by freedom96 13 Replies latest jw friends
I was talking to a work associate the other day. I referred to someone as not being DA'd or DF'd. He paused, chuckled, and said he had never heard that term before.
He has been an elder for twenty years.
I related the story to my wife, and she suggested that maybe those terms are "apostate" and not circulated around the hall. For the life of me, I just don't remember.
Have I identified myself as an apostate??
Which term DA'd or DF'd? or both?
It doesn't mean you're apostate, just that you created your own shorter version of a longer word.
Did he say it was an apostate term?
If not, don't worry.
Blondie
the df'd individualUsed by an elder in an e-mail
No the term means you use the internet ooohhh boooogah booogah!
The terms DAd (disassociated) and DFd (disfellowshipped) are well the longer words are JW words and few people on the outside would understand them. The abbrviations are netspeak so us lazy folks and non-typists don't have to spell out the whole thing
As Blondie stated they don't necessarily mean the person is an apostate althouth either the DAd person or the DFd person could also be an apostate or even be DFd or DAd because of apostasy. But <sigh> we all know the list of things one can be reproved for is getting longer all the time
As a Witness, I used the abbreviation "DF'ed" and found nothing odd about it.
Funny, though, I used to think that only ex-JWs used the term "dubs", but I was surprised to find out from Meia when we were dating (and still Witnesses) that a lot of the local witnesses here in Boise use that term.
No, those terms are not apostate terms. We learned them while in the org. I remember since I was a kid, we use to say, "hey so-and-so got DF'd." I dunno where that elder has been all these years, but he is a joke, isn't he?
Corvin
My friends and I used to use those terms all the time when I was witness, they are not apostate terms.
I have heard the terms used by witnesses - though the more usual one is to call disfellowshipping THE BIG D
I imagine the witnesses don't even say the whole word that often, I mean after all when someone is disfellowshipped or disassociated you don't really have anything to do with them. It seems to me on average exJWs would talk about such things a lot more than JWs, JWs are too busy living their JW life to give it much thought.
Be careful now, you know you're getting geeky when you start using net abbreviations in daily speech.. I saw a t-shirt once that says LOL on it, now that is just a little sad..
Definitely used Deffed as a dub though I don't recall ever using DA(d). When in dubbieland with the dubs, under the umbrella of the gb and wts, I remember that anyone who DAd was way worse than a DF'd person cuz they were rejecting the troof. They were purposely leaving the KH? My word, that is just so independent and they were obviously the spawn of Satan, commonly known as the 'other' big guy in the sky, though not too high in the sky cuz his ride got stuck on planet erf.
boa....not df'd or da'd (yet lol)
I wonder if I could get df'd and while they make the announcement at the hall, I run up to the podium, grab the mike and tell 'em all, YOU CAN"T DF me cuz I QUIT! I'm DAing MYSELF! Then in my best evil debbil voice do a legendary MUHAHAHAHA..............
