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REPOST?FROM JT- YOU CAN CONTACT HIM IF YOU LIKE
let me share with you where this entire concept of "Dissassocation" came from and then you decide-
one of my mentors at bethel explained to a group of us young bucks how this came about his name is RP Johnson, he is known is the Service Dept as a "Troubleshooter"
for the society, he will fly out to an area and remove entire bodies of elders and appoint men on THE SPOT AS ELDERS
he explained to us that it DA is the brainchild of the Legal Dept to enable the wt to be free of legal liablity
in many countries if a young man went to the army he would be hauled into a committee and dfed, well in some countries the gov views this judical action as forcing a citizen to renounce serving his country
so the society needed a way to get folks like that "He!! Out" without having to be libel
so the legal dept along with the service came up with this wonderful concept called DA - where one by letter or Actions- ( THAT HAVE BEEN DEFINED BY THE SOCIETY) would constitute grounds for classifying one as being DAed
so what they are now able to do is avoid having the elders take any ACTION such as calling you, setting up a committee meeting, meeting with the person again and then finally making a decision,
instead they are able to get you A$$ without having to lay a finger on you
in fact the society WANTS YOU TO SEND THAT LETTER-- o yea baby- they want you to send that letter
in fact they are going to continue to move wt violations over from DFing Status to DAed status in due to protecting them
in fact they have recently moved TRANSFUSION from DFing to DA,. the legal ramification is to great to have a sick person A BEING THREATEN WITH a Judical committee if they take the blood
it is viewed as coreicion- so instead now they simply find out you took blood and say
"She has DA herself by her action" case closed and the elders never had to touch the case, the society's service dept was never called about how to handle this case-
it's like big time drug dealers don';t haul drugs around in their car and they are always sitting at some Huge Party on thier yachts when Leroy is getting shot in the streets of /Detriot
yep they keep their hands clean- same with wt now
in fact from what i understand more and more issues will be moved over from DF to DA
so while for some it give them closure and that is good, for others they are not fully prepared for the backlash
each person must decide for themselves
When folks come to the net and mention they are concerned about how THEIR FAMILY WILL TAKE IT
to me that is a flag that DA might be something to consider latter
but if one comes here and says-- my folks, cousin, bro sister can kiss my "Black A$$"
then DA will have no affect on you
i tell folks to always make sure before you cut all ties and that is what DA often does due to the wt programming in its; memebers to view you as wicked-
the wt has programmed jw to react like an ATM Machine on the 3rd WRONG TRY with your PIN number it SHUTS DOWN
and that is how JW are programmed to act- if that will not bother you THEN GO FOR IT, BUT if at this point it will then hold up
personally since i know what the basis is for the wt asking for you to DA yourself i wouldn't waste the paper and stamp, but hey that just me-
we faded and it was the best way to go, for after a period of time you don't really give a Sh!t what they think
but more important in my view is you give yourself time to BUILD ANEW CLIENTE OF FRIENDS
and the reason why is that most former jw ONLY HAD JW friends and when one DA themselves and they have not built up a cliente of new friends a DEEP DEPRESSION SITS IN FAST
my wife and i used to have 20-30 former jw, dfed , da and just plain ole tired and wore out jw- smile
here at the house to help them make the transition to THE REAL WORLD and it ain';t easy
all im trying to say is WHY MAKE THE TRANSITION HARDER THAN IT HAS TO BE
So that is why i often recommend fading due to the fact that most persons are simply NOT PREPARED FOR THE BACKLASH
keep this in mind :
if you decide to fade and you get to that point where it matters not- you can always DA down the roadf
but once you DA, if you are not ready, YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK to Pre-DA days
so it often times revolves around the relationship with family and friends
by fading it made it possible to help others since according to THIER RULES THEY COULD STILL TALK TO YOU-
SO WE used to used it to Pose THINKING QUESTION if we had DA we would not even have been able to talk to them, if it matters not to you THEN GO FOR IT
but we were able to help my inlaws, mother, bro and sister to see
they knew i was very serious about this religion, elder, bethelite, and then all of a sudden i gave up ALL TITLE
so they wanted to know why AND WE started dropping seeds of questions
and in a couple of days my inlaws will be here in DC for some good times
just my 2
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