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   From: barbhoy31@adelphia.net   
      
   "Nori Otaku"  wrote in message   
   news:pan.2003.08.28.05.50.03.603096@noriotaku.usenet...   
   > Barb Hoy wrote on Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:17:47 +0000:   
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   > > "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.   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > Um, if you disassociated yourself, you are automagically   
   > "disfellowshipped".  At least that's what the materials I have say.   
   >   
      
   that is incorrect.  Otherwise why was I disfellowshipped 2 years after I   
   disassociated?   
      
      
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