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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses who are disfellowshipped allowed to communicate and comfort each other while waiting to be reinstated?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  i just read about a disfellowshipped person who was looking for other disfellowshipped persons to socialize with.

  what does the org have to say about this?.

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  BIAHI:

  No doubt some were secretly jealous.. I sort of hard ‘Faded’ myself over two decades ago. From time to time over the years I would run into Witnesses either in stores or at the few wakes of JWs I attended.

  While some said hello, I perceived others were a little resentful. (Don’t know if it’s because they don’t know how to react to somebody ‘Out’ or it’s mixed emotions because you look like you’re doing well and seemingly happy.) If they ask about me, I tell them I am retired.. Some of them were individuals who were not friendly years ago because I worked and didn’t pioneer.

  Who knows what emotions or thoughts went through their heads?
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses who are disfellowshipped allowed to communicate and comfort each other while waiting to be reinstated?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
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  i just read about a disfellowshipped person who was looking for other disfellowshipped persons to socialize with.

  what does the org have to say about this?.

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  LongHairGal

  VANDERHOVEN & SLIMBOYFAT:

  If the religion is discouraging DF’d people from communicating with each other it is because it is afraid people ‘will compare notes’ about their experience in the religion (“Suzie Q and Joe Blow had the same thing happen to them..”)

  The last thing they want is for people to talk about issues and injustices they faced in the religion and elders who did what, etc. They want to compartmentalize information. This is why they want to isolate each ex-JW so that they have nobody to talk to and will not hear about other bad things that happen there!
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  Today's WT study: build your faith in the paradise by......

  by nowwhat? in

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  daydreaming, fantasizing and using your imagination!.

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  LongHairGal

  NOWWHAT?

  And to add further to this: fairly recently people on this forum and elsewhere have mentioned that people will be ‘told where they will live in paradise’.. And people are commenting on it like it was real. Please.

  This is all just speculation on top of a big fantasy and I have to laugh when I read this absurdity.
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  Today's WT study: build your faith in the paradise by......

  by nowwhat? in

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  daydreaming, fantasizing and using your imagination!.

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  LongHairGal

  NOWWHAT?

  Daydreaming and fantasizing is about it. I remember when I ‘Faded’ from the religion the first thing I did was rid my head of this teaching because I felt it was a cruel trick to play on my mind.

  Besides, the JW religion itself would not able to deliver this global ‘paradise’ - and some JWs and ex-JWs need to think about this.. Really. Can the religion resurrect people?

  Somebody else (a supreme being, master of the universe type)..can only make such an assumption or fantasy happen.
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses who are disfellowshipped allowed to communicate and comfort each other while waiting to be reinstated?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just read about a disfellowshipped person who was looking for other disfellowshipped persons to socialize with.

  what does the org have to say about this?.

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  LongHairGal

  JW GONEBAD:

  I remember back in the day when the JWs were ‘disfellowship happy’ as you say.. But, I was always puzzled about this.

  It seemed they were knocking themselves out to bring new studies/converts in, but yet pushing other people out the door!

  They got their thrills out of expelling people - and probably an even bigger one seeing some people come crawling back on their bellies to be reinstated - only to tell them they aren’t ‘ready’.

  Fast forward to Now: ..happily ‘out’ former Witnesses and would-be ‘Faders’ are blocking elders’ phone numbers or in some instances telling them they are going to call the police if they bother them again.
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  spiritually sick

  by enoughisenough in

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  i thought of this today.

  when i first told a certain person i didn't believe the gb were the faithful slave, that person told me i was spiritually sick....even bought me flowers.

  i threw the vase away because i couldn't look at it without thinking how i was judged spiritually sick.

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  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  You certainly didn’t need any ‘bible’ study again! Besides, it’s really a literature study anyway.

  This wouldn’t have worked anyway on those of us who are Glad to have gotten on with our lives - especially those who have seen behind the curtain, been treated badly or disagreed with wrong teachings!

  They had hoped to re-brainwash someone who has been out of the JW religion and got their own mind back by making them study one of the publications. That’s supposed to get you back in the groove. Then you would be ‘spiritually healthy’.

  Just the thought of it all makes me ill.🤮
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  spiritually sick

  by enoughisenough in

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  i thought of this today.

  when i first told a certain person i didn't believe the gb were the faithful slave, that person told me i was spiritually sick....even bought me flowers.

  i threw the vase away because i couldn't look at it without thinking how i was judged spiritually sick.

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  ENOUGHISENOUGH:

  I think this is just another thing said to control rank & file JWs with guilt and self-doubt if they happen to disagree with anything or see something wrong..

  So, if you or anybody else in the congregation is supposedly ‘spiritually sick’, does that make the elders (or whoever) ‘doctors’ to cure it? 🙄
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  mentally ill/delusional or con artist?

  by enoughisenough in

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  maybe this has been discussed in the past and i wasn't here... what do you think?

  are the gb members knowingly pulling a con, or do they have delusions of grandeur?

  i will go out on a limb here to say that i think they are con artist.

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  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

  I have heard this said before and I am curious as to what you think the worldly organization might be who is “pulling the puppet strings”?
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  April 2023

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  study article 19. how can we strengthen our faith in jehovah’s promise of a new world?.

  17 many servants of jehovah have applied jehovah’s counsel to “keep in expectation”​—even for decades.

  louise, for example, began serving jehovah in 1939. she says: “at that time, i thought armageddon would come before i finished high school.

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  LOSTINTHEFOG1999:

  Yes, remember hearing this stupid phrase from Witnesses - whether it had to do with learning an instrument, indulging in a hobby or even traveling.

  They forget themselves though because if everything is to be ‘destroyed’ at Armageddon - there will be nothing to see if they want to travel (unless they just want to see the mountains or ocean). Nothing cultural should be left standing afterwards. Right? Will the Eiffel Tower or the pyramids be standing?

  But aside from all that, they are squandering their lives and their present time with their daydreaming about what they will do in never-neverland. I agree that some of these things can be pursued now.

  Another thing I noticed when I was there is that JWs are not mindful that the clock on the wall is ticking.. While they are sitting in their many meetings listening to B.S. and engaged in the showiness of the ministry they are getting older and their youth is slipping away.
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  Exercise Patience Regional Convention

  by Rattigan350 in

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  the theme of the in person convention this year is "exercise patience".

  looking at the convention map, they are really using their assembly halls and they are using smaller civic centers or city arena.

  no more huge stadiums.. are they not expecting a great crowd?

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  LongHairGal

  HIDDLESWIFE:

  So many older Witnesses are tired of waiting.

  Too many of them thought the Covid pandemic was ‘it’. Many were seriously disappointed that it was not the End they had hoped for. This means they have to endure living in ‘this system’ getting older.

  A lot of these people never expected to get ‘old’.. They expected to be delivered into the ‘new system’ by now and not have to be dealing with sickness, etc.. Also, don’t forget too many did not prepare financially for a retirement they were told they’d never see! I remember hearing this years ago by a JW who did my taxes and noticed I contributed to a retirement plan.

  These JWs are resentful for several reasons. So this convention probably is about damage control.