blondie, do you think I haven't been there? I was even set up by elders-they were looking for a way to get rid of me over 25 years ag0....now I wish they had succeeded! All you have to do is wage an honest complaint against one of their own in the good ole boy's club. So if someone objects to the word, mark/marking...find another word for it, but I would be willing to wager on one level or another we have all done it. ( again, maybe not the same animal the WT promoted.)
Marking has it's merits IMO
by enoughisenough 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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blondie
enoughisenough, no I have no idea, but now I do. I have been there. Yes, when I brought this up to an elder with my mother sitting there listening (I was over 18 but she felt I needed another person there), and he knew it was happening and said he would discuss it with the woman's elder husband. Nothing happened by the elders, and I had that "private" marking come up several times over the years about my "sin" that was nonexistent in that case. I asked the elder why they had not approached me if they believe it because it was a disfellowshipping offense....!
He had no answer. My first experience with the good ole boy's club, and not the last. As to marking others, perhaps for me as an individual, but telling others I had marked that person and that they should do so too to protect their family from contamination, no, never. I learned from my own experience how deadly it can be.
(PS I have used the pearls before swine reference, quietly with many an elder)