"Love in Time of Cholera"

by hamsterbait 1 Replies latest jw friends

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  hamsterbait

  What a beautiful film.

  I read the book years ago, and forgot it all. The film just brings so much of the sadness humor farce (I thought of "Canterbury Tales")

  But the last bit - I paraphrase - maybe you have the book still:

  "I have discovered that it is not death that is infinite, but LIFE."

  At the same time, looking at it now, it also shows the awful situation of a JW. Who loves an ideal, set of doctrines which lead him to waste his life, whilst distracting himself with trivia, or losing the real passion of life when a second opportunity comes along. meanwhile the organization moves on and does what it wants. A happy ending here is false.

  The book and film assert our right to love and be and enjoy every second of our life - it is infinite.

  Our death is not. I think it deserved the Nobel Prize for literature. What do you think?

  HB
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  WTWizard

  Who loves an ideal, set of doctrines which lead him to waste his life, whilst distracting himself with trivia, or losing the real passion of life when a second opportunity comes along.

  This is the scam part of the Watchtower Society. Who wants to live forever learning about the various agreements and classes of people, and what they mean, when they are essentially identical (and interchangeable, except for some tiny nuance that the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger keeps changing). Then you are supposed to forever be knocking on doors, alienating yourself from everyone that could have been friends (or more) to you, instead of living your life.

  meanwhile the organization moves on and does what it wants.

  Up to and including using you to help it start the whole world into the Second Dark Ages. Once they have enough people in the cancer, and enough money, they intend to use the legal system (playing their usual monkey business) to forcibly take control of the whole planet and everything on it. (Hey, the early Catholic church did that to kick off the First Dark Ages). Freedom will be long gone, and people will live as property of the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger. That is not the way most people want to live forever. And they do not advertise that in their littera-trash.