Came to my door this morning. Seems they want to clean up the books or somesuch. They said that they had some serious "accusations" against me, and would be having an elders meeting (...."uh..uh...it's a judicial meeting" ) this wednesday evening. I gave them a slight but understanding grin. They hinted at me giving them a statement of dissasociation a couple of times in the conversation. They made the requisit posturing towards spirituality; that they could "help" me (what are their qualifications again?) if my faith has been shattered, hinted that things have changed for the better in the congregation (well, the one who knows me did, the "new" guy, whose only been in the congregation 2 years, while I've been gone for over 4, was pretty much "let's just get this done" in his tone).
The timing of this sucks; my sister is getting married the first weekend in Sept. The wedding is at my other sister's house, immediate family only, so this will likely not be a huge problem, but who knows? It could turn into one. One of the nicest things about my fade is that my sister (and nieces) who have a nice circle of friends, has been able to walk the edge and have family/social events that include me, and still have her witness friends come too. Guess who will likely lose in this scenario in the future, if I am df'd or even da'd?
I'm suspicious of their claim to have serious accusations against me, as I tend to think they are just trying to clear the *Six* problem up; but who knows? I've run across witnesses alone and in groups about 3 times recently, and while the meetings were all very friendly reunions, I think also that it might have gotten people talking about me, and thereby spurred the feral elders into action?
Well, any strategy ideas? I'm curious about the what and who of the charges, but not curious enough to go into the meeting and debate any charges against me. Nor do I feel like "reasoning from the scriptures" with these clowns, as that is not my forte, and they don't reason anyway, especially not in groups.
It looks to me like one of two things will happen:
a) They will disfellowship me (most likely)
b) They will dissasociate me (less likely unless I do it for them)
I'm thinking the best course to minimize the impact on my family, is to go ahead and dissasociate. It may screw my chances of helping any of my old acquaintances, but I think the family will for the most part just *yawn* and say "we knew that". Anyway, I'd send out a note to all of them letting them know it was under duress, and that I would have preferred to just fade away.
I just had a thought, what if I were to give them a letter stating that I voted in the democratic primary, and intend to excercise my right to vote in all upcoming elections. I wonder how they would feel they needed to handle that legally? Voting is a bit of a tricky area for them legally.
Or maybe Kim Norris would like to get some adversarial practice in Wed. evening? Kim? Kim? heellpppp meeeee ....I'm drowningggg... lol.