No no No No NO! Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT COOL NOW!

by TerryWalstrom 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  TerryWalstrom

  Jehovah's Witnesses have always been uncool.
  You know. I know it. They obviously know it.

  In the last few years, a more modern, hip, and COOL image for their brand has been foisted on the public at large.

  JW.ORG

  (Sidebar: a group of us Witnesses, when I was a teen, were sternly lectured by a Circuit Servant about how WRONG it was to refer to ourselves as JW's.
  Want to know why? He said, "Reducing Jehovah's name to mere letters of an alphabet is blasphemy! That's what superstitious Jews did to His name. We proudly say the FULL NAME.")

  Yeah--well--NOT ANY MORE apparently.

  JW's. . .

  Wow! So-o-o-o-o cool!!

  But, not really. At least not to us ex-members.

  I prefer to call them J-Dubs or Jehovah's Witless. This is simply a modest, conservative, non-threatening act of defiance on my part.

  I'm quite uncooperative on the matter, you see smile emoticon
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  Gentledawn

  No no No No NO! Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT COOL NOW!

  Oh, yeah?

  "Published on July 10, 2014
  
  RMC - Conyers Assembly Hall Tour for the 2014 International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Atlanta. Our Russian Brothers and Sisters were having a great time dancing but it was not in the frame of the stationary camera."

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQRU9KEIW4
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  Ding

  I often wondered why the organization was okay with the abbreviation "JW," given its constant emphasis on the importance of using the name "Jehovah."
  
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  tim3l0rd

  Maybe it was ASL that started the "JW" trend. The internal sign for Jehovah's Witnesses has been JW for as long as I can remember.
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  oppostate

  When Rutherford first announced the name change there had been banners with big capital JW letters all over the convention grounds, Bible Students had little clue what this stood for and were asking each other.

  Then during the program Rutherford divulged their name was changing to Jehovah's Witnesses, so now everyone knew what JW stood for.
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  punkofnice

  He said, "Reducing Jehovah's name to mere letters of an alphabet is blasphemy! That's what superstitious Jews did to His name. We proudly say the FULL NAME."

  That Circus Serpant sounds like a real powertripping nobody. I must admit, I never heard of this over here from across the pond.

  I guess we had other lunatic stuff going off.......like the 'anointed(TM)' railway workers that used to stand up with their fob watches if a brother was going 'overtime(TM)' on his item.

  These younguns haven't lived, Terry.
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  JWdaughter

  I did not hear it was blasphemy, but we did get the message that it was disrespectful and we NEVER referred to each other or ourselves as JWs. I am not sure that they do even now, really. Do they? I know the logo/website, but do they say "I'm a JW"? .
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  bradford

  Most younger generation dubbs put "JW" in their Instagram profiles and refer to themselves as JWs like they are a blood or crip or something. At least they did five months before I was blocked for my disease. In and around bethel its normal and has been long before the launch of their sweet new website.
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  Vidiot

  bradford - "Most younger generation dubs put "JW" in their Instagram profiles and refer to themselves as JWs like they are a blood or crip or something."

  x"Yo, dawg, I'm tight with the J-man. Peace."

  
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  DarioKehl

  I remember being called out by an old mouthy pretentious pigfuck twat in my service group that "we aren't supposed to use 'JW,' it's disrespectful." Many of the more old-timer judgemental cunty people felt that way until Big Brother changed history to say that it's "always BEEN acceptable--how dare you say otherwise?"