My, my, my. How far we've come in just the last ten years.
Just ten short years ago, the term JW "apostate" still carried a stigma of held-over shame to most ex-JWs and they rarely called themselves by that term. I wore that badge proudly, but I had already been out of the WTS for over 20 years by then. Slowly, but steadily the term went from shame to neutral to a badge of honor! Today we have "apostofests" and "aposto marches" and everything else apostate. "Apostate" has morphed into a term of celebration. Dang! How that must gall the WT leaders!
Ten years ago Jehovah's Witnesses were mostly called "JWs" by apostates. I was one of the first, or possibly the first one to regularly and sneeringly call them "dubs" and "dubettes" and "little dubbies". JWs have no problem calling ex-members or members of other religions the vilest of names, but how it must gall them to have themselves referred to with such derisive and condescending names as "dubs!" A dose of their own medicine.
Ten years ago being DFd for say, "immorality" or "apostasy" still had a stigma attached to it on discussion boards even for people who had no desire to go back. Today people brag about it!
And the derision of the WTS continues. I think it was Paul Blizzard who used the term "Witchpower Babble and Trick Society" many years ago. I admired his chutzpah at the time! Our own "WTWizard" poster has a slew of epithets for the WTS. Why don't you post them on this thread, Wizard?
I'll list a few that I've used and heard.
Bible-God(tm)
The Governing Buggery (double entendre!)
Litter-achure
Babylon the Grape
The Genital Times
Grudge Rutherford
Da Judge
Kingdumb Hell
Field Circus
The Pioneer Shuffle
Circus Overseer
Split Pea Soup (what deeeeeminz make you hurl)
Chuckie Russell
Nathan Homo Knorr
Come on, folks! Let's show 'em what we've got. Feel free to add your own. The raunchier the better. Vile is good! After all, we ARE demonized apostates, aren't we?
Farkel
...OUTLAW