by MarkedFragile 6 Replies latest jw friends
I watched "The Great Pumpkin" episode of Charlie Brown tonight. Linus and Sally stay in the pumpkin patch all night waiting on "the great pumpkin." What do you think of the parallels between this clip and the organization? How did Sally's speech at the end affect you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ&feature=related (3:31)
I WAS ROBBED!!!
Nah! I don't give a f**k now. I grew up without it and I can happiliy live without it.
V665
Too busy waiting on Jah in His Ark foregoing living a life to the full.
Whoops, did he say IF armegeddon will come instead of WHEN? One little slip like that can cause you to fall out of the Ark.
When Lucy got up in the middle of the night and that saw Linus hadn't returned, she went out in the cold to bring her brother home from that freezing pumpkin patch and tuck him into a warm bed. Another "evil" apostate shows love and kindness to a misguided, believing family member!
GLTirebiter--yes! Good observation. He still insisted on waiting in that pumpkin patch, sleeping and shivering in the cold. He had invested so much in believing that the great pumpkin would come, and that the pumpkin patch was the only place he could come, that he couldn't give up.
Did you notice how Linus said, "he's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch [or an organization] could be more sincere than this one. You can look all around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy." Wow, what a parallel!
I wonder if this is more metaphorical than we realize?
That is so funny! The WT parallels are so clear. Thanks for that one. I will view that episode differently from now on.
Damn, that hits close to home.
