the society's new book 'organized to do jehovah's will', to be released in the congregations .
on the 20th of march, introduces a change in the df and da announcements.
announcements will read the same: "[name of person] is no longer one of jehovah's .
In previous posts, some have been mentioning that this will mean no judicial hearings will be needed..that the elders can just decide that by someone's actions, they are no longer a JW. Am I understanding this correctly?
I'm already disfellowshipped, but when I hear things like this, it makes me hate this organization so much. I just want my parents and siblings out of it. I want them back in my life, but I know it's never going to happen. Especially now.
the society's new book 'organized to do jehovah's will', to be released in the congregations .
on the 20th of march, introduces a change in the df and da announcements.
announcements will read the same: "[name of person] is no longer one of jehovah's .
Do we know for sure that there will be no more judicial hearings? Or will they still have the same type of meeting with the "wrongdoer", but the announcement is just different?
being born and bred into the borg i always felt it was the "truth" but i wasn't the one who measured up i was not good enough to be a dub.
but i also had nagging questions that went unanswered by the most learned elders...or at least not answered to my satisfaction.
their "answers" were in fact not really answers but side-steps or attempts to mis-direct my question into an area they could answer.. an example...it always bothered me that we could not examine the contents of what opposers put out.
In one of the Watchtower study articles about 8 or 9 years ago, one of the paragraphs was talking about the resurrection hope and how wonderful it would be to welcome back the children that were sacrificed to the false god Molech. I asked my dad (an elder) how could it be that we would be welcoming back those children when their parents were obviously wicked? We have always been taught that the fate of our children is in our hands. If we are wicked, then our innocent children, who are not at the age of understanding, will be destroyed because of our actions. He never did give me an answer. All he said was, "Maybe there will be a correction later.." Okay........
Does anyone remember this article?
My dad is an elder and mom is a pioneer. I was always getting in trouble because I argued and questioned everything that came out of my parent's mouth. Because of that, I was always the one in trouble, I was haughty, argumentative unlike my brother who was pretty much perfect. He's now a missionary by the way. Deep down I always knew I was making valid arguments, but I was made to feel so guilty for having them. I see now that being that way was truly a blessing because I am now able to see the organization for what it is. I am now teaching my children to always ask questions and never believe anything just because mommy or daddy (who's still a witness) tell you to.
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were people shocked by your departure or was it pretty obvious you were on your way out?
I started sitting in the library for all of the meetings so that I could at least people watch and make the time go by faster. I started turning in 1 hr a month for field service..(I put all the moments together when I would point to the trees or to an animal and tell my daughter that Jehovah made those things..That was my hour in service for the month.) That's when the phone calls from my presiding overseer started. I ignored about 3 calls in a row and at the next meeting, he asked if i had gotten his messages. I said yes and kept walking. It was pretty much downhill from there. Got df'd about 2 months later. I hear that everyone was shocked. Isn't that funny? I had a funky attitude for like, a year, showed up at every other meeting if that, and never went in service anymore, but yet everyone was shocked. I guess it still amazes all of the dubs that someone would want to leave the "spiritual paradise". Vomit.
did you ever dream that you'd be posting here too?
I never wanted to be a Witness. Ever. I was raised in it and I always thought we were a bunch of cornballs. Leaving was NEVER AN OPTION. I never even considered it. Once I hit rock bottom in my marriage, it hit me like a ton of bricks...I don't have to explain to the elders why I'm leaving my husband, I don't have to stay in an abusive marriage, and I don't have to set foot in another Kingdom Hall. I have choices. I never went back.
the parable of the prodigal son.
i will set out and go back to my father and say to him: father, i have sinned against heaven and against you.
" "my son," the father said, "you are always with me, and everything i have is yours.
Witnesses aren't even supposed to clap when a reinstatement is announced. Years ago the whole congregation would erupt in frantic applause when someone was reinstated because they were so happy that someone had "returned to the flock"...(barf)....But now, they are not even supposed to clap because, according to my elder dad, they are simply doing what they are "supposed" to do. Why should we clap for that?
Such bull sh**
So glad I'm out.
