by gringojj 38 Replies latest jw friends
AK Jeff - thanks for the qoute but it was quoting back from 1913 so maybe the US are stuck in the old generation and its btoh generational and geopgraphical. If I read that in the yearbook referring to something that happened in the last ten years I would have read it as some friends of JWs - not actual JWs and that would be ridiculous because JWs have no friends.
( crumpet no longer of the JW-No-Mates class)
You know whats funny legolas,im his wife and i dont even know what gringojj"s name means.I guess i never thought to ask him.LOL
As to the phrase "friends", mostly JWs in their 80's and 90's now use it and those that have quite a few of that group in their congregation. Younger congregations don't know the phrase.
So if you are unfamiliar with it it is probably due to the fact that you were young as a JW, there were few older JWs in your congregation and perhaps had little to say from the platform.
I just heard a older JW say "friends" this month.
But not all JW cultures are the same.
Do they realize how the expression "The Friends" sounds so much like a cult!
Do they realize how the expression "The Friends" sounds so much like a cult!
"The Society", "The New System"
the first univ. i attended was a quaker school. guess what it was called? Friends University
You wouldn't have happened to go to school in Kansas, would ya?
And how about refering to everyone as "brother johnson" or "sister smith"?
I often couldn't remember the person's first name! What kind of brother or sister is that? Can't remember their first name?
I had never heard the term "the friends" used to describe the dubs before visiting this board, and I was in the dubs for 20 years in Canada. Maybe its an American thing?
In Toronto, it was just "the brothers" or "the sisters", at least where I was located.
I heard some of the JWs refer to others as the friends™. It always made me a bit nauseous. It wasn't a term I was comfortable using, simply because most of the JWs I knew were assholes. I didn't like them. Why would I call them "friends"?
What really used to piss me off was when speaking to someone I might make a reference to my sisters. Without exception, no one ever knew what I was talking about unless I referred to my sisters as "my fleshly sisters™". Are the JWs really so stupid that they don't know what a sibling is? Or is this yet another method of undermining the family?
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I am going to start refering to all my friends as "brother and sister".
LOL! I like that. Perhaps I'll start doing this as well when my JW mother is present. Too funny!
