Shunning those not Disfellowshipped

[BARNABY THE DOG.]

Thank you for these words....I think I could read this 10 times!

Don‘t let anyone say you are ‘just in it for the money’, coinlady! (Sorry, I can’t help my poor humour!)

 

[Ms_ladyblue]

I’m sure they would think of some reason to reject such flagrant sarcasm. My sister is still shunning me, though she says she is not, but she has not contacted me for years except to check up if I’m still alive. Clearly then, an email once every 20 years or so is acceptable non-shunning shunning because she has not actually seen me or spoken to me, just sent a spam email. Perhaps I’ll write to head office and sneak on her for sending me an email and get her into a “back-room” counselling session with a bunch of “concerned” elders about socialising with diseased non-masked disassociated apostate family members. You never know, her husband may have to step down from his eldership for having an unruly wife speaking with apostate family. The shame of it!

You know, I didn’t know whether to laugh or take that as the reality of how it probably is! 😳
Nothing surprises or shocks me anymore.

 

[kenmuldoon55]

If you look at this issue in isolation, this is how it sounds to any reasonable person.
Patient to psychiatrist: “I do not speak to my son because i love him very much.”
Psychiatrist: “How will this help mend your relationship with your son”.
Patient: “It will show him that I am right and he is wrong and that I have thrown him out of my house, and refuse to reason with him and won’t even answer the phone if he or his family need help because I love him so much and want him to come home.”
Psychiatrist glances at patients head, but there is no tinfoil hat there. “So you threw him out of your home because you want him to come home? Is he of the same religion as you?”
“Yes”.
”Well surely you can speak to him when he attends?”
”No. I have to ignore him and turn my back on him because I love him.”
Psychiatrist furtively looks at a bottle of whisky under his desk and thinks perhaps that this was the wrong week to give up drinking. “So no matter what, you are not speaking to your son and will not extend him any help whatsoever?”
”Correct. You would do the same I’m sure. It’s for their own good.”
”Who told you that?”
”I was advised by a chap who lives in New York State in a grand marble lined mansion for free. He said it was the loving thing to do. He said that God channels advice through him and his other mates but not directly of course, as that would be presumptuous to assume that, but nonetheless, I should believe what he says otherwise I will end up like my son and no one will speak with me - but if that were to be the case and I was thrown out for speaking with and associating with my son, I could have him home and speak with him as much as I want, but my wife and my other children will throw me and my son out of the house and not speak with me.
”Do you know this guy?”
”Nope. Never met him but he would not lie to me. He said so in an article in one of his magazines he prints so it must be true. Is there something wrong with me doctor?”
”Yes, you seem to have a severe case of Gaslightus.”
”Any cure doctor?”
”Yes, indeed there is. Get a group of like minded people and read and discuss the bible together…”
”But the man in the mansion said that we are not to do that and that they will do it for us, in case we get the wrong understanding…”

Would make a great Monty Python skit Burt!