have you been disfellowhipped from the "spiritual paradise" for your conscientiously held personal beliefs?
and were you and betrayed to the elders by family members who reported your personal conversations with them to the copngregation.
this thread is a memorial to you - and to the stupidity and paranoia of the GB, in encouraging this practise.
the stupidity of this doctrine and practise can be illustrated by the following news report (which i read in the sydney morning herald (08-04-02) but which came originally from the english daily telegraph)
I have summarised the following from the article....
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Werner Fischer was a leading east german dissident, fighting for the end of the east german worker's non-paradise, who planned and led weekly demonstrations that helped to bring the fall of the berlin wall in 1989.
he has just finished reading 67 files from the stasi (east german secret police) kept on him. in the files, he learnt the name of someone close to him who became his betrayer.
Who?
the woman's name was erna fischer.
his mother!
she valued her relationship with the east german state and the east german communist party more than her relationship with her son, and was willing to betray her son.
they no longer have a relationship.
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it is easy to change names of individuals and groups, and come up with similar stories in the modern day WT paradise. with family members betrayed for believing something they were not supposed to believe in the WT paradise.
everyone is likely to feel critical of the (former) east german incident --- why can't jws see the stupidity of their policy of reporting variant belief.