"'This past weekend at the DC, a speaker spoke of how the angels directed the disfellowshipping arrangement.'' And when cornered thay will deny this because its not printed in the Watchtower... what a load of bollocks"
Exactly right, just one characteristic of the 2 tracks of JW law that exist: the written and the oral. The written of course gets changed often enough and is odious enough, but the other is oral, spoken at the SAD, the assemblies, the DC's, or spoken by the CO.
It will remain in the minds of those who hear it even more so than what is written, they hear it while in the hypnotized mode at the DC or the CO's visit; it can never be corrected, since it was never in writing. It is an idea that may remain implanted for years.
"Apparently, the BOE where his brother resided out-of-state also got involved in contacting The Branch because they felt he was qualified for reinstatement, but could not get the consent from the original JC that kicked him out. The elders who disfellowshipped his brother had their hands forced to reinstate him, or so the story goes. I don't know how much of it is true."
It has the 'ring of truth'.
Just one of the aspects of the DF'ing arrangement that is badly flawed; how do the men on the original JC know what is in the heart of the one trying for reinstatement? In my congregation, a girl of 18 (baptized at 12, where were the parents??) was trying for reinstatement. She had been df'd in a town 100 miles away, one known to be parochial, vengeful and backwards. They repeatedly denied her reinstatement, even though they never talked with her, never saw her attending meetings locally. She was trying hard, but the original JC said..... no.
She gave up, never to return.
Apparently those angels couldn't make the 100 mile trip to tell the local JC to reinstate her, being busy kicking out smokers, voters and blood takers.
I wonder if those are the same angels who gave good King David the pass?
