In the July 15th WT about Apostates did any one notice that they use the same illustration they used in the Movie Doubt

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  • life is to short
    life is to short

    Did anyone notice that in the July 15th WT right after the apostate article the next one is entitled "Scattering Feathers in the Wind." It is the exact same illustration that Philip Seymour Hoffman used in the movie Doubt to Meryl Streep when she was accusing him of molesting the boys at the school. The WT says it is an old Jewish tale. In the movie Doubt Philip Seymour Hoffman the priest used it as a Catholic story of a women coming to a Priest in confession asking for forgiveness for gossiping and he told her to go home cut open a pillow and scatter the feathers then to come back. When she came back the Priest told her to go back and collect all the feathers to get forgiveness. Then Philip Seymour Hoffman looked at Meryl Streep like Meryl was so wrong in accusing him and gossiping about him.

    We all know that about two years ago the faithful slave used a scene from Forest Gump none the less in an Awake article so they are clearly not above using movie scenes in the writing of the magazines. Now I truly wonder now if this article on gossip could have been from the movie Doubt, granted the illustration is an old one and it probably did come from some old Jewish tale and Catholic tale and where ever else but being that it was just in the movie Doubt that came out just two years ago and dealt with child molesting Priest it makes me truly wonder. When I discovered that there were three child molesters in my hall and I was an elders wife at the time I flipped out that no parents were told. One prominent elder told me I was NOTHING BUT A PURE GOSSIP and he threatened me with DFing if I did not SHUT UP over it. NO PARENTS were to know I was not supposed to tell any of them. One mom that I did tell that this brother was a child molester the elder told me he had to do damage patrol and he had to work to convince he again that this brother was indeed OK to be around children.

    It just makes me wonder if part of the reason for this WT is to do damage patrol about all the child molesters in the JW religion.

    And before anyone starts telling me to go to the police and report this yad, yad, yad I have went to the police and child protection, I have written to Bethel over and over, in fact all the GB have the police and court records of the one child molester in my hall and everything I can get my hands on about the other two. There is only so much one can do as these men did serve their time in prison and now they are free to be around children unless another victim comes forward. That is where why the elders are so ticked at me because in the eyes of the elders these men did their time and I need to GET OVER IT!

    LITS

  • Mickey mouse
    Mickey mouse

    What scene did they use from Forrest Gump?

  • Pig
    Pig

    the pillow thing makes no sense

  • Morbidzbaby
    Morbidzbaby

    @ Pig, yes it does...it's symbolic. Basically, when a person gossips, it's like millions of feathers going everywhere. Once you start telling something to one person, you don't know HOW far and HOW out of hand it will get. The moral of picking up all the feathers is basically that the gossiping woman needed to learn how hard it would be to get back all those words from all those people who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from HER. It's actually a pretty good lesson.

    I'm curious to know what part of Forrest Gump was used as well!

    I wouldn't doubt that they are using movie lines and illustrations...maybe they figure the good little dubbies would never watch anything over a PG rating, so they wouldn't figure out that these illustrations come from popular movies...

  • life is to short
    life is to short

    It was the August 8th Awake of 2008 titled "Life Beyond the Grave-It Is Possible!"

    The first paragraph says "IN A movie several years ago, a young man was shown standing at a dear one's grave. "Momma always said dyin' was a part of life," he said. Then, as the camera focused briefly on the grave marker, he added: "I sure wish it wasn't.""This sentiment expresses the feeling of billions who have lost a loved one in death. What a horrible enemy! Yet, God promises: "As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing." (1 Corinthians 15:26) But why, in spite of an apparent capacity to live indefinitely, do we die? How is death to be removed?"

    That is so totally taken from Forest Gump. Forest Gump is one of my all time favorite movies and I have watched it to many times to count. Right after this Awake came out I re-watched it and sure enough the scene was there.

    Even though I love the movie I was supper surprised to see it in the Awake as it just does not seem like a movie they would endorse.

    LITS

  • exwhyzee
    exwhyzee

    I'm curious to know what part of Forrest Gump was used as well

    My Momma always said "new Light is like a box of cocolates....you never know what you're gonna get.....RUN FORREST RUN !!! "

  • watersprout
    watersprout
    maybe they figure the good little dubbies would never watch anything over a PG rating,

    My dubbie SIL who is 42 won't watch anything over a PG! She might see actors kissing or saying a naughty word! Grief she does my head in! *shakes head* Sorry LITS totally off topic. *Retreats to put a pot on*

    Peace

  • life is to short
    life is to short

    I think you are right Morbidzbaby and watersprout about them thinking an good dubb would never go to anything over a PG maybe even a G rated movie especially after this July WT showing them service group going out to the movies dressed like they just got done with field service.

    Just when you think they would not or could not get any crazier then they do.

    LITS

  • Gayle
    Gayle

    Well, where does one draw the line between gossip and information to protect people, especially for children. Then again, the Bible maybe was a "National Inquier" airing people sins a plenty. Cain 'murders own brother', Noah found drunker than a skunk, found by sons, Lot has sex with own daughters, and now they are pregnant, King David commits adultery, Judas rats out his best friend Jesus for a bribe leading to his death, 'money deceptions in the Temple'. - list goes on. Gossip can be destructive though for sure. But exposure of crimes and some dishonesty and lies, like what the WTS has done must be 'aired.'

  • agonus
    agonus

    God, that is so weird you should mention Forrest Gump. No more than a couple of nights ago I was talking to a friend about the "Feathers in the Wind" thing and was reminded that the opening and closing scenes of Gump show a feather blowing in the wind. I decided I'd call the new "dumber" Kool-Aid the Forrest Gump Edition because that's the apparently the intelligence level they're shooting at now... or aspire to shoot at. Forrest, of course, is an absolute savant compared to anybody on the GB. If he were running the show, things would improve drastically.

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