When DF'd ones are reinstated are they treated as if they never were DF'd?

by JH 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  cyd0099

  mmmmm.....cookies.
  
  Several years ago some of the DF'd™ people in my old congregations were my friends,so I missed them while they were out and was really happy when they came back. But they always seemed different and ill at ease.
  
  I was pretty dense in those days as I couldn't see why being back in Jehovahs Loving Organization™ would cause them any negative feelings. I guess if I haver been talked to by the elders about my immediate association with my friends I might have wised up sooner.
  
  Now that I'm older and wiser (i.e. out of the BOrg) I see they were weighed down with the stigma of being a bad human being.
  
  And to say one thing to anewme;
  If you take a different approach to being a witness, you won't remain a witness for long. You'll either leave, or be kicked out. The collective can't have individuals reading, meditating, thinking, healing, taking vacations, and engaing in leisure activities. Sets a bad example, doncha know?