JW says shunning a personal decision

by blondie 26 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  Organization member Tressa Ballard, 62, left the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1990 and has since embraced evangelical Christianity. The Colorado Springs resident sometimes speaks at the meetings about how four of her five children who remained in the church refuse to talk to her since she left the faith. "People can leave, but they will be shunned by family and friends," Ballard said.
  
  But Martin Ringle, spokesman for the local Jehovah's Witnesses churches, said shunning is not part of the faith. "Sounds like a personal decision her kids have made," Ringle said.

  http://www.gazette.com/articles/witnesses-55954-jesus-darlington.html
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  El Kabong

  This Ringle guy must have been misquoted, right.

  Either that or a very brazen liar.
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  Hopscotch

  If Ringle wasn't misquoted then what an outright lie. I hope there are lots of letters to the editor sent in to refute that comment. The hide of him - it is a fundamental part of JWs policy and beliefs. Especially after that paragraph in yesterdays WT.

  Hopscotch
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  dinah

  Personal decision my ASS. If her children didn't "decide" to shun her, the elders would "decide" to disfellowship them. Ringle is a liar. All of us understand how those "Personal Decisions" made by Witnesses work.
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  TheOldHippie

  Shunning by family members is a personal choice or decision. One can be called to meetings and "encouraged" to do so to a certain level, but one can never be df'ed for not shunning family members. Elders and servants can be removed as such for not doing it, but they can not be "removed as JWs".
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  wobble

  So Martin Ringle was being "Economical with the truth" as politicians are renowned for doing, I call it LYING.

  love

  Wobble
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  hamsterbait

  Any decision is "personal" because the human being making the decision is a person.

  To take or not to take blood. That is YOUR decision. What others do about it is another issue.

  Eve decided to eat the fruit, it was her decision even if God held a gun to her head and said he'd shoot her.

  The blood WT was a joke. Two tiers, one marked "The Individual Christian to decide" and the other (presumably) was decided for them by somebody else.

  All decisions are our own to make. What is disgusting about the Witchtower religion is that they impose such cruel punishment if you dont choose what they tell you to.

  HB
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  dinah

  What is disgusting about the Witchtower religion is that they impose such cruel punishment if you dont choose what they tell you to.

  Exactly, hamster! It's more like the individual "decides" to follow what the Slave says to avoid discipline. A Witness may decide to receive a blood transfusion to save their life, but we all know what the consequences would be.
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  hamsterbait

  The OldHippie -

  People are and have been DF for associating with their children or parents who are DF or DAd.

  You are either misinformed or a LIAR.

  I personally know people who were DF because they still visited or let visit their DF family members.

  The Witchtower babble and Trash society are tightening the screws on this issue, because they know that FEAR is the best way of controlling their prisoners. The cage door is open, and like the old communist countries, everybody wants to get out as things get ever more miserable.

  They have to LIE on this because new members have not yet had their natural affection killed.

  HB
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  Will Power

  Sure they have a choice

  Shun or be shunned

  live or die

  that is WT control enforced by each individual JW.