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.

Nathan Natas

I can imagine the conclave of dunderheads that disfellowshipped the poor demented Sister that Hoser told us about.

[Scene - a mundane generic Kingdom Hall Library. Brothers Frick, Frack, and Smith have just convened a Judicial Committee.]

Brother Bingo Smith: "...in Jesus' name, Amen. Well, Brothers, today we have a serious case of unrepentant wrongdoing. It seems that Sister Anne Elke was seen participating in..."

Brother Melchizidek Frick, interrupting: "Hey, Zek, I've gotta say that Barbie was looking unrepentantly hot tonight. Your wife is so fuckn' per..."

Brother Zechariah Frack: "I told you before Mel, don't talk to me about your friendship with my wife. Can you give me just the slightest bit of brotherly respect?"

Brother Melchizidek Frick: "...fect. Are you sure you're my "brother," Zek? I mean, the accident tore 'em off, didn't it? I could call you "sister Zek" and be closer..."

Brother Bingo Smith: "Shut up, both of you. We've got shit to do here. Sin has crept into our congregation! We must sanitize, Sanitize, SANITIZE this part of Jehovah's Glorious Kingdom. And Zek will get his balls back in The New World, inshallah."

Brother Melchizidek Frick: "...to the truth. OK, Smitty, what's up with nutty Sister Elke now? and I know you used to be a Muslim, but you gotta stop using those Arab words."

Brother Bingo Smith: "You know Sister Lois Biddybodi works at that Adut Family Home? One of the worldly patients there had a Birthday Party, and Lois saw Anne Elke eating a piece of cake. If this becomes public knowledge it might dishonor Jehovah's Most Holy name. I visited Sister Elke at the Home, and she kept telling me she didn't remember eating any cake, and that she knows it would be a very bad thing to do so."

Brother Zechariah Frack: "Unrepentant! Worse yet, it could lead to rampant birthday-cake-eating right here in our Sunny Village Congregation of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses and from here it could spread to the circuit. If that happened, we might get deleted as Elders."

Brother Bingo Smith: "Speak for yourself, Zek. I've got, uh, "insurance" with the District Servant. I'm bulletproof. But we have to nip this cake-eating nonsense in the bud. Nip it in the bud, I say! Nip it now!"

Brother Zechariah Frack: "Wait a minute... everyone knows that Sister Elke is nuts. Remember at the Memorial last year she guzzled the wine and sang "Goin' Up Yonder"? It is amazing that she still has such a good voice, but she can't tell you the date of her own birthday."

Brother Bingo Smith: "We know that birthdays are SATANIC. Nip it in the bud! Now!"

Brother Melchizidek Frick: "OK already - but YOU make the announcement, Smitty. I don't want to announce that my aunt has been disfellowshipped. Hey, are we still on for bourbon and cigars tomorrow night at our usual place? One of the Hustler girls is supposed to be dancing there tomorrow."

[Fade out as a cloud of supernatural anti-matter descends on the Kingdom Hall.]

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