Are Jehovah's Witnesses disfellowshipped for questioning the teachings of the society?

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• Yeah Danny, you're obviously a nice guy too, honest and full of...integrity?

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  by Anonymous on January 6th, 2006

• To even vocally question the watchtower will result in complete shunning,ORWELLIAN Watchtower world

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  by JehovahWitness on January 6th, 2006

• The Watchtower leadership has no tolerance for dissenters but wants tolerance of their authoritarian practices

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  by Mike Roger on January 6th, 2006

• I was disfellowshipped on trumped up charges for being a Whistle-blower to WT fraud

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  by Danny Haszard on January 6th, 2006

• This answer is totally wrong. JWs have been DF'd for reading the Bible on their own.

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  by just2mellow on February 2nd, 2006

• Danny you are a disgruntled person who is upset his parents left him no money, get a job.

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  by Anonymous on February 28th, 2006

• Try asking questions or reading the Bible independently of the literature. They will brand you an apostate if you are caught. Just ask Raymond Franz.

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  by Anonymous on November 25th, 2006

• Those comments are a load of rubbish, from some-one who is obviously a fault finder, of course you can ask questions.

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  by seahorse on December 13th, 2008

• I wouldn't be a Witness if I couldn't have asked questions...I asked many questions before, and I continue to ask many questions...Questions are a necessary part of learning...And who do you know that knows it all?

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  by vew573 on January 20th, 2010

• Very true vew573. I don't think there would be very many JW's if we did not get satisfying answers when we were first studying. Try to get a satisfying answer about why babies die from a paid preacher.

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  by Texasescimo on January 20th, 2010

• If you would like to know how the Organization was set up theres
  a book written. 30 Years a Watchtower Slave.
  There is also another good book written by a Governing Body member
  In Search of Christian Freedom By Raymond Franz 60 year Member. His
  uncle Fred was the person who put the NWT together with four helpers. So if you are really free to do as you please read these.
  Did you know when Armageddion did not happen as predcited
  1,000,000 let the Organization. Smart Folks

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  by Doc on February 17th, 2011

• I have a friend who was at headquarters with Raymond Franz. Franz thought that the society should charge more for the Watchtower and Awake than the 10 cents they asked for back then, to cover the cost of printing and shipping. When no one else would agree with him, he became disgruntled and left the society. He later wrote this book you refer to. And, he didn't give it away free....He found a way to make money...Being greedy was also the down fall of Judas Iscariot.
  
  if anyone really wants to know about Jehovah's Witnesses, they should ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
  
  I know if I had lived in the days of Jesus and his apostles, I would have gone to them to learn about their teachings, etc. I would'nt have gone to Judas Iscariot...because he was a traitor who turned on his former brothers, just like Franz.

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  by vew573 on February 17th, 2011

• Excellent comment view.

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  by seahorse on February 17th, 2011

• Hey Doc, does Raymond Franz say how much he was paid as a Governing Body member? How much does the book that you and him are promoting cost?
  
  A few scriptures that he would have done well to keep in mind:
  (1 Timothy 6:4-6) he is puffed up [with pride], not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words. From these things spring envy, strife, abusive speeches, wicked suspicions, 5 violent disputes about trifles on the part of men corrupted in mind and despoiled of the truth, thinking that godly devotion is a means of gain. 6 To be sure, it is a means of great gain, [this] godly devotion along with self-sufficiency.
  
  (1 Corinthians 10:10-11) Neither be murmurers, just as some of them murmured, only to perish by the destroyer. 11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.
  
  
  
  (Matthew 24:48-49) “But if ever that evil slave should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying,’ 49 and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards,
  (2 Peter 3:3-4) For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”

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  by Texasescimo on June 4th, 2011

• In fact questions are encouraged ,"Doc " surely you have noticed the segments in our Watchtower magazines ''Questions from Readers ', where a wide variety of subjects are discussed by all .

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  by seahorse on June 4th, 2011