Jim_TX, I noticed that right away too. As young as he is, he is coming home from school all alone. Even if the school bus stopped right in front of his house, usually the mothers come outside or are waiting outside.
snakeface
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Showed the new JW cartoon to my non-witness Girlfriend- Take 2
by KidKool inallright my first post messed up and i lost it some kind of way.
haven't posted on here in along time, obviously don't know how to anymore.. trying again.. so i was raised a jw, da for over a decade, of course estranged from parents and jw family, have a teenage son from a previous relationship.. anyways, i wanted to see what someone who had no first hand knowledge of the jws would think.
so i showed my non-jw girlfriend the obey jehovah (go sparlock!
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My take on the new Be Jehovah's Friend DVD
by blond-moment inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrx7ej2b8m.
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snakeface
I guess Caleb has learned to keep his warplane hidden, that he's playing with at the beginning of the video just before stepping on the clean floor.
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Everybody sing along... "Sparlock, we love you!..."
by cedars ini've uploaded a song i've written to youtube, here it is.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wvo71qg7k4.
here is the link to my blog article on the society's new dvd, for those who haven't yet read it:.
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/the-watchtowers-new-toy-story-what-parents-need-to-know.
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snakeface
Sparlock can be our mascot! The other image- with the toes of clay mixed with iron - has fallen. Now Sparlock is the new image, the 9th world power.
We should compose an entire book of Sparlock Melodies and call it "Sing to Sparlock". Update it every 20 years or so. Distribute copies to deserving ones.
We can start publishing a magazine that announces Sparlock's kingdom, the "paradise" where minds are free and no longer enslaved to false religion. Sparlock will put a turning flaming sword at the entrance to the paradise, to keep out nosey elderettes, elders, and the annointed annoying ones.
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Caleb's Mom has some serious issues
by bats in the belfry in.
calab's mom is exhibiting some really psychopathic streaks in talking to him.. her facial expression is on the weird side of things.
if that is the kind of talking to i would have gotten over the years, eventually i would have saddled up, lock and loaded - at best moved out of home at an early age.. .
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snakeface
By that (my above comment) I mean, it is obvious she never had the opportunity to have such toys. She has only had what the WT has provided. Therefore it is such a big deal to her.
Whereas if she had had a "worldly" childhood she would have recalled having many toys herself that the WT would not have approved of.
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WatchTower damages more JW families & children with Sparlock video :(
by mind blown inanother disgusting attempt of the wts controling attempt to know it all.
you can totally see the wts did not consult a therapist, getting professional help/advice on how to handle the situation or message they were trying to convey to the child.
the facial expression of the mother ( is disturbing even to me) while evoking guilt to the child.
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snakeface
Notice in the other video - where Caleb gets footprints on the floor his mother just cleaned - the video begins with Caleb playing with A WAR PLANE. It appears to be an F4U Corsair.
And why do they throw the Sparlock toy away instead of returning it? How do they feel when people accept literature from them and put it right in the trash? Life is all about respecting others' right to have their own beliefs and preferences, rather than "my way or the highway".
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Sparlock: The Sociology of the former Jehovahs Witness community
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inthewatchtower bible and tract society has unwittingly unleashed quite a viral sensation within the ranks of its former members.
to summarise what has happened so far:- become jehovahs friend dvd is released.
it is an animated feature aimed at children with modern computerised graphics.- the antagonist of the relatively brief cartoon is a self-described warrior wizard by the name of sparlock which was obtained by caleb, the young subject of this material.- the unnamed mother in this dvd guilt-trips young caleb into disposing of his sparlock toy.- the video goes viral within the ex-jw community, with youtube videos being posted of the video.
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snakeface
Maybe this comment should be a separate thread....but I noticed when watching the video "Obey Your Daddy and Mommy" or something like that, where Caleb forgets to remove his shoes before stepping on the floor his mother just finished cleaning....
the video starts out with Caleb playing with a war plane. I think it is a F4U Corsair. Notice the "bent" wings. Here's a photo from Wikipedia (if this link works): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AU-1_Corsair_in_flight_1952.jpg
If he's allowed to play with a war plane, then why is he not allowed to play with Sparlock?
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Caleb's Mom has some serious issues
by bats in the belfry in.
calab's mom is exhibiting some really psychopathic streaks in talking to him.. her facial expression is on the weird side of things.
if that is the kind of talking to i would have gotten over the years, eventually i would have saddled up, lock and loaded - at best moved out of home at an early age.. .
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snakeface
You can tell that the mother was born-in.
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Daily walks with my new dog
by QueenWitch insince i'm home by myself i got a shelter dog to keep me company.
her name is samus and she is a poodle mix about 4 yrs old.
she has to be walked at least 2x a day.
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snakeface
That's great! It's physically and mentally healthy for you and for the dog. It gives you two time together. It helps breakup stress.
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The new kids DVD - was it deliberate? What are we missing?
by cedars in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><![endif].
normally i don't go in for these conspiracy theory ideas, but a comment by kurtbethel on another thread got me to thinking.
might this latest dvd actually be proof that there are operatives inside watchtower hq who are deliberately sabotaging the society's material?
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snakeface
You know what would be funny? When the mother opens the trash so the kid can put Sparlock in, she see all the tracts the family had put in all the not-at-home neighbors' doors over the previous weekend.
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The new kids DVD - was it deliberate? What are we missing?
by cedars in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><![endif].
normally i don't go in for these conspiracy theory ideas, but a comment by kurtbethel on another thread got me to thinking.
might this latest dvd actually be proof that there are operatives inside watchtower hq who are deliberately sabotaging the society's material?
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I just saw on youtube the video about the boy bringing sparlock home, and then there's a scene where he's throwing it in the trash as his mother holds the trashcan open.
Why didn't the parents have the boy return the toy to his schoolmate, and have a Bible-based discussion with this friend on why he is returning it? That could be a witness to the schoolmate, which could lead to the schoolmate and his entire family coming into the Truth.......
Here's a more realistic scenario. The boy comes home from school with the toy. The mother is too sick to notice because she's going for cancer treatments. The "worldly" neighbor Mrs Goat who never talks to JWs at her door, is the one who always takes the boy's mother for her cancer treatment even though it means she has to take time away form her own church activites. None of the sisters are available to do so because they are auxiliary pioneering this month and also getting ready to feed the circuit overseer and his wife. The boy's father had to step down from being a MS because his hours are too low, because he has to work 3 jobs to pay his wife's medical bills. Therefore the whole family has been marked as "weak" and "materialistic". None of the JW kids will play with the boy. So Mrs Goat, on the way back from the mother's cancer treatment, brings the boy to a toy store and lets him pick out a toy, because she has noticed that none of the witness kids play with him anymore.
Scene 2. The mother discovers that the boy has the toy and asks where he got it. The boy tells her. The boy's parents are disappointed that it is a toy they do not approve of. However, they want to set an example and teach their son manners, and also that hospitality is a 2-way process: one extends the hospitality (giving a gift) and the other accepts the hospitality and says thank you. They put the toy away somewhere and save it only for whenever Mrs Goat is taking the mother to the doctor, so that Mrs Goat will see the boy playing with it. The boy is old enough to understand that different people have different beliefs and that has to be respected.
Scene 3. The elders come by because the parents have not turned in their time. They see the toy in the house and tell the mother that is what caused her cancer and that she will die at Jehovah's own hands as an apostate and the boy will be an orphan forever. After they leave they are all crying and they call Mrs Goat. Mrs Goat comes over and hugs them all, and brings a meal over. She tells them that all these years she has never criticized their beliefs but has observed many things that shocked her. Mrs Goat assures them that she will always be there for them and that she will gladly find others from her church to help them; after all, her church teaches unconditional love, "the golden rule" and other things like that.
Scene 4. Mrs Goat and her fellow church people continue helping this family through their difficult time, whereas the witnesses continue to tell them how much they are greiving God's spirit and that armageddon is right around the corner...a hospital patient should be able to witness to doctors and nurses in order to get her time if she really took the truth seriously. But of course it's not completely her fault because her "head" is setting a poor example by allowing them to miss meetings.
Scene 5. A year later, the mother has recovered! The whole family is grateful to Mrs Goat and her church friends, including the children who provided companionship for the boy. They sneak into the hall during a meeting and put Sparlock and their dissassociation letters on the magazine counter, only to find out that Sparlock really does have magical powers! Yes, Sparlock stands up, the sound system goes out, the ceiling starts crumbling...the family runs out. But the rest of the congregation stays in, rejoicing that armagageddon has begun and that they are where they are supposed to be in order to survive. The hall collapses, killing everyone inside. But the family is safe because they got out of there just in time.
Scene 6. The church people take up a collection to help surviving family members of the JWs who were killed in the hall. The pastor contacts the WT Scoiety and offers to let them hold their mtgs in the church hall temporarily (for free) until they build a new hall. But the Wt people chew the pastor out, calling it a goat shed and a house of demons, and say that they don't associate with devil-worshippers. The pastor responds that his offer will still be good if they change their minds.
Mrs Goat, the former JW family, and their new friends from the church go on to live happy lives.
