i recently had to accompany an older family member out of state to a family reunion.
it was a big reunion and not much was overtly made of the fact that i am "misguided" and not attending meetings (lost soul that i am) which was nice.
the thing i noticed that i was most struck by was all the dietary quirks in evidence during our 3 days together.
Growing up in the organization I found Witnesses to be obsessed with special diets, holistic medicines, a make believe illnesses. Why go to the doctor when you can eat cabbage soup, put poison botanical oil in your drinking water, and get your bones cracked by a chiropractor?
The answer is simple - window washers don't have medical insurance.
i went to see blade runner 2 because i liked the first one.
even tho the first one was i think rated r, i still saw it.
the whole atmosphere of the first one was bizarre and real to itself.. if you don't want to be spoiled, don't read on.. with high hopes, despite hearing that it tanked at the box office (are the critics crazy?
I am a huge fan and student of the original Blade Runner. I have seen 4 of the 5 versions (I need to see the work print). I've also read "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" which is a must read.
If you are not a fan of Blade Runner, which there seems to be just as many haters as fans, you will most likely not enjoy Blade Runner 2049. In addition, if you have not watched the short films Blade Runner 2022, 2036, and 2048 you will not get the full effect of the film.
Blade Runner 2049 did not have the same feel as the original, but it was similar. This is in part two things - 1) the blackout of 2022 started a sort of nuclear winter. This is why it's snowing instead of raining all the time. It also effected the cityscape as well. 2) CGI over practical effects. CGI has killed the visual of all movies. Nothing can replace practical effects.
Story wise, Blade Runner 2049 makes sense.
It's not as good as the original, but nothing could ever be. If you read Future Noir you'll see why.
"the way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.
now you will have peace for eternity.
" -- maleva, the wolf man.
"I was quit when I when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now." - Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, Blade Runner 1982
is jehovah the creator ?.
apparently jehovah created the "word" or "logos" ( jesus).
and he never created anything else according to bible scripture.. however the first born of creation the logos /jesus was used to create everything else in the material world.. so then isn`t jesus also a creator ?.
My father taught us Jehovah created Jesus. From there Jesus created everything with Jehovah. "Let us make..."
i was withh a friend of mine who is a jw still and for whatever reason we started talking the bible.
i asked him about lazarus and how is that when he died he paid the price of sin, but then jesus resurrected him.
and i asked him "where is lazarus today?
"And just as it is reserved for men to die once for all time, but after this to receive a judgment" - Hebrews 9:27 NWT
i was withh a friend of mine who is a jw still and for whatever reason we started talking the bible.
i asked him about lazarus and how is that when he died he paid the price of sin, but then jesus resurrected him.
and i asked him "where is lazarus today?
You are correct. Lazarus paid the bill in full. He should have lived forever.
Jehovah's Witnesses can try to crawfish out of that, but they can't and don't let them.
first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.
now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.
whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.
The .22 caliber has been used by men to take more human lives than any "high-powered" ammunition. Also, whatever ammunition used by this old man in Las Vegas was assuredly not "high-powered".
The term "assault rifle" was coined by the media, not by the firearms industry.
Pol Pot Murdered over 2,000,000 people by the age of 55 in the name of Communism. No one bats an eye or calls for the outlawing of Communism because we've never tried "Democratic Socialism". I'm pretty sure he started by disarming the good citizens of Cambodia. They all do that. Stalin. Mao Zedong. Pot. Castro.
The number one tool used for mass murder in the history of the world - fire. Why do civilians need access to fire?
If someone is intent on committing Murder, the only thing stopping them is killing that person first. There is no such thing as "safe".
i am quite interested in something mike and kim said in their video when talking about why their you tube videos are being taken down.
in their video below, at around 35 seconds.
mike say's that he has being trying to tell people that the boys in pennsylvania are the real power behind watchtower - not the governing body?.
1989 is when I remember seeing the green Watchtower letterhead with the Pennsylvania address. I want to say it was in the early to mid-1990s when they went to the "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses". It was about the same time that the organization instructed everyone to stop using the phrase "The Society"(short for Watchtower Bible and Tract Society).
For example - "The Society says true Christians should..."
This was also about the time of the Overlapping Generations.
i want to share my story.
(might be a tad long).
i have no idea where i stand anymore regarding being a jw and where i stand in my marriage.. im 28 years old and the years are certainly ticking by.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Deal with you religious beliefs first. Know the truth and the truth will set you free. Know the Truth and you will a slave to a publishing corporation that uses high control tactics to keep you in.
i am quite interested in something mike and kim said in their video when talking about why their you tube videos are being taken down.
in their video below, at around 35 seconds.
mike say's that he has being trying to tell people that the boys in pennsylvania are the real power behind watchtower - not the governing body?.
When I was 15 I remember the Presiding Overseer (COBE) being one of the 3 elders who went over the baptism questions with me. This was conducted at his house in his study. I remember him showing me two letters -
The first was on the traditional letterhead having the Watchtower official logo in that tan/gold color with the address in Brooklyn, NY. I had seen them many times, especially when I was younger than that. My father had been a Presiding Overseer himself and I would see these letters in his home office.
The second was similar. The logo was in green and the address in Pennsylvania. I had never seen this before.
The Presiding Overseer told me that the second one if a secondary corporation in charge of the legal department for the WB&TS.
Eventually they wanted to distance themselves from the idea that a corporation was in charge of God's earthly organization and started sending letters from "The Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses."
