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   From: barbhoy31@adelphia.net   
      
   "Nori Otaku"  wrote in message   
   news:pan.2003.08.20.10.57.31.546697.23736@noriotaku.usenet...   
   > .  = * | * =  .. wrote on Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:21:29 -0500:   
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   > Do you do any research?  There was a *faction* of JW's that believed the   
   > world would end in 1975.  Even some of the highly-placed believed it to   
   > be so.  Many left after nothing happened.  However, no one was   
   > disfellowshipped for not believing in the 1975 date.   
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   I was counseled about it because I had admitted to my book study that I   
   didn't believe it.  I disassociated because of it;  and it was the   
   alternative I was given.  Later they DF'd me out the blue.....no notice of   
   the "hearing" either.  They were cleaning house of young people then....any   
   infraction large or small and you were out.  I was totally cut out, no one   
   made any ministerial calls on me nothing, nada until they came by to tell me   
   I was disfellowshipped.   
      
   Barb   
      
      
   > If you want to harp on the JW redefinition of truths, there are much   
   > better candidates than the highly-publicized 1975 incident.   
   >   
   > Besides, what the JW's define as "The Truth" is the core dogmatic beliefs   
   > of their system.  Those core beliefs settled into place long before 1975.   
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