New Blog on Knocking Movie- Check it out

by Dogpatch 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  Dogpatch

  It's Jonestown and their serving cool aid.

  http://knockingjw.blogspot.com/

  Another point made in the film is the courageous stand Witnesses take on blood transfusions which has resulted in great advances in modern medicine.
  
  Whenever you have to defend a defenseless position, trot out the old red herring. Yes Witnesses are not likely to get blood transmitted diseases. And if they live close to some mega city hospital, they can get those fancy advanced procedures which might work.
  
  Out in your town / my town if you are a Witness and have a traumatic loss of blood, say in an auto accident, you are probably going to die. I’ve seen Witnesses do the heroic thing and bingo we’re going to another funeral of a hero.
  
  My best friend’s sister died in early her 20’s after an auto accident. The Witnesses all huddled around the parents encouraging them not let her be given blood. Dumb theology scores one: human life is zero.
  
  My first wife had massive internal hemorrhaging. Being a good witness she refused blood. The doctors were desperate. She was screaming at them “No blood! No blood.” The doctor told me she was going to die within the hour. I hoped inside she would go unconscious and I could make a sensible decision to save her life. Not to happen.
  
  Somehow she telephoned the elders who rushed on down. Sensing that I was wavering, they swarmed me, pulling me away from the triage area. “Let’s get a cup of coffee.” Other elders threatened the doctors with a lawsuit. Somehow the doctors pulled it off and she survived. We had two little kids. The elders didn’t care if they had a mother. They only cared about their flawed theology.
  
  Later I wondered how Jews, who are supposedly keepers of the flame on the blood issue, understand the biblical injunction to not eat blood to mean just that – don’t eat blood.
  
  Jehovah's Witnesses are more stubborn that the Pope. They get a wrong idea in their head, wrap it in unrelated scriptures and you've got theology. Most of them at the top are poorly educated and have not been exposed to proper academic background in logic or theology. It shows. Of course, that's a great recipe for a religion that is popular with a disenfranchised part of humanity. It also explains their fanatical desire to be different from the mainstream.
  
  When I was a practicing JW, I felt like Jim Jones and Jonestown. Any minute they were going to start serving the Cool Aid.

  Posted by Stephen Pate at 5:40 PM 0 comments
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  Dogpatch

  If you get any email or info regarding Knocking, just send people this URL!

  Randy
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  Dogpatch

  Also be sure and send some comments for the blog, let's advertise it!

  Randy
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  sf

  Thanks.

  His entire blog is a good read and has 'tools', such as:

  http://knockingjw.blogspot.com/2007/01/email-from-film-makers.html

  SOME PBS STATIONS WON'T SHOW KNOCKING
  Even though KNOCKING is scheduled for a national PBS broadcast on May 22, 2007, as many as one-quarter of local PBS stations will not show KNOCKING. Local stations are allowed to replace the national PBS schedule with their own programming. If you want to see KNOCKING on your local station, you must contact your local programming director to make sure he does not cancel KNOCKING. To learn why some PBS stations won't show KNOCKING and to ensure
  that your local station will, visit this link: http://www.knocking.org/PBS_Station_List.html

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  And this:

  http://knockingjw.blogspot.com/2007/01/there-is-no-free-speech-for-jehovahs.html

  There is no free speech for Jehovah's Witnesses

  Jehovah’s Witnesses are against civil liberties.
  
  Knocking makes much about the Supreme Court cases in which Witnesses have achieved religious freedoms and freedom of speech. Not to denigrate those wins, the rights are really organizational to the WatchTower Bible and Tract Society (WTBTS) which is the publishing arm of the JW’s. Most of the cases are related to Freedom of Religion. See for a synopsis.
  
  Has the individual JW earned any right to speak freely in public? No. He has earned the right to say what the WTBTS tells him to say. So when they hold public meetings or call on your door, everything they say is carefully scripted by the WTBTS. There is no variance allowed from the information in the Watchtower or Awake magazines.
  
  To vary one’s speech from the taught and accepted words and ideas results in being reproved and if you don’t recant disfellowshipped.
  
  This is not an unusual group policy to enforce group think. The more neurotic the group, the less tolerant it is of dissent. Mature religions, who understand and accept their place in the cosmos, usually tolerate a wide range of divergent opinion. For example, see American Catholics who express many opinions on core church doctrine that are not the same as the Pope. They remain Catholics and continue to practice free speech.
  
  Witnesses are constantly watching each other to see if one of their flock is varying in views from the orthodoxy. They will turn each other into the elders if they hear things that are different from the WTBTS.
  
  There is no free speech for a JW.

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  Excellent flyer material.

  sKally
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  inlove2

  Sorry if I am a little confused. Is this film is good or bad? Seems to me, to be protraying a very positive postion for JW's. Any one seen the whole movie? How come no news about it from the meetings?

  Repeat .....a little confused, so what else is new, remember, my husband is trying to convert me!!!

  Inlove2
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  carla

  bttt
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  Gayle

  Can all of you help me? I am sending a letter to each of the Universities, Libraries, Museums that are doing a pre-showing of the "Knocking" listed here: (about 20 addresses)

  http://www.knocking.org/On_the_Big_Screen.html

  Also, please send one to:

  Public Broadcasting Service, Headquarters

  2100 Crystal Dr, Arlington, VA 22202

  Also, please look under website of PBS for your local PBS station to get your local address, by just entering your "zip" .

  My theme is "Knocking Their Members Around"

  Gayle in Phoenix ([email protected])
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  ColdRedRain

  It's Jonestown and their(sic) serving cool(sic) aid. Tell the person who wrote that blog that he made a few grammar errors.