question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.
i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.
it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.
splash: Rain man? Elephant man? 50 first dates? Monty Python having men play women?
I also remember Sigourney Weaver playing an agorophobic.
To add to your list:
The Other Sister (1999) - Juliette Lewis plays a mentally challenged young woman.
Forest Gump (1994) - Gary Sinese plays Lieutenant Dan who uses a wheelchair after the loss of his legs.
And what about Brad Pitt playing Benjamin Button?
chunyun - the spring festival (or, the chinese new year festival) is coming soon.
and all over china and the chinese diaspora people are excited as they prepare for this festival.
as prosperity has spread through china, more and more people can now afford to travel.
Happy New Year!!!!!
Don't forget - it is unlucky to wash your hair on the first day of the New Year.
Good luck and prosperity in the year ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k
Simon: It sounds like you want to decide what every Christian, Muslim and Atheist does and doesn't believe and what they would say and how they will act.
Seems a little presumptuous to me.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
at the meeting today several elders commented about the wonderful program that they attended yesterday on the new kingdom hall designs.
they said that the new halls are going to be so beautiful with lots of windows and glass panels and that the lights will be kept on in the lobby 24/7 so that you can see into the hall at night and that thousands of these halls must be built.
then five minutes later they are talking about how close the end is and that we will be meeting in basements in the near future.
Startrekangel Why build new stuff if the end is so close? It was explained to us when we used our AH for the first time. This building build become educational centers for the resurrected. True story..
Exactly. I don't think the notion of building KHs and buying up property is incongruous with the idea of The End is Near.
After all, everything that is touched by the WTS is magically protected - whatever they own is seen as having Jehovah's favor. Therefore, all that 'stuff' will easily survive Armageddon and be there for the JW New Millennium.
They believe that the day after Armageddon, the faithful JWs will emerge from the basements of the KHs all over the world, take a look around, and be blessed because Jehovah's property survived. And not only that, but all the worldly mansions and property coveted by the faithful will be preserved for them.
It's magic. Jehovah will protect their property from destruction.
this is the article that kicked off many of the changes that are being made (new kingdumb halls) and the new wbats we see today.
i guess it was their way of saying: "i told you so".... i have to say their brand management, pr staff and rebranding is amazing!
they rival apple when it comes to their level of marketing!!!
Jehovah's celestial chariot:
i was just watching cedars prank call to tomo3.
by the way lloyd very well done and totally funny.
but on a more serious note (and i think what must be of concern to the gb) are the amount of leaks that must be occurring at a senior level or at least by a person who has access to sensitive information.
JWgonebad: the whole world will catch 'Jehovah' and higher-ups with their pants down!
Eeeeewwww. You had to do that, didn't you? Now I have this horrible image in my head.
Fat old men with their pants down.
...shudders....
i was just watching cedars prank call to tomo3.
by the way lloyd very well done and totally funny.
but on a more serious note (and i think what must be of concern to the gb) are the amount of leaks that must be occurring at a senior level or at least by a person who has access to sensitive information.
village idiot: In my opinion t's best not to mention this too much because they might read it and be provoked into starting a witch hunt in Bethel.
Village Idiot, (in my opinion) each and every word posted on this site is read by someone within the WTS 'power circle', or, at the very least, by someone appointed to do so.
gda: it would be great if leaks at the senior level were one of the GB's.
this is what obama recently had to say about religion and how it is causing problems in the world... the prophecy is coming true!!!
we apostates are doomed!!!.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=afndil42e20.
And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
True that.
The WTS has been drinking blood for the past 70 years.
google translation:.
condemned the perpetrators of the pyramid scam 700 jehovah's witnesses.
barcelona, february 6.
vidiot: JWs are particularly susceptible to MLMs and pyramid schemes, in my observation.
It is the JWs obssesion with 'approved' health care options that make them particularly vulnerable to those who seek to profit from the WTS' twisted policies about blood and other misguided notions about medical science.
from the article:
The network operated by the Rural societies New Life and Mutual Life Mas, who justified their existence with healthcare policies where doctors "noninvasive" treatments are guaranteed, which was key to attract Jehovah's Witnesses.
