Disease of the month anyone?

by dmouse 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  dmouse

  jwsons posted about a pro -JW site called 'Jehovah's Witnesses United' (sounds like a new football team to me).
  on the thread - 'Anyone know about this JW tool?'.

  I was having a look and came across a JW glossary. Yes! These folks have made up a serious glossary of language used by JWs!
  I've seen word lists done by 'apostates' but this stuff is even better. http://jehovah.to/glossary/index.html

  Here is an excerpt, Bold mine:

  disease of the month
  An illness featured in a recent magazine. The publications, particularly Awake!, regularly present detailed articles on health problems. In recent times we have had series on AIDS, allergies, Alzheimer's disease, anemia, attention deficit disorder, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, colitis, eating disorders, Epstein-Barr syndrome, lead poisoning, Lou Gehrig's disease, narcolepsy, obsessive compulsive behavior, post-traumatic stress disorder, temporomandibular joint syndrome, and Tourette's syndrome, to name just a few. Whenever the magazines feature some new malady, a wave of incidents of it follows, especially among sisters who seem to be prone to acquiring harmonic illnesses. This could be viewed as emanating from the foresight of the holy spirit directing the writing to anticipate our needs. It might also reflect a few cases of hypochondriacs falling victim to the power of suggestion. Some people shop around and pay large sums of money until they find a medical practitioner who will declare them to have an ailment that fits their needs and budgets.
  <<``Will your wife be joining us in service this morning?'' ``Naw, she's laid up with the disease of the month.''>>
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  ChuckD

  Here's a great story on that subject:

  http://www.theonion.com/onion3616/internet_illness.html

  Can't type too much more - my fibromyalgia is acting up today.
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  butalbee

  dmouse--I've been looking for a link to this for a long time!!!!! Thanxs!!!!!!!
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  LittleToe

  Oh, I'm coming over feeling all unwell...
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  BluesBrother

  From the same Glossary:-

  "apostate, apostasy
  One who has rebelled against and abandoned the {true worship} of Jehovah. Sometimes apostates actively oppose true worship and attempt to influence others to do the same. <<Some apostates were trying to hand out leaflets at our {convention} last week.>> An act or particular case of apostate behavior is called apostasy. (2Th 2:3)
  NOTE: Apostates are persons who were once among us, walking in the Truth, not merely outsiders who oppose it. They usually know our beliefs, terminology, and organizational ways quite well.

  Apostates tend to seek out unwary Witnesses and engage them in dialogue. Often they were once fine people with an extensive {Truth} background. But they tend to be proud of their independent intellectual accomplishments. <<Based on several years of deep research, careful study, and profound meditation I have concluded blah blah blah ...>> They will claim support for their ideas from others who are supposedly pillars in the Truth. <<I know numerous people, including elders, who agree with me that blah blah blah ...>> They will flatter the listener while speaking condescendingly of Witnesses in general. <<I realize that most Witnesses wouldn't understand; but I realize that you are by no means average, but are truly open-minded.>> The speaker condescendingly suggests that most Witnesses are simple, unpretentious, and unsophisticated, but is implying that for the most part we are a bunch of dopes.

  Willing association with true apostates, whether in person, by reading their literature, or engaging in electronic debate across the Internet, is itself apostate behavior, and therefore potentially a {disfellowshipping offense}, in addition to being extremely dangerous and outright stupid. It should be avoided entirely. "
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  SixofNine

  I think that may be an offshoot of a "theocratic glossary" I came across when I first got on the net, about 7 years ago or more.

  It amazes me that anyone intelligent enough to see the humor in the "disease of the month", can also be so stupid and mean as to then compose the paragraph on "apostates".

  To be a witness is to be so incredibly arrogant. Funny thing is, witnesses are ALL arrogant, whether they consider themselves intelligent or not; even the lowly ones are arrogant. It's the nature of the religion.
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  singsongboi

  hmmmmm! and regarding the single most imprtant subject for most people...

  nothing under sex, homosexual or oral sex...

  but under self abuse......
  self-abuse
  Although the term at face value can mean almost any kind of self-inflicted negative behavior, e.g., stabbing oneself with pins and needles, it is usually used as a euphemism for masturbation. Because masturbation is universally considered one of the most acutely embarrassing subjects of conversation, many substitute terms have arisen to describe it, most of them tasteless, and many of them obscene.
  The term self-abuse was used consistently in the Society's literature for many years. This word has a strongly judgmental flavor to it. It refers not to the act itself, but to the speaker's righteous indignation toward it. In today's immoral society there are many who do not believe that masturbation is an act of abuse, and many even view it as beneficial.[171] Witnesses inclined to discuss the subject at all with worldly people, who call it self-abuse, stand the danger of sending the discussion off on a tangent, because it is no longer considered {politically correct}. Therefore, when speaking of masturbation, it is better to use the plain and unambiguous English word that has sufficed for centuries. It is significant that self-abuse has not appeared in the Society's publications since 1985, though there have been several articles that deal with masturbation.

  [171] In 1994 the Surgeon General of the USA was fired for publicly recommending that masturbation be taught in schools as a part of sex education classes.

  jws are so 'insightful'!!!!!!!
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  SixofNine

  171] In 1994 the Surgeon General of the USA was fired for publicly recommending that masturbation be taught in schools as a part of sex education classes.

  Maybe someone w/ better memory than me can clear this up. I don't think that is true, is it? I remember a bit of an uproar, but I don't think they were fired for that?
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  ChuckD

  Jocelyn Elders was put on the spot in a question-and-answer session, in which she was asked if sex education programs should include discussions on masturbation. She did not go out and say "I think we should add masturbation to the program" but did answer the question with something along the lines of "yes, a proper program should include everything, including that". What else COULD she say? Once the press got hold of this, they presented it as "Surgeon General wants classes in masturbation taught..." and so on.

  The president did ask her to step down after this, even though it was hardly justification for her removal. She SHOULD have been fired for having the most annoying speaking voice of all time, if for nothing else.