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  JW Expressions We Hate

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  i was browsing through stuff on jw.org recently and ran across some expressions that really grate on my nerves: loyal love, loving-care, and loving-kindness, as in: "please exercise loving-kindness toward your servant.

  " who talks like that?

  they must be relics of the fred franz era.

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  During the WT Study "Have I missed any hands?" Are there any new hands?

  Blood guilty™

  Soon™

  Very soon™

  Rapidly approaching™

  Sooner than we think™

  Last days of the last days™

  I guess I better not buy any green bananas.

  My favorite one of all times is from 52 years ago. "The end is so close™ that you won't finish high school." I would like to tell those two elders that I finished high school, my children finished high school and several of my great grandchildren finished high school. The only problem is the two elders died of old age. I am sure if they were alive they would say, "Yes, but just think how much closer we are now."
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  JW Expressions We Hate

  by Socrateswannabe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was browsing through stuff on jw.org recently and ran across some expressions that really grate on my nerves: loyal love, loving-care, and loving-kindness, as in: "please exercise loving-kindness toward your servant.

  " who talks like that?

  they must be relics of the fred franz era.

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  Receive Jehovah's blessing.

  Shepherding visit.

  Get my hours in.

  The end of this system of things.

  (After someone dies who wasn't a JW) Well, at least now he will be resurrected.

  Our spiritual paradise.

  (after a meeting) Tell your wife we missed her or is your wife sick?

  Let's go in service together.

  Jehovah will bless your efforts.
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  "If I wasn't born a JW, I would never have become one."

  by OneEyedJoe in

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  i've seen it mentioned by a few on the forum that at some point there was a realization that had they not been born a jw, they never would've converted no matter how many times the jws tried to study with them.

  this was my experience too, and i'm wondering how universal it is for those that were born-in but eventually left.

  i think i started having this thought (more specifically that if i were not born a jw, i would surely have become an atheist by now) in my late teens.

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  All of the above shows why the Borg is pushing the baptisms of children.
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  My First CLAM Meeting

  by The Searcher in

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  i carried out my monthly "cover" visit to the k.h.

  tonight.

  as previously discussed on this forum, the clam meeting is just a rehashed, recycled, reshuffled, & rebranded ministry school and service meeting.

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  It sounds like the Witchtower Babel and Trick Society just wanted to eliminate the word "school" from the meeting for some legal issues and at the same time make everyone feel excited about scrambling the parts around for a new, refreshing, up building, can't be missed, so exciting, spiritually refreshing meeting.
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  New here

  by MarkofCane in

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  hello and thanks to everyone for participating on this forum it has really been of much value, for those of you that post here know that your words are not lost you never know who is reading your expressions, lives are being changed and nonsense challenged.

  i’m not much of a writer so excuse my untrained writing style and grammar but i want to share my story to help anyone who is visiting here to see that we are real people, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have come here for answers, there is no agenda, just searching for truth.

  i hope my story will help others as so many here have helped me..

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  You are a very good writer.
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  My Bethel Experience Part 16

  by new boy in

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  we are nearing the end of the journey.......so this next two chapters will be called "odds and ends" or things i didn't put in the right chapters..........because i thought of them after those chapters were written..... .

  bethel joke.

  three guys are sitting around, each drinking a large glass of beer.........a publisher, a pioneer and a bethelite.......just then, a fly lands in all three of their glasses of beer........the publisher....pushes the glass away and says....."i can't drink this now"...........the pioneer looks over, and picks the fly out of the beer and keeps on drinking............the bethelite.........picks up the fly by its wings and holds its head over the glass and says "spit it out......spit it out!

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  I have really enjoyed your stories. I wish that Witlesses who live in their dream world would read your posts. Everyone thinks that going to Beth-hell is such a privilege and they are treated like royalty. I know a brother who left Beth-hell 5 years ago and he still throws his title of being a Beth-hellite around.
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  My Bethel Experience Part 8

  by new boy in

  1. jw
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  well it is 4:00 a.m. in the morning and i can't sleep, so might has well write..

  everything at bethel is seniority........"how long have you been here?

  you really wanted to be the man with no name a.k.a.thx-1138.

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  Thanks. I look forward to reading your posts.
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  My Bethel Experience Part 6 with new info.

  by new boy in

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  i 'm sorry all of this is not in order.

  i'm writing as all this comes back to me.. .

  my first room assignment was room 33 in the 129 building.

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  Thanks.
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  January jw-tv broadcast with Lett

  by bohm in

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  lett is back with a vengance!.

  * the last money-begging effort increased donations by 15% for two months; a letter by a 13 year old who donated is read out loud.

  * since last may "so many good things have happened".

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  I wish someone would tape Brother Lett's eyebrows so they wouldn't move up and down like window shades. The faces that he makes freak me out.
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  My Bethel Experience Part 3

  by new boy in

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  don't get me wrong...........there was no one more self righteous, than me at 19. i moved to kansas at 18 to pioneer and even printed up cards that said............ .

  "have sword, will travel"---------contact casarona salina kansas------ aaa which of course meant available after armageddon..

  oh, i was full of myself!

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  I enjoy your story.