It's redundancy by now. The Society always speaks out of both sides of their mouths with loaded language. There is a reason they have a public version of the Watchtower AND a "study" version. The public version NEVER details what the understanding of the Witness is. This way, they can use words like "disfellowship" and still appeal to the unlearned public.
They tell the public it means the Witness committed a grievous sin without repent, and the public goes "that's understandable because they must be really bad people if they're getting kicked out." Likening it to Catholic excommunication, because it takes a pretty evil bastard to get kicked out of the Catholic Congregation.
But the public doesn't know it doesn't stop at being kicked out, that it means losing family and friends. That you're discouraged as an active Witness in good standing from communicating with people outside of the congregation so you'll have no one to turn to should you be disfellowshipped. That if you were a convert, you'd been trained to believe you life before the Society was a sham perpetrated by liars and sinners, and if you were born in, you were raised believing every non-Witness is a ravenous, evil agent of Satan bent on raping and/or murdering you. So not only is it unlikely you'll have someone to help you adjust, you judge everyone with a baseless accusation ingrained with fear by the "warm Christian" Organization.
And if you're employed by a Witness, kiss your job goodbye. If you employ Witnesses, good luck running your company. And if you do business with other Witnesses, kiss your income goodbye. The public doesn't know this. But Witnesses do.
And because of thought stopping techniques, "Stan D. Man is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses" is just a declaration in the public perception, harmless. But that sentence heard by a Witness translates to:
"Stan D Man is an Apostate. He is to be treated with disdain as he is a rebelious, selfish liar. His words cannot ever be trusted, and anything he offers as proof of his good standing in Jehovah is obviously tampered with because THERE IS NO GOOD STANDING OUTSIDE OF THE ORGANIZATION. Any compassion or sympathy directed toward him will result in an Organization-wide persecution of you and any supporters you may have."
Clearly not the same thing. And they feel peachy about omitting those facts because the public isn't worthy of this information in their eyes. The public calls it lying. The Watchtower Society calls it spiritual warfare.
Jehovah calls it lying.
