I have an honest question!

by FL_Panthers 67 Replies latest jw friends

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  TD

  Is disfellowshipping a legal procedure?

  Your relationship with your local congregation is a voluntary association consensual to both parties. You have the right to disassociate yourself from the congregation. The congregation also has the right to separate from you at the descretion of ecclesiastical tribunal.

  Like is there something I can use to prevent this from happening to me if it does happen.

  Jehovah's Witnesses are legally organized as a congregational church. Your relationship is with the congregation you've voluntarily affliated yourself with and only with that congregation.

  You do not have a relationship with any other congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and neither do you have a relationship with any of the JW parent organizations.

  The best advice I can think of is simply to move away.
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  snowbird

  I don't consider you naive, DS; I enjoy your points of view.

  Sylvia
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  FL_Panthers

  The only thing that is preventing me from moving away is my relationship with my rents and friends. If I leave, they won't speak to me again which is sad
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  ShirleyW

  Miz - Why are you asking about being DFd? I thought you were an elder unless you got removed, but you should know the answer to your question.
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  Dismissing servant

  If you can move away fading (without being DFed) your family still can talk to you.

  When you have been inactive for some time you will be more free. I have been inactive for 25 years now. Nobody's bothering me.
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  KateWild

  If you want to keep your relationship with your parents and friends, you need to stay in the organisation and do exactly what is expected of you, or fade slowly. Unless ofcourse you are about to be df'd for being unrepentant. Are you getting DF'd?

  Kate xx
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  XBEHERE

  fading is the only way to leave and maintain still in family realtionships. If you do that then all you have to put up with is the occasional mandatory talk by an elder/uncle at family get togethers about you coming back, you're causing your parents grief, blah blah blah. Then its all good and they will treat you pretty much normal.
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  Dismissing servant

  I think there is a thread "The art of fading" at this site. TAke a look at it Panthers. It was written some years ago, but it's still actual and important.
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  princecharmant

  Jgnat: Comments that usually belittle "learning" among Witnesses - even when the subject does not warrant such references - show a certain degree of preconception and bias. Could some have read a heap of literary works without coming across "Alice in Wonderland"?

  In the end, some in the non-JW or ex-JW community do take themselves - or their "education" - too seriously. I know you sought to draw an analogy, but it could still have been done without the allusion to little "learning" among Witnesses.

  PC
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  FL_Panthers

  @kate Na I'm not getting df. Just a general question.

  so the best way is to fade I gather?