Apostates apparently have their own terminology

by Vanderhoven7 20 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Vanderhoven7
    Vanderhoven7

    A dyed in the wool Witness actually posted this as if non-Witnesses invented unheard of terminology,

    "Those who devote their life to criticize Jehovah’s Witnesses use a lot of very specific expressions and ideas common only to them:

    • “kangaroo court”,
    • “8 old men in New York”,
    • “they claim to be prophets”,
    • publications “heavily redacted”,
    • beliefs that “don’t stand up to scrutiny”,
    • “brainwashed”,
    • “love bombing”;
    • they avoid “independent thinking”,
    • “overlapping generation”,
    • “mind control”,
    • “spoon-fed”;
    • “Watchtower”,
    • “cognitive dissonance”;
    • “they’re constantly changing their beliefs”,
    • “indoctrination”,
    • “conditional love”;
    • “programmed”;
    • “old light”,
    • “a hamster wheel”,
    • “they are parrots”,
    • “theocratic warfare”,
    • “Kool aid”,
    • “they protect pedophiles”,
    • “they shun you if you leave”,
    • “they are a cult”,
    • “they hate ex Witnesses”,
    • “they don’t believe that Jesus is their mediator”,
    • “they shun you even if you don’t leave but you disagree with a minor point”,
    • “they believe Jesus is Michael the archangel”,
    • “they don’t help the poor”,
    • “they are very judgmental”,
    • “they like cherry picking verses”,
    • “if you tell them you are an apostate, they run away”,
    • etc.
  • TonusOH
    TonusOH

    How about this one: If the shoe fits, wear it.

  • Vanderhoven7
    Vanderhoven7

    Good answer!

  • truth_b_known
    truth_b_known
    "Those who devote their life to criticize Jehovah’s Witnesses use a lot of very specific expressions and ideas common only to them:
    “Watchtower”
    “overlapping generation”

    Let that sink in for a minute...

    “old light”

    The Watchtower coined the term "New Light". If there is New Light there has to be Old Light. Otherwise it would all just be Light.

  • stan livedeath
    stan livedeath

    they left out Dubs.

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Every in group has their own vocabulary. It changes over time too.

    When I first arrived on this board a common term among xjws was “Borganization” or just “The Borg”. Back then Star Trek: Voyager was current and “Borg” was a shorthand way of saying that Watchtower was a frightful organisation that “assimilated” members who lost autonomy and individuality within the “collective”. It was quite a striking metaphor. Looking back, however, it’s not just that Star Trek’s fearsome technology based villain “The Borg” has receded in popular imagination. I think the inexorable march of a superlative enemy, crushing all in its path, no longer seems to fit Watchtower that appears increasingly malleable, subject to the capricious nature of events beyond its control, and somewhat vulnerable, in a way that it was not around the turn of the millennium.

  • Ding
    Ding

    Sounds like we read WT literature far more than they do...

  • careful
    careful

    Excuse me, dyed in the wool Witness, whoever you are, but “overlapping generation” is right out of David Splane's mouth, and "theocratic strategy" is from Freddie Franz back in the 1950s publications. I remember how "avoid independent thinking" was bantered about in the WTS pubs plenty after the 1980 "apostasy" and after R. Franz's book came out.

    They continue to live in their Shangri-la.

  • carla
    carla

    Cult survivors of many flavors can use many of those "unheard of" terminology. Kangaroo court is hardly unheard of and can apply in many situations besides the dubs.

  • Vanderhoven7
    Vanderhoven7

    Right SBF

    Could have used the Borg, and what about the Washtowel and Field Circus.

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