@Shelton I don't know about that... Lol

They are the ones with ridiculously low number of people that will actually make the so called "paradise cut." Right? 110,000 or something like that.

@BufftonBeotch yes. 144,000

@BufftonBeotch Actually they believe that 144,000 will go to heaven but billions of people will receive paradise on earth. It's ridiculous either way but that is what they believe. I was a member till I was almost 40 and had this BS ingrained into my psyche for too many years.

@Shelton Hell, go for it if they come back.

@gearl Were you "disfellowshipped" or is that something not done anymore.

That is a very cult thing to completely cut a person off from even speaking to them if they decide to leave a religion.

I knew someone that went through this, but probably in the 70's.

He was still a teen though, and by the rules his own father was not supposed to talk to him except for basic household crap.

@BufftonBeotch I was disfellowshipped about 1982, a long time ago but I know that it is a thing still done. It is a very cult thing and I do now consider them definitely a cult. JWs predicted that Armageddon was coming about 1975 so a whole lot of folks left after that. When I left I lost my entire family so it wasn't pleasant. Later I started a new life which was much better than anything I ever had before.

@gearl i think many Amish and other related sects are abandoning the "shunning."
It is something cruel to all involved.