Help me out with a list of loaded language JW buzz words

by Check_Your_Premises 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Check_Your_Premises

  I am preparing a summary of methods to use to build rapport with the JW cult member. The summary will attempt to follow the methods used in the Strategic Interactive Approach, which is described in Steven Hassan's book, Releasing the Bonds.

  One of the things a person who has a loved one in a cult has to do is understand the loaded language. As we all know the JW have just such lexicon of buzzwords. I have included what I have so far, but please feel free to add your own. If catharsis demands it, feel free to include your sarcastic ones as well. But keep in mind this is an attempt at a serious discussion, and it is hoped it will help non-jws to free their loved ones. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

  • Torture Stake - Cross
  • Kingdom Hall - Church. Don?t call a church a KH, and don?t call the KH a church.
  • Talk - Sermon
  • Ransom Sacrifice - Crucifixion
  • "in the truth" - A Jehovah?s Witness member
  • "this system of things" or "the last days" - the here and now
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  blondie

  I would direct you to the Theocratese Dictionary but it seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Can anyone check and see if it is just me.

  http://www.ashelf.com/ashelf/wordlists/e/eec/www/

  http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~lnewton/glossary/

  Glossary of American English Hacker Theocratese, first published in November, 1993, and available on this Web site in HTML since 1995, is no longer linked to from this location.
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  googlemagoogle

  - "obviously": we don't have any arguments to back it up, but it supports our doctrines
  - "apostates": people who left "the truth" and are now "spreading lies", don't listen to them, if they are on tele, switch channels.
  - "true christians": JWs
  - "the world": everything else (and it's all bad!)
  - "waiting on jehovah": swallow your doubts and wait til brooklyn releases a watchtower with an explaination. if they don't, continue waiting.
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  blondie

  http://www.jwfiles.com/jw-words.htm
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  FairMind

  Pure language

  Voice of Strangers
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  summertime

  I think this is what Blondie was trying to get to thru those links.
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  summertime

  Guess it helps if I put the link huh?

  http://jehovah.to/glos/index.html
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  blondie

  Summertime, it was at those websites just last month.

  Something made him pull him from those other sites.

  This must be an 'approved site.'

  http://jehovah.to/glos/index.html
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  VM44

  Hi blondie,

  It is still at the first site. Just moved to a different folder. Here is the link:

  http://ashelf.com/wordlists/e/eec/www/index.html

  --VM44
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  trinity83

  - "waiting on jehovah": swallow your doubts and wait til brooklyn releases a watchtower with an explaination. if they don't, continue waiting.

  Huge LOL

  so true