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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

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  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  Thanks, jambon,

  It’s good to know what we’re up against. I couldn’t understand the audio- but that wasn’t what this was about. Imagery was incredibly powerful. For a change the WT understated instead of sledgehammered until the end when raw Armageddon narrative opened in the brilliant heavens.

  I admit that this film might have shattered me at a certain point when I was leaving. Seeing these actors play out moments that trigger memory of hard choices-hard struggles-you made to get to a meeting to go out ministry. (And now l don’t?—omg- am l a faithless coward?)

  I had to quickly go through my mental file of how certain CERTAIN I am that this religion is distructive of our free will and destroys love and life when it can.

  I realign myself. l recognize the men masked with the balaclavas and menacing with guns —they are the Governing Body. They are the dark ones who subverted, who harassed these people, who skinned and abused these people.

  If there if there is a moment when the forces of Good come to save the Great Crowd, the surprise will come when the masks get pulled from those guys—the creeps are the GB & Co.

  O come Lord Jesus!
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  Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

  by Earnest in

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  tonight (sunday, 13th may) at 20:00 on bbc 2 ... for neanderthal believers, agnostics and deniers.. this first programme in a two-part series investigates what neanderthals looked like and and how they lived in their ice age world.

  it turns out that almost everything we thought we knew about them is wrong.

  they weren't hunched, grunting, knuckle-dragging ape-men at all.

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  Xanthippe—The scientist that sequenced the Neanderthal genome made me smile when he said Neanderthals wanted to stay alive but homosapiens are mad...

  https://youtu.be/e4HoLmjU0DM
  
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  Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

  it disturbs me because it was so well done.

  (i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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  Truly disturbing. Terrible for children.
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  murders at school

  by zeb in

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  at a school in santa fe in the us.

  many people killed and wounded.

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  4. Figure our why kids want to go to school and Murder their classmates. This has been going on for 20 years. What has happened in the past 20 years that started this? Why was this not happening since 1999?

  Every thing you said rings true, truth_b_known. But l highlighted the last part because l think it is the biggest problem of all.
  
  
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  Foetus baptism

  by Fay Dehr in

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  foetus baptism - surely coming to a watchtower study article soon?

  jw parents are reminded of 2 ti.3:14,14 "from infancy you have known the holy writings".

  and the watchtower explains the greek word bre'phos "infancy" as follows: "...it is generally used of an unborn child.

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  Jayzus, Hairtrigger. You sound like St. Thomas announcing the Immaculate Conception! You a theologian?
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  Did You Care About The Royal Wedding?

  by minimus in

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  i don’t get it.

  who really cares?

  in the usa, it’s such a huge newsworthy event.

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  Good for you, Dagney. And so we saved ourselves while the cult sucked away at our simple joys and friendships.
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  Misogynist? You‘ll like this. Man hater? You’ll like this. Or maybe you just love W.C.Fields humor.

  by humbled in

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  https://youtu.be/we_2uqcc_k4.

  what more can l say?.

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  TD- Mae West and Fields were volatile — l read there was no love lost between them. But the tiny tough woman at the bar was Faye (Kelly)Adler.

  There is equal opportunity here for irreverent humor. I love it.

  edit: Oddly it was your remark on a different thread that reminded me of this clip : you asked was it Barbour or Russell and who originated some point of chronology?

  The film, sheriff Fields: “Well, l started kicking her first.”
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  Misogynist? You‘ll like this. Man hater? You’ll like this. Or maybe you just love W.C.Fields humor.

  by humbled in

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  https://youtu.be/we_2uqcc_k4.

  what more can l say?.

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  https://youtu.be/wE_2uqCc_K4

  What more can l say?
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  Hospitality - How not to.....March 2018 study article.

  by punkofnice in

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  what do you make of this part of the march 2018 watchtower study edition?.

  2 among other things, peter urged his brothers: “be hospitable to one another.” (1 pet.

  4:9) the word “hospitality” in greek literally means “fondness for, or kindness to, strangers.” note, however, that peter urged his christian brothers and sisters to be hospitable “to one another,” to those whom they already knew and associated with.

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  Right punky,

  First: l am not Christian. But the piece you have there from the Watchtower study is so against what I understood when I first read the Gospels l want/need to say:

  Lukes gospel reads (paraphrase)when you have a feast don’t ask your friends family and rich neighbors to come. Because they’ll just reward you by asking you back over to feast at their place. Instead ask the crippled lame, blind and the poor people who can’t pay you back. You’ll get your reward in the judgment of the righteous.

  But on the other hand the gospel doesn’t tell us we be twisted about having a good time with friends. Or anyone else for that matter.

  Jesus cooked fish on the seashore for his disciples. Once he said” let’s go to a quiet place and relax”. One that especially resonated was when he was eating at Mary, Larry and Martha’s Place with his friends/disciples. Martha complains to Jesus that Mary was hanging out with the fellas instead of choring in the kitchen . Jesus said not to worry about fixing up so much stuff - the least is enough-choose that and come join us. And Jesus ate with Zacheus the taxman- a social pariah.

  But the Watchtower fetishizes who you eat and hang out with. In fact WT spent a lot of time un-doing anything generous in Jesus’ teachings. Even the JW memorial of Jesus’ death is a ritual of exclusion: The JW “Last Supper“celebrates the invisible savior by emphasizing that no one gets to share in his annual supper.

  It is weird.

  Everyone gets all dressed up on that special Moon to get hammered with scriptures reminding them that 144,000 got a ticket but most don’t. Then a few guys with the best suits are the waiters who take the special bread and wine around the room. Only those most lost in the cult eat or drink so it is mostly the unworthies who pass the holy meal down the rows to the other unworthies. The Memorial effectively emphases that Jesus- for reasons they cannot fathom— will not share his food with them.

  Fucking pathetic.

  It became the emptiest time of the JW year for me. Christmas ran a close second.

  
  

  But we all know the ultimate JW rejection of hospitality —the one that goes all year , year after year. Shunning for the greater glory glory of god and the benefit of the sinner.

  Jesus wept.
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  murders at school

  by zeb in

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  at a school in santa fe in the us.

  many people killed and wounded.

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  I know, zeb. Like you, nearly speechless for the relentless tragedy.