Words and expressions a JW can't say

by JH 56 Replies latest jw friends

  • JH
    JH

    Name few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a JW.

    When someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !

    If you want to surprise a JW, you can't say Boo !!!

    http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3

  • aSphereisnotaCircle
    aSphereisnotaCircle

    Good luck!

  • DesertRat
    DesertRat

    Merry Christmas

    Happy New Year

    Happy Birthday

    Happy Halloween

    Happy Easter

    Happy Anything!!!

    DR

  • Lo-ru-hamah
    Lo-ru-hamah

    Cheers!

  • aSphereisnotaCircle
    aSphereisnotaCircle

    Damn, meetings sure are boring........

  • ZazuWitts
    ZazuWitts

    "Human Being"

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Their country's anthem/pledge

    I don't enjoy field service

    Anything critical of the organization, Jehovah.

    Guess what the judicial committee said?

    Announcing the convention dates before a January service meeting.

  • bikerchic
    bikerchic
    "Human Being"

    Hey (((Zazu)))!!! Great to see you posting!

    Oh yeah they can't even be human beings they're to busy being human doings.....do more, do more!

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Did you see Jack Ass 2? (any R movie)

    What do you think of (Soap opera)?

    Isn't Rap music great?

    Who should I vote for?

    What branch of the military will I join?

  • blondie
    blondie

    Can't say a toast

    The WTS now uses "human being" in reference to humans as well as God, a change of "policy" as the QFR below shows.

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    w968/1p.5ABetterHopefortheSoul***

    . Psalm 146:4 tells what happens when the spirit, or life-force, leaves a human being: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish."

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    w5812/15p.764QuestionsFromReaders***

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    Ihavebeentoldthatitisimpropertospeakofahumanbeing.Yetbeingisdefinedinthiswayinthedictionary.Whatistheproperviewpointonthismatter?—J.P.,UnitedStates.

    According to modern dictionaries every human creature is a human being because he has being or exists. Dr. Joseph B. Rotherham in the foreword of TheEmphasisedBible discusses the meaning of God’s name, Jehovah. Because this name means, according to Dr. Rotherham, that Jehovah God manifests himself as always alive in one capacity or the other, Rotherham, too, argues that Jehovah is the only being and that all other intelligent existing things are merely creatures. For some years now the Watch Tower publications have ascribed the quality of being only to Jehovah God, in view of the basic significance of his name. So it has reserved the word "being" as a sort of title of Jehovah out of respect for the significance of his name and has referred to humans as mere creatures. So the Watch Tower publications have refrained from applying the term "being" to humans in order to enhance the inherent quality of self-perpetuating existence that persists in Jehovah God. However, as you say, according to the definition of modern dictionaries human creatures are human beings. If anyone wants to use the modern dictionary meaning he is free to do so, but in the light of what is above said we trust you will understand why our publications have restricted the expression to Jehovah God.

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