Posts by Marjorie

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is there a "disfellowshipped list"?

by ruined in

i stopped going to kh when i was in my early 20's.

i'm now in my mid 40's.

i've done many of the things for which a person should be df'd over the many years since but i don't know whether i am df'd.

Marjorie

Wouldn't that make a good "Questions From Readers" subject?

Perhaps. It depends on if you give any credence to the ''sacred pronoucements'' from the WTS.

And while you consider that, consider this: I have personally seen brothers and sisters going through the rigamarole of reinstatement, only to find the shunning continuing after they were reinstated!! For years!! Never have I witnessed such un-Christian, ungodly behavior before. Perhaps it was just the congregation that I was in -- I don't know. If anyone else has a similar story to tell, please share.

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is there a "disfellowshipped list"?

by ruined in

i stopped going to kh when i was in my early 20's.

i'm now in my mid 40's.

i've done many of the things for which a person should be df'd over the many years since but i don't know whether i am df'd.

Marjorie

What hoops?

Going to the meetings regularly for several months while being shunned, before your application for reinstatement can even be considered. Having your every action scrutinized even more closely than before your disassociation. And if and when you are reinstated, you will have to re-earn your ''privileges'', such as answering at meetings, giving talks, etc. But I think that that this would apply only to those persons who sent in a DA letter. JW Facts has an excellent article about disfellowshipping and reinstatement.

http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/disfellowship.htm.

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is there a "disfellowshipped list"?

by ruined in

i stopped going to kh when i was in my early 20's.

i'm now in my mid 40's.

i've done many of the things for which a person should be df'd over the many years since but i don't know whether i am df'd.

Marjorie

Makes me wonder what would happen if one walked into meeting and said they da'd some time ago but decided to start associating again.

I believe that the elders would make that person jump through the same hoops that they make a DF'ed person go through, since the Society sees both actions as the same evil.

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29-Nov-07 12:15 Shawn10538 said "Go home Mormon"

by SusanHere in

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29-nov-07 12:15 shawn10538 "go home mormon" .

i found this lovely message in my inbox.

you have problems, shawn.

Marjorie

notice the "everyone welcome" in the top left hand corner

That's why I consider this a non-issue, SH.

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29-Nov-07 12:15 Shawn10538 said "Go home Mormon"

by SusanHere in

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29-nov-07 12:15 shawn10538 "go home mormon" .

i found this lovely message in my inbox.

you have problems, shawn.

Marjorie

I personally think that one mans religion is another man's belly laugh

avishai, can I keep this one? I promise to credit you...

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NOW what do we called Disfellowshiped ones?? Since we don't use ....

by oompa in

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...that term anymore, so are not disfellowshipped any more, but just no longer a witness, what is that?

i wonder what word it will become to describe these ones and the action taken?

we don't have one yet, but most dubs i know are still saying "he's disfellowshiped" oooo scary.

Marjorie

I will personally call them by name if I ever see one I know.

That's what I do too.

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Getting Married Today!

by alamb in

courthouse.

3:30. thought i'd tell my "family" here.

thanks for being the friends you are.

Marjorie

Congratulations!!!

I hope that you'll have as many years of happiness that

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GOOD MORNING FROM ENGLAND

by Dansk in

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anyone up?.

.

ian.

Marjorie

I am! I took a nap earlier (I know, what was I thinking), and now I can't sleep!

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Near Riot in New Orleans

by sammielee24 in

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police attack protesters with mace, tazers to keep them out of city hall: .

council to vote on demolishing 5000 affordable homes .

thursday december 19, 2007 .

Marjorie

I have the RIGHT to be an asshole. It's given to me by the constitution and the bill of rights!

No argument there.

But once again, you are generalizing. I agree that no one has the right to live on the public dole for their entire life, but try to remember that these goverment programs were put into place to help working families in times of exigency. It doesn't have to be included in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. All westernized countries have similar programs. It's considered being humane. Most (not all) of the people that reside in public housing are the working poor and disabled. I don't mind my taxes going to those programs. I'm not so small-minded as to begrudge a person a helping hand when they need it. Through no fault of my own, I or my family could be in that position one day. Because of unexpected job loss, illness, the death of the family breadwinner(s), most of us could be in that position.

I've got the RIGHT to be a racist, or sexist, or belligerent, or arrogant or whatever I want to be!

Once again, no argument. None at all.

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dad hates letter telling him I will no longer use NWT-RASH....and...

by oompa in

as you know dad there are many, many things in the hebrew scriptures that have always troubled me about gods dealings with man.

these type of things make it difficult for me to not only draw close to him, but make me question if i could really worship him.

over and over i have been taught he is always just, he is love....and yet he had laws that allowed young girls to be raped by a man and then she actually had the privilege of marrying her rapist...if she was not engaged.

Marjorie

I definitely would not depend on the New World Translation. That version has so many deliberate errors put there solely to back up the doctrines. If you do use that translation, I would definitely use it solely to verify that the Tower is teaching a bunch of lies.

Good advice for everyone.

I personally like The Ryrie Study Bible NAS Hardback with Red Letter Indexing. You can get it at Amazon.com. And there's the Blue Letter Bible website: http://blueletterbible.org/ which has several versions of the Bible for convenient viewing (But I'm sure that you already knew this...) The New King James Version is the version that I read when I'm on their site. If I may suggest, you can use BLB to tide you over until you get another Bible, then use it to help supplement any research, like I do.