best JW Cult words & phrases

by still_in74 69 Replies latest jw friends

  • Alpaca
    Alpaca

    vacation pioneer

    believe me it was no vacation and there was nothing pioneering about it.

    they eventually renamed it auxilliary pioneering

  • Scarred for life
    Scarred for life

    Dramas!!!

    Oh my God. The horror, the horror.

  • Scarred for life
    Scarred for life

    I remember vacation pioneering. And people actually did it too! I could never understand it.

  • Alpaca
    Alpaca

    "mature" Dubs always referred to the big, summertime district events as "conventions" and the other smaller circuit events as "assemblies" or "special assembly days"

    "immature" Dubs didn't make any distinction and would frequently refer to the district event as an "assembly"

    listening to the lingo was one of the way's you could ferret out the "spiritual babes" from the those who "understood the deep things of God"

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    how about all of those damn servants:

    magazine servant

    territory servant

    literature servant

    sound servant

    circuit servant

    district servant

    zone servant

    special servant

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    After there was a study (can't remember if it was a WT or one of the books in the CBS) about Satan's demons dividing the earth up into territories some of kids used to talk about the:

    circuit serpent

    district serpent

    etc.....you get the idea

  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once

    "Same Comment" W.Once

  • BU2B
    BU2B

    I liked how the show Breaking Amish, shows the Amish repeatedly using the word worldly. All non Amish are caalled English, or Worldly. I watched the show with my wife and I could tell it was weird for her to see "worldly" people using the term worldly. I told her that they actually are less a part of the world than we are.

  • Frazzled UBM
    Frazzled UBM

    My biggest bugbear is the bastardisation of the word 'Truth' - something they share with the Soviets who called their propaganda rag 'Pravda' meaning Truth

    The other one is 'brother' and 'sister' to denote a special relationship of mutual indoctrination - why not use 'Comrade'?

  • Blackbird Fly
    Blackbird Fly

    "home-but-hiding"

    telephone territory

    "quick-build"

    judicial committee

    'going over the questions'

    dif'd

  • AlphaMan
    AlphaMan

    LISTEN, OBEY & BE BLESSED.

  • TTATTelder
    TTATTelder

    "Jehovah allows things to happen for a reason"

    ....or even the dreaded:

    "Well Jehovah allows things like this for a test" .........so comforting.

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