All About The Words We Used (page 2)

HappyGal

AWAKE!

For a JW---- Awake is a magazine to be read and distributed.

For a former JW---- Awake is someone who knows about TTATT.

blondie

Watch

Tower

In olden days a soldier/guard would be stationed on the top of a tower to watch for the enemy being able to see the dust of the army marching towards a city.

Village Idiot

Theocratic:

Any arrangement or behavior that was approved of was considered "theocratic". Any person or arrangement that did not fall in line was referred to as "untheocratic".

Heart-condition:

A reference to your spirituality as opposed to your needing triple-bypass surgery.

House-holder:

A resident of a house or apartment that was being visited out in field service.

Field-service:

Going out in the door to door preaching.

schnell

@Village Idiot, I told a co-worker they call it "going out in service". He laughed.

Village Idiot

Schnell,
@Village Idiot, I told a co-worker they call it "going out in service". He laughed.

I had a co-worker challenge me to tell him the special phrase the JWs use in the d to d work. He became quiet when I told him "field service".

Another co-worker laughed when I told him that JWs use the phrase "The Truth". He said "What does that mean - that we're in the lie?" He kept joking about it for the next several weeks. Every time he saw me he would say "Hey brother, we're in the lie!"

scratchme1010

Loving the world: That is supposed to be a sign that you are in complete spiritual peril and in a path to destruction of your own doing, with no one else to blame but yourself. It also means that you are not worthy of being seen as a respectable JW in good standing.

When talking to a counselor I asked her what would she say If I say "I love the world". She said that to her it means that you are in good spirit or feel happy. I explained to her what it means in JW-ese, and realized then that simple expressions mean something so way off what they really are supposed to mean for normal people.

smiddy

Goats : Everybody outside of the "truth" were goat like people.

Babylonish people as was philistines ,also to describe worldly people .

ab.ortega

privilege to non-JWs: a special advantage or a right

privilege to a JW : cleaning the toilets

eyeuse2badub

soon to a normal person means--well soon, To a jw it means never!

evidently to a normal person that means facts, evidence to back it up. To a jw it means conjure up some random events and give them meaning!

jehovah to a normal person means the war god of the nomadic ancient hebrews. To a jw it means everything.

jesus to a normal person means a person who lived a peaceful, inspiring life and encouraged others to do the same. To a jw it means nothing!

just saying!

Vidiot

Jeezus, at this point, it's a whole other f**king language that just happens to use English(-ish) words.

All About The Words We Used

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