It is an interesting account and its the unthinking acceptance that Haggis went along with that resonated with me.
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Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
by leavingwt inin the latest issue of the new yorker, paul haggis opens up about his split with the church of scientology.
it is a very lengthy article, and i've quoted some of it, below.
click the link at the bottom for the entire article.
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I think an elder has sussed me out as an apostate. :-S
by slimboyfat inan elder phoned me up the other day to see how i was.
he does this every couple of months, as part of his shepherding routine i suppose.
(at least this elder takes shepherding seriously) i have not been to a meeting for a few months.
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scotsman
Maybe you're just nicer than lifelonghumanist and me and they want you back...
9 years out, not dfed and I've never had them in touch. Wonder what I did wrong right?
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Johnny the Bethelite - Homophobic?
by laverite indid anyone hear the part from the recording of the last 6 screens conference call where johnny talked about a brother being "effeminate?
" johnny mentioned that he refers to this brother as "sister.
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scotsman
Judge Dread
Your definition doesn't chime with Webster
: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
in this context the term has been used in identifying an aversion. You may dislike the anomaly between the construction of the word and current usage but you strict definition of homophobia is inaccurate.
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Johnny the Bethelite - Homophobic?
by laverite indid anyone hear the part from the recording of the last 6 screens conference call where johnny talked about a brother being "effeminate?
" johnny mentioned that he refers to this brother as "sister.
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scotsman
CuriousButterfly
Perhaps you can talk to my family and Witness friends who ceased associating with me as I seem to be have been stuck with the bigoted 20%.
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Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes
by scotsman ini'm hardly the biggest fan but i thought this was genuinely funny.
he held a mirror up to the overpaid botoxed schmucks and some of them found it funny.
but i'm hearing there's a bit of a criticism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvhxzp2spla.
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scotsman
What heights do you have in mind?
One of the 144,000?
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Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes
by scotsman ini'm hardly the biggest fan but i thought this was genuinely funny.
he held a mirror up to the overpaid botoxed schmucks and some of them found it funny.
but i'm hearing there's a bit of a criticism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvhxzp2spla.
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scotsman
I'm hardly the biggest fan but I thought this was genuinely funny. He held a mirror up to the overpaid botoxed schmucks and some of them found it funny. But I'm hearing there's a bit of a criticism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvHXzP2SpLA
But then we're used to this
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Johnny the Bethelite - Homophobic?
by laverite indid anyone hear the part from the recording of the last 6 screens conference call where johnny talked about a brother being "effeminate?
" johnny mentioned that he refers to this brother as "sister.
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scotsman
This boy Jonny's supposedly an active witness, a bethelite right? Then even if he feels trapped he's hardly likely to be a supporter of PFLAG, it's a journey out of the cult and his is embryonic if at all true. I'd lay off the labelling.
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December 2010 Awake Homosexuality
by bottleofwater inanyone have a good read of the ypa article on homosexuality?.
is it just me or is the doctrine becoming more lenient and less dogmatic?.
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scotsman
It's been some time since I read an Awake and had forgotten just how badly written they are. You're right Leolaia, this article is about attempting to control nonJW perception of JWs and their attitude towards homosexuals. If there were any 'out' non-practicing-homosexual elders they might have an argument, but as far as I'm aware most of the 'single' witnesses with responsibilities remain closeted.
But maybe I'm wrong, and once my family read this article they'll start calling me....
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Christopher Nolan's Latest Film: Inception
by leavingwt inspoiler warning: this thread may contain spoilers.
please avoid if you haven't seen the film.
i really enjoyed 'inception' at the theater this past weekend.
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scotsman
That review does make it a bit personal and unlike that reviewer I loved Synecdoche, New York which. Inception doesn't make the viewer question reality any more than a couple of undergraduates do after a joint, whereas Synecdoche was about looking at the value of your life. For me anyway.
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Christopher Nolan's Latest Film: Inception
by leavingwt inspoiler warning: this thread may contain spoilers.
please avoid if you haven't seen the film.
i really enjoyed 'inception' at the theater this past weekend.
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scotsman
My opinion: overblown nonsense that was slightly relieved by some clever CGI. But puhlease, any dream within dream story is just a license to be silly (see Dallas circa 1985). It was sub-Matrix with a large dose of Cubby Broccoli. And as to the fantasy city Cob & Mal built over 50 years, Christ, they were architects and managed to come up with the most banal cityscape possible.
I'll confess that there was some good acting and that the combination of Leo Di C, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt worked well.