though really it was for apostasy, they didn't care at all about fornication--my wife was equally guilty and was commenting a month later, after all.

  But really, you can't DF the Governing Body. They disassociated themselves by virtue of "teaching contrary doctrines". Oh? You didn't get the announcement:

  "The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses." Audience: Oooh, ooh.... "I wonder what they did?" "I heard one of them molested a child." "I heard one of them saluted the flag under pressure!"

  --sd-7