What is the Craziest Thing You Are Aware Of Someone Being Disfellowshipped For? (page 3)

hoser

Vidiot

They really know how to kick people when they are at their lowest

blondie

I wonder if this was what they used? But then I wonder if they would still do it the same now? Remember it is 3 elders from one BOE, and wonder if they put the facts in the report to headquarters?

WT 2006 9/15 p. 9 The decision of the elders investigating the case should be based on the Scriptures and the clearly established facts—an admission by the driver and/or the testimony of two or three reliable eyewitnesses. (Deuteronomy 17: 16; Matthew 18:15,16) If bloodguilt is established, a judicial committee should be formed. If the committee determines that the bloodguilty person is repentant, he will receive appropriate reproof from the Scriptures and will be restricted as regards privileges in the congregation

NotFormer

Vidiot, they never cease to amaze me, when they manage to plumb depths that I previously believed to be unplumbable. 🧐

Nathan Natas

Like SeaBreeeze, I know of someone who was disfellowshipped for smoking. She was the mother of my best friend at the time. Her husband had researched The Watchtower and he did not like them. Her name was Ella. She was unable to give up smoking, and she was disfellowshipped. I was a kid at that time and thought, "Too bad, but them's the rules."

Because I was an ignorant thoughtless child, like the "Elders" who invented and enforced this terrible treatment of fellow humans.

I don't smoke; never have, never wanted to try it, so I don't encourage anyone to smoke.

Anything.

I also think it is immoral to destroy a person because they smoke. Ella died disfellowshipped. Her own son didn't speak to her after her disfellowshipping.

Nathan Natas

Hiddleswife said, "...Her elders took the words of these Dubs (who had TITLES)..."

Did they have big tit-les? I'll bet they did.

Please pardon me, my eyes are acting up...

hoser

An elderly sister in our Kingdom Hall was in long term care. She had a couple of strokes and dementia.

She was disfellowshipped for attending a birthday party of one of the other residents, even though she couldn’t really speak up for herself and was in a wheelchair. She probably didn’t even understand what was going on.

Vidiot

Wow…

…that was, arguably, more fucked-up than mine.

peacefulpete

To my shame, I was party to disfellowshipping a poor woman, whose nonJW wife divorced her to facilitate getting immigration papers to the US. At the time it was easier for single able-bodied men to apply for VISAs than families. They were in reality still married and a loving family of 4. This was a third world country, and she had no means of support other than her husband's subsistence wages. She remained living at home and engaging in normal activities, I was sick about it even then. She was balling when the body demanded she not return home to her husband. I often think about my role and can only hope she found a new life elsewhere.

LongHairGal

HOSER:

It amazes me how heartbreaking and ridiculous some of these disfellowshipping stories are.

Somebody half-dead who doesn’t even know what’s going on gets disfellowshipped.🙄 Wow, I guess that showed them!.. I’m sure the congregation was then ‘clean’ from their harmful influence, right?🙄

I'm sure all these disfellowshippings and pushing people out the door over faulty teachings was in the days when the congregations were filled with people. Egotistical elders imagined people would be begging to come back crawling on their bellies. Those days are gone.

Now the religion can Dream On because they cannot get people to stay and are trying to entice people long gone to come back into their toxic world.. I am a long-time ‘Fader’ and you couldn’t pay me to go back to the JWs.

What is the Craziest Thing You Are Aware Of Someone Being Disfellowshipped For?

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