""Our future kings the governing body"".
WTF is planned?
Greeting a person(who was removed from the congregation) at the Kingdom Hall now becomes a matter of conscience
by RULES & REGULATIONS 20 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Beth Sarim
"'They never lie"".....
I forgot that one.
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Listener
If they are still sinning why are they allowed to return to the meeting when the Bible specifically says to remove them? They need to be reinstating someone before they attend a meeting but that doesn't suit the GB.
In the article they distinguish between an apostate and other sinners, using the 'no greeting' rule towards apostates. If a JW is to use their bible trained conscience as to whether they should greet someone removed then they need to know whether they are an apostate or not.
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RandomUserName3500
I don't know if this is going to change how they act. Maybe some will.
My last meeting was 9 years ago this 4th of July weekend. Just stopped, cold turkey stopped. No conversation with anyone about why, no fading. One meeting I was there, the next gone. Not DF'd, not disassociated, no 'wrongdoing', no apostate attitudes, just gone.
Over the next couple of years while I still lived in the same small town, I saw a witness occasionally at the grocery store. Every time it was the same thing, eye contact from down the aisle, they would immediately turn around and go the other direction to avoid me.
Walked into a business where a bunch of sisters were sitting together. One of them said OH my he's here and they all got up and immediately left.
If you are not a publisher in good standing or better you should be avoided. Just being in sight of a used to be publisher is enough to be adversely effected by their evil influence unless you are at the KH. Even then the evil used to be publisher must come in at the last minute, sit in the back close to the exit door so they can immediately leave after the closing prayer so they can't spread their evil influence.
So now they can say hi. Nothing else will change in their heads. Ex pubs are the human reincarnation of Satan himself. It's ingrained in the brains. Their Bible trained conscious tells them this.
I can see it already. Say Hi is ok. Say Hi, how are you and you're in the back room getting counseled for excessively communicating.
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Vidiot
If the net result is more confusion…
…sit back and watch the show.
😎
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Beth Sarim
& confusion thickens. The plot thickens.
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stan livedeath
RandomUserName3500
how do you know if some sort of ""no longer a jw" announcement had been made--or not?
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Biahi
Also, are they going to announce who is apostate, and who is removed for other reasons?
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RandomUserName3500
Stan - I don't for sure. I would hope my family would have said something to me. There was absolutely no contact for months after my last meeting. A couple elders stopped by to invite me to a 'special' talk some Sunday later in the year. I said thanks for stopping by and letting me know. Left it at that. If they df you don't they have to let you know of the process even if you don't go? Nothing hinting from me that I was no longer a jw in word or writing. Nothing in writing from them either.
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stan livedeath
/\/\ i get that. It was announced i couldnt be d/f--as i wasnt now a JW ( i resigned years earlier ) but i was now deemed to be apostate because of my conduct and treated the same as d/f.
I never got any sort of notification--either a phone call or letter. I found out because one young member told my wife what was announced.
This was over 40 years ago.