In the Philadelphia area, in talks it was used almost always: "so, friends, let's always...".
Also, "the friends" was used way more than "brothers and sisters".
Jehovah’s Witnesses and “the Friends”
by minimus 32 Replies latest jw friends
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Londo111
The Quakers are also known as "the Friends".
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minimus
Are the Witnesses friendly to you? They are the Friends,right?
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Diogenesister
Never was a thing in the UK. Wierd.
Also they used to say brothers AND sisters more often from the podium in the UK, now I Im sure they just say brothers more and more.
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HereIgo
yes, very common phrase in my area. It was used so often it became watered down and fake sounding. Well, who am I kidding, they are fake "friends" to begin with! 100% conditional love.
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Xanthippe
Never heard of it until I came on this forum, we don't use it in the UK.
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BluesBrother
" Friends" is an American thing .... over here it is always 'the brothers' . To address another Witness formally one says ' brother or sister' (surname)
It would be ignorant to say Mr xxxxxxx . There was once a woman progressing to baptism but having problems and thois elder did not like her. He called her 'Mrs xxxxx' and she was really offended.
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punkofnice
As others have said, I never heard of it here in the UK.
I wonder if the UK jobos use it now though?
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jookbeard
never used the term in the UK
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Amelia Ashton
The friends was not an expression we used in UK or Spain. I only heard it used when listening to GB member's talks.