Do you remember those families where all the sons and daughters had weird biblical names?
I recall a " Machlon" , "Eunice" , even a "Jehosafath". Can you believe it.
Strange first names among jw's
by fulano 38 Replies latest jw experiences
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James Mixon
Jesus
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Anders Andersen
Yep.
Funny thing: My daughter has a somewhat Biblical name, but we only found out after we liked it.
We got her name from a TV series (with spies and guns and fights lol), and like both the sound and the meaning.So when we thought that must be the name, I started a search to see if that name means anything weird or despicable in other languages, or maybe there is a criminal or terrorist or evil organisation with that name. Basically to prevent accidentally naming her the equivalent of Dick, Adolf, Isis or Watchtower.
That's when I found out that it's actually also a Biblical word, and even with a nice meaning too! Well six months later I became a pomo atheist, but it's funny that we accidentally gave our daughter a Biblical(lish) name (it's not used as a name in the Bible)
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Beth Sarim
Caleb and Sophia.
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Betheliesalot
Kenya
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ShirleyW
When I was a kid growing up in da troof in the 60's I was shocked to find out the name Gomer is biblical, every time you hear that name how could you not think of the bumbling Gomer Pyle from the TV show.
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blisterfeet
I knew someone that named their child “taze”.... it still makes me cringe
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Gorbatchov
Milton , Nathan etc.
G.
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Beth Sarim
or Lyman.