3rd Gen said-
Adamah, while I agree that these puns may not qualify as valid argument, for me, they served an important purpose. As I was learning TTATT these funny words described what I was now noticing. Piosneers made me LOL as well as helped to marginalize their importance in my life. Who cares what an El duh thinks? ASSembly aptly describe the event. These words help new ones distance themselves from the cult and break away from its language.
Yeah, this subject pops up from time to time, and the situation boils down to realizing that the venting and self-perceived cleverness often comes at the cost of merely succeeding in triggering the hair-trigger cult defenses of those who are still in, by living up the apostate characture. So if we're trying to liberate those still in (like all of us who have family members in the JWs), it's unlikely to help: in fact, it plays right into the hands of the GB who say that apostates are childish mockers who are angry, hate-filled, etc. It's hard to imagine how that is helpful?
But on the other hand, all approaches have a certain value to someone, and certainly whatever emotional impact that derision and irreverance has on others, it arguably might help some to learn TTATT and question the authority of the JWs, helping to break the stranglehold.
However, it would be great to see people using the power of punnage not remaining trapped in the mire of their own emotions as if needing to act out against the authority figures they claimed to leave behind decades ago, but to bring up their game. But everyone does what they can do, I guess...
Adam
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