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What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!
by megaflower 221 Replies latest jw friends
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crmsicl
"I missed you" (translation: Why weren't you at the meeting?)
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smiddy
At conventions ," we would like all you brothers & sisters to be seated 15 minutes before the program starts so you can enjoy the kingdom melodies ."
smiddy
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exwhyzee
Stand if your able, and sing song number.....
Boy....we certainly do need the new system don't we ?
Todays Wt Study was surely spiritually edifying.
Be sure to look up the scriptures for your own spiritual edification.
Certainly Brothers, this would behoove us to.....
In view of the foregoing we can see that....
Oh how this gladdens Jehovah's heart
...and a study was started.
Time is rapidly slipping by so we'll dispense with the reading of each paragraph. (this was always good to hear)
The next subheading in our article is called.....
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prologos
leprechaun: clapping after a public talk, any talk why?: their clapping, applauding the fact that the speaker is finally leaving platform after all the nutty catch phrases are phased out for now.
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DarioKehl
Here is a list of single words and phrases that always made me cringe. No one else uses these words in everyday language:
utmost
yearn
use discernment
warm (our/your) heart
meek
yes... (i sat through many hundreds of talks where the speaker began 70% of his sentences with "yes, blah blah bla...)
thorough
attentiveness
wholesome
upbuilding
wholehearted
warmly
lovingly
strive
undeserved kindness
faithful obedience
evidently
many people... (every suggested presentation contained this phrase)
throng(s)
trueness
encouraging
subjection
recommended
exemplary
TRUE christians
able-bodied
christendom
HARmeggedon
praise jah
men/mankind
followers
bounteous
child rearing
discipline
loving counsel
admonish
please stand if you're able
adroitly, hillock, pall, braying (and other occasional "vocab words" thrown into a random article or book study intended to solidify the myth the R&F have about how intelligent and special the "slave class" is for using words we had to look up because we were too stoopid to know their meaning; and also to give the die-hards the opportunity to boast their faithfulness and loyalty by showing how diligently they prepared by saying, "I had to look up this word in the dictionary and it's defined as...")
privilage(s)
falls to (as in, "the hall cleaning privilage this week falls to the so-and-so book study...)
hospitable
god's word
supplicate
your ministry
torture stake
meditate
sacred poles
dungy
prayerfully
decorum
blood guilty
wickedness
! (the over-used exclamation point felt like a cult leader was screaming from the pages)
befitting
new order
reasonableNESS (just say "reason." it's the same goddam thing--why so many suffixes?)
we are but grasshoppers (usually said by old-timers during a closing prayer, making the kids think, "WTF?")
society
ORAL review (...more like anal review)
bethelite
your mate (say spouse! jesus christ, we're not apes or australians!)
food
welcome to the ranks (a phrase used by many COs at "piosneer-only" meetings)
do we not... (just say "don't we!" any time "do we not..." came from the platform, that was a cue to follow with obligatory applause to show conformity)
we (this inclusive collective pronoun is always used and works quite handily in groupthink cult speech.)
true christians would/wouldn't... (again, a clever manipulative tool any time rules were laid down in the WT. rather than saying, "this is forbidden" or "don't do this," the inclusive, collective noun is given preceded by the qualifier "true." implying, if you don't agree with the statement, you are not a true christian. this subtle approach is their way of telling you what you think.)
And here's a list of words I always HATED in their songs:
forlorn
succor
"bees that were molested" followed by "beat them off" a few lines later
master trod
kiss the son
haaaaaa.....PENISSSS (when "happiness" was at the end of the stanza, my kid sister and I always used to sing the last half of the word nice and loud lol)
sumptious
vigor and vim
make the truth your own (the WORST song to have at the end of a Thursday night meeting when it's late, you're tired, you have school or work the next day or maybe have to stay late because your dad has an elders meeting and you have to muddle through this 4-stanza, 2-page earworm that plays in your head over and over again the rest of the night).
REAL PEOPLE DO NOT SPEAK IN THIS MANNER.
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cedars
In Manchester, where I come from, they sometimes say: "It's a new system job" - meaning, "that's one of the many things only the new system can fix".
Cedars
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Splash
"Need Greater" - Someone who serves where... Well, you get it.
Splash.
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darth frosty
WAIT ON JEHOVAH?!?
Really?!?
Makes you wanna
The person saying it.
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punkofnice
'thank the Faithful Slave for...(insert arse licking reason)...'
