The friends, the truth and loaded language

by detective 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  Kenneson

  "Theocratic warfare"--strategy allowing lying and deception to
  foil enemies of the Watchtower Society.

  "Higher powers"--used at times to mean Jehovah/Jesus and at
  other times civil authorities.

  "Living in the last days"--Armageddon is always just around the corner.

  "Great crowd"--earthly paradise bound (numerous).
  "Anointed"--heaven bound (only 144,000).

  "Torture stake"--implement of Christ's death per Jws as opposed to
  Cross by most others.

  "Parousia"--invisible presence of Christ as opposed to visible second
  coming of Christ.

  Et Cetera.
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  JeffT

  "Undeserved kindness."

  Now that I'm out that one really gets me. It is an absolute corruption of the Greek word for "Grace." And it always seems to be used in connection with selling more magazines or something. Like God did us a favor so now we owe him one back.
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  MarchOn

  Apostasy: an abandoning of what one has believed in, as a faith, cause or principles.

  Apostate: a person quilty of apostasy; renegade

  Definitions taken from Websster's New World Dictionary

  Definition of the above from a JW point of view:

  Apostasy: an abandoning of God

  Apostate: a person guilty of being SATAN in the flesh
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  Bang

  It's simply all hot air.

  "and without Him was nothing made that Was made"

  Bang
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  Soledad

  "false religion" and "true worship" always struck some nerves with me.
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  proandcon

  a local favorite...the "apostates" (anyone who disagrees in any way with their interpretations...
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  proandcon

  how sick was I of hearing about "agape love" (principaled = no warmth or feeling; not affection...
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  proandcon

  how about...

  "privlege"...loke it's a privelege to clean the hall

  "territory"...sounds like the wild west

  "return visit"...keep bugging the uninitiated til they finally tell you to scram

  "backroom"

  "CO"

  "COW" (circuit overseer's wife)

  "total immersion"

  "antitypical"

  "1914 and 1935"

  on and on and on.....
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  larc

  The one I remember hearing as much as "the truth", was "the organization". Now to me. that term sounds good for the Mafia, but not for a religion.

  In the literature, the phrases: doubtless, no doubt, or without a doubt, were usually associated with specualation and guesses. Many of the old statements with these terms in them, look pretty silly today.
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  D8TA

  Yo Tony, Brother Fraido hadn't place any of dem magazines dis week, I think it's time to take 'em for a drive. I'm nawt tawlkin about no car group neither, if you get my meanin.

  D8TA v2.0