Makes you wonder if they play it on the weekend and sell popcorn. I wonder if the WT will think it's a good idea (hey but wait, they didn't think of it) or put out a memo - No thinking outside the box we put you in.
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Cart Witnessing along with dramas on the big screen?
by Tahoe inhttps://youtu.be/f40ukvgjsqw.
is it the first of april already?.
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Can you ever see a time when Govt`s of this world will attempt to abolish all religions ?
by smiddy3 inwe are now in the 21st century of our common era with its insights into the potential of what can be achieved in the near future to benefit mankind for years to come .. the co-operation of governments around the world on so many levels has never been better than it is today and it is at least encouraging to see this .. whether it has to do with the climate , the environment ,food production ,safe water for all ,and the better health for all in the near future, and in the future space exploration.
however the problem today is still religion !
in its many extreme forms that divides us in no ways that politics divide us .. politicians learn how to compromise and work with their opponents for the greater good ,whereas religions don`t.. religions divide humans like no politicians ever did well not to the extremes religions will go anyway.. is their going to come a time in history when governments politicians say enough is enough and try attempt to abolish religion ?.
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It is the opium of the people
I heard that many many years ago and didn't understand it. Now I get it. Especially after seeing a documentary about very poor people that lived where drugs were grown. They didn't have enough to eat, even the babies. So they would give the children opium so that they didn't feel the hunger. Everyone was addicted to the opium. It made their life bearable.
Until death is gone, there will be some kind of religion. Religion dulls the pain of death like the opium. Unfortunately, the ones who make religion a successful business, are sociopaths at best.
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Article: Jehovah's Witness child sex abuse survivor urges examination of NZ church
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108217408/jehovahs-witness-child-sex-abuse-survivor-urges-examination-of-nz-church.
tom hunt18:56, nov 11 2018. it started with movies and bowls, but soon luke hollis was a young boy performing sexual acts on a jehovah's witness man four-times his age.. to hear hollis, now 28 and living in wellington, talk of the ordeal that tormented him for years during his childhood in england, it is remarkable how matter-of-fact he is.. but he is the first to admit he has a vendetta against his former church.. he wants to see jehovah's witnesses held accountable and he wants the church to apologise.
but mostly, he wants it to fully shed its "two witness" rule – a policy he argues makes the church a beacon for child sexual predators.. read more: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108217408/jehovahs-witness-child-sex-abuse-survivor-urges-examination-of-nz-church.
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Massey University senior lecturer Heather Kavan, who researches religion, said while the Jehovah's Witness church was not necessarily a "hotbed" of sexual abuse, when it did happen it could be worse for victims who were manipulated into fearing the offender as well as God.
"As well as this, it's more traumatising for a survivor to report abuse to the Jehovah's Witnesses than it is to report it to the police," Kavan said.
"One survivor who spoke to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse said that going through three criminal trials was easier than going through Jehovah's Witnesses processes."
It's a very well written article. Just shows what kind of "love" the JW religion really has.
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Favorite Classical Pieces, Sonatas, Concertos, Etudes etc...
by blondie in... filling in holes in my cds.
give me composer, work, key if possible.
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This might fall into the "classical" category or not. When Xanthippe mentioned The Steppes of Asia, I remembered this piece of music from Mongolia. The lead musician is playing a Morin Khuur, a two string instrument. The finger placement is interesting because they go above and below the strings. It always sounds like a voice to me because the notes bend.
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What are your favorite musical scores in film?
by LoveUniHateExams inhi guys!.
this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.
here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .
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Can I cheat and say the series was a movie?
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What are your favorite musical scores in film?
by LoveUniHateExams inhi guys!.
this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.
here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .
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DNcall - Cool. Is he doing music?
Does anyone remember Ben Hur? Miklos Rozsa did the score. At one part in the music you can hear a few lines of what was later in some WT music. I don't know if the WT stole it (who can imagine that?) or he contributed songs to the wT. I can't pin it down right now, I'd have to listen to the whole soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueS07YbMeUw
A great march maker as well as making it sound a little raw with all of the brass.
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What are your favorite musical scores in film?
by LoveUniHateExams inhi guys!.
this thread is at least partly inspired by blondie's classical music thread.. i'm not particularly a musical person but i do appreciate good scores in film.. what are your favorites?.
here's a well-known movie score i like .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdleusg9ew .
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Before John Williams, there was Eric Wolfgang Korngold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NqTuTDTGE
Actually, I love the classical's too because they were the movie music of their time. They accompanied plays. Like Debussy. Any music that can invoke images and stir emotions is what I like. There are too many of them for me to pick a favorite.
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Watchtower Nov 3 2018 All about God and his feelings
by days of future passed inthis is a subject that the wt has covered many times.
it uses the example of human feelings as a basis to understand god.. for instance: under the heading "does god notice you?
", it goes into great detail of about what a woman feels when she bonds with her child.
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blondie - wow what a rollercoaster of emotions. All dependent on your mothers meeting attendance. Such a terrible thing to have to contemplate as a child.
As someone that grew up in this religion, you think about the deaths of others at Armageddon - but the WT has a scripture for that too. Whenever I thought of people being destroyed I would think that God knew peoples heart and wouldn't destroy any that were good. Haha sadly I always thought that he would destroy me at Armageddon because I sinned in so many small ways and was never forgiven.
In the article "Who is To Blame?" after a list of selfishness, greed, time and unforseen occurrences and Satan, it says CONSIDER: Only a heartless, diabolical evildoer would cause innocent people to suffer.
So they admit that there are "innocent" people suffering. But the person who has caused this - GOD. He condemned the "innocent" children of Adam and Eve to a short life of suffering. At least this is something "truthful" from the WT. Not that I believe it anymore.
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Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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I'm just in the bay area and my cat came in. He smells like he had been sitting in a fireplace. I don't have a mask but I have to run out for something. Wonder if there is any to buy still.
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Watchtower Nov 3 2018 All about God and his feelings
by days of future passed inthis is a subject that the wt has covered many times.
it uses the example of human feelings as a basis to understand god.. for instance: under the heading "does god notice you?
", it goes into great detail of about what a woman feels when she bonds with her child.
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This is a subject that the WT has covered many times. It uses the example of human feelings as a basis to understand God.
For instance: Under the heading "Does God Notice You?", it goes into great detail of about what a woman feels when she bonds with her child. Then it says that close bond was designed by our creator. At the end of 3 paragraphs, it says CONSIDER: If God created such a complex system to ensure that a human mother will tenderly observe her baby and respond to the infant's needs, does it not seem logical that God also takes a personal interest in us, "the children of God"? -Acts 17:29
The thing is, a human mother wouldn't sit around and just watch a child become sick without doing something. Parents have traveled the world and incurred great debt in an attempt to cure their children. God however, just wants you to know he "notices" you.
At the end of the two page article, it gives an experience of "hannah" from England. In short, she felt God didn't love her, her prayers weren't answered, felt it was from her lack of faith, felt like she was being punished or ignored because she wasn't important enough and that God didn't care.
What proved to her that he did? Mostly it was just reading about how great he was (I would assume articles like this) she said her prayers were answered (what did he answer? never said) "his willing desire to look after us individually"
So in reality, you have to convince yourself because no miracles or direct communication occurs.
So there are 4 articles like this. If I was a witness now, I'd be nodding my head in agreement although I myself, would not be feeling like I was helped by God. I would say "Hannah" is saying what many witnesses feel. Unloved and unnoticed by God. Praying without results and feeling like something is wrong with you.
One of the experiences (if it is true) under the heading "Does God Understand You?" is a mother who not only had breast cancer - undergoing surgery, chemo and radiotherapy - she also had a daughter with hydrocephalus. And she was a widow. No miracles or cure, she just recited "the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mental powers. Made her feel like she had a close personal bond with God.
So this is the sugar pill effect. Which people do need to have sometimes when you have nothing else. But it just another example of people doing it for themselves. God doesn't impart health or direct help.
Under the heading "God Will Soon End All Suffering" When will God Act? Very soon! Jesus revealed that a particular generation would witness a unique combinations of conditions that would mark the last days of a "system of things" The fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy in our day indicates that God's intervention in human affairs is imminent.
Notice it doesn't say "Overlapping generation" and guess what? It's Very Soon!
I should put the copy back on the porch so my time counting JW doesn't get a placement point. It's so hard to even browse this stuff.