i am going to be at a trial in ritzville, washington.
the town is about an hour southwest from spokane, wa.
i will be there on august 14th, which will be on a tuesday.
."The molester was reinstated in six months two day before his daughter's wedding and walked her down the isle at the kingdom Hall, I do not recall any brothers and sister protesting this."
When my JW daughter married her JW fiance, she had to have the wedding at a private home because she was told if she wed at the KH her Df'd father and mother could not come. So the dear child choose to have the wedding elsewhere. Go figure.
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regarding dfing policy:.
is it true that those wishing reinstatement sit up the back?.
in an average congregation, how many dfed would be sitting up the back?.
I was df'd in 89, and like Chuck D said, rarely are there 2 in a Hall at any given time. If there are 30,000 people df'd each year, and 91,000 congregations, that is, I believe, 1 person df'd for evey 3 congregations. (Of course, my Kingdom Hall has 4 congregations...)If only half of those are seeking resinstaement, then that is one df'd person in every 6 congrgations.
But as everyone on this board knows, these are only numbers and they don't tell the whole sory.
I go to the Hall late, the back rows are always full, and I sit wherever there is an empty seat. Mind you, my meetings are always 1/2 to 2/3 empty, but the back rows are always full. I also go stand by the door during the concluding song, and slip out immediately after the concluding prayer. Been doing this all these years.
I am looking very much forward to attending meetings during this time of turmoil in the organization. Gotta see me some o' dat damage control in person..
I've talked to many a df'd person, but always in private, far away from prying eyes...and ears. I always felt that the Witnesses pay rent/mortgage for their Kingdom Hall, let them have it their way, it's their 'house'and 'castle'.
And we can have our 'way' here!
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what kinda light?.
to all congregations united in jehovah's service, .
the organization has been under a concentrated criticism lately for our position on new light.
Big Jim you go, go, go!
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i am really amazed at the number of responses i received from my post.
you don't even know how much your kind words have meant to me and my husband (he did read all replies, and said "wow what a bunch of nice people") i do want to know what is the pr thing some of you mentioned?
where are those articles on families ties aren't severed?
your welcome. And thanks for the opportunity to repond again!
This board is the most amazing little 'family' I have ever come across. Welcome to it and stick around please.
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...and viewers, to the right, just off your screen, are the pile of stones with which to Kill this years apostates;
to the left, just off your screen, is the roaring bonfire for the burning of all of this year's unapproved literature.
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i've been checking out this forum for a while now, and decided it was time to become a member.
anxious to begin adding my 2-cents worth.
good day to all.
hi, welcome Scotland to our little 'family'. We get a little passionate here now and again, but that's how families are, have been and always will be. Feel free to give as good as you get!
Looking forward to your 2 cents' worth...
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i remember a time when the society exercised a significant.
degree of discipline over elders.
brothers were commonly.
Perhaps that is another, maybe even truer reason there was no df'ing/shunning before the fifties. The quality of the membership was just too high prior to those days.
And I agree with you on another thing; I'd have to ask why anyone would join a religion like this today, what kind of person would be comfortable in an organization like this? And someone who knows it's history?
Sheesh.
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i remember a time when the society exercised a significant.
degree of discipline over elders.
brothers were commonly.
Aways back my JW son-in-law was interviewed with the goal of being recomended eventually for the position of elder. I beleive they outright asked him to be an MS, but you know they question everyone on 'loyalty' etc.
He was 19 at the time.
He respectfully refused, saying he was thinking of moving, and sick, and wanted to work full time and every excuse he could think of. The congregation hardly recognized his existance for some time after that.
The bottom line, and what ties the 'out of control' elders and my son-in-law's experiences together is the obvious fact that the WT is loosing its brightest and best in near hemorrhage numbers. The org is merely protecting at all costs a vanishing and endangered species. ('qualified' elders).
What the org will end up having is quantity insteady of quality.
My son-in-law told me (through my non-JW son) that he never wanted to be in front of a judicial commitee, and so he will never sit on one. A very lovely boy.
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i posted this in another thread.... i wanted to give it its due concideration..... i wish to share a small tid-bit of something that came to "light" last week.
it shows how underhanded and sneeky the little trolls are, and they even know they are.. an issue came up recently in a watchtower over a certain number of years that was mentioned in a w.t.
the actual years in the bible was different.
Oh yeah, about your post Zev...
Thanks for the warning. Much appreciated.
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i posted this in another thread.... i wanted to give it its due concideration..... i wish to share a small tid-bit of something that came to "light" last week.
it shows how underhanded and sneeky the little trolls are, and they even know they are.. an issue came up recently in a watchtower over a certain number of years that was mentioned in a w.t.
the actual years in the bible was different.
I've often thought she looked like Yancy Butler, a lovely American (I think) actress. I especially liked her in a movie called 'The Ex'.
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