by Check_Your_Premises 14 Replies latest jw friends
We all know that cults use loaded language as well as redefine words and phrases to have their own special meaning.
Not to long ago I was talking to a very devout JW sister (totally brainwashed just doesn't describe it) about my daughter. She kept talking about the "young ones". She must have said the phrase twenty times over the course of the conversation.
And every one knows that if you repeat the Kingdom Approved lingo that means you REALLY love Jehovah.
Hi CYP,
How are you? Does your wife ever try to use the language of the wt? I recently asked mine a question and his response was the canned response from the knowledge book, I was pissed. He couldn't understand I already knew the canned answer, I wanted his answer. Sadly, he didn't even understand what I was saying. I said it was his answer I wanted not the wt's. Of course he thought it was his answer, unity and all that. I don't allow him to use the loaded language, I will call him on it. Some may say why? If you don't allow them to use jwese, they truly have to search for the real reasons for questions and use 'normal' language. It makes it quite difficult, at least for him.
I understand why they use that phrase. Partly it is to find a way to incorporate every person under 20 in one phrase. I can remember a CO coming through and asking everyone under 20 to stand up. They he said "these are the young ones in your midst." The WTS bases this on the account in the OT where every Israelite 20 and over was held accountable for the decision not to go into the promised land the first time.
(Numbers 14:29) . . .In this wilderness YOUR carcasses will fall, yes, all YOUR registered ones of all YOUR number from twenty years old upward, YOU who have murmured against me.
It is a phrase they take from their translation of the Bible as well.
Another word they use even more is "youth(s)."
It is an awkward phrase not used in in the NT or current speech. It is their attempt to find a word that encompasses both male and female children under 20.
While "youths" are considered not accountable in the Bible account above, another poster illustrated how "young ones" are considered capable of deciding to get baptized but not to make their own decision whether to attend meetings or not.
Blondie (still trying to edit the "pure language" out of her speech)
This is hilarious! My sister and I (both unbaptized) have studied just long enough to notice this. We've noticed that they love using the word "appreciate": e.g., "This helps us to appreciate . . ." Also, "the nations" is another one I've heard many of them use to describe the world. This just cracks me up.
JW/WTS Buzzwords
This is hilarious! My sister and I (both unbaptized) have studied just long enough to notice this. We've noticed that they love using the word "appreciate": e.g., "This helps us to appreciate . . ." Also, "the nations" is another one I've heard many of them use to describe the world. This just cracks me up.
Hear is a phrase I would use to help you, Lynnmelo: RUN HARD, RUN FAST, RUN, RUN, RUN
Phrases:
Worldly
Theocratic
Independent thinking
Running ahead
Haughty
These are phrases that are loaded; they mean something quite different in the "truth" than outside it.
ie, independent thinking is not a negative outside the WT, in fact it is quite highly appreciated.
NOT in the congregation. It implies that you will not take "direction" another loaded term for BE OBEDIENT OR ELSE.
When I found a room mate and got my first apartment, my Grandmother advised me, "Well, make sure you keep everything theocratic!" I didn't even bother asking, just what the heck does that mean?
"Do you see the two yutes in the courtroom?"
"The two yutes, your honor?"
"People with impure motives" always got on my nerves -- that's the phrase they use at conventions when they talk about not leaving your purse in your seat. For God's sake, just call 'em "pursesnatchers" or "thieves" and be done with it!
Nina
