HELP ME COMPILE A LIST OF DISCARDED WORDS AND PHRASES from the WTS (page 4)

donny

And don't forget to check out Terry's latest book "Monorails of Mars."

hamsterbait

"extemporaneous witnessing"

"incidental" witnessing "

"The Brothers were further HAPPIFIED when"

"Mother KNows Best"

"Loathesome venereal diseases"

"New Truth"

"stay alive until seventy five"

"homosexuals have not been 'SCARED STRAIGHT' by the threat of AIDS"

millie210

How about all the weird words in some of the songs?

Remember the song that had the phrase mendacious men" in it?

zeb

"Therefore we conclude".

"It would seem.."

"The conclusion is"

and over the years lots of made up words.

I was always galled by the "conclusion" ones where a weak argument was made and a proof concluded by the use of fibrous truth and misquote (they were sued by some academics for this) to form a conclusion in some wt study.

JW GoneBad

Depending on what sort of response a JW gets at the door:

"They'll listen if their heart is in the right condition!"...or... "If they don't listen it's because their heart isn't in the right condition!"

And Jehovah's Wtinesses say they aren't judgemental!!!

clarity

Not appropriate for a christian...changed to

.....

"That's disggguuussting!"

-Steven Lett

Mum

For a time in the '70's, vacation pioneering became "temporary" pioneering before it became "auxiliary" pioneering.

I've been told that I'm "demonized."

Persons of interest were called "goodwill" or "people of goodwill."

Other JW phrases are "theocratic arrangement" and "willful sin."

Terry

Thanks Donny--the check is in the mail!

BizzyBee

Way, way back (in my dad's time) COs were called "company servants."

Earnest prayers sometimes led to embarrassing syntax and perplexing visuals - "forgive us our falling shorts."

Phizzy

A lot of the old expressions used when I was young in the 1950's were not unique to JW's, but they came from the King James Bible, so with the introduction of the NWT they gradually stopped being used.

A number though hung on in the public prayers of JW Bros, many of them simply copying what others had said before them ,as they do now of course.

One that used to give me an awful mental image was when they prayed for those " on beds of sickness".

HELP ME COMPILE A LIST OF DISCARDED WORDS AND PHRASES from the WTS

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