A film that is analogous of the Watchtower's demonization of the Internet and isolation from the outside world...

by cedars 33 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • cedars
    cedars

    So what do you think?

    http://youtu.be/Kq_B_ukrGKo

  • cedars
    cedars
  • Mickey mouse
    Mickey mouse

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_B_ukrGKo&feature=youtu.be

    Yes, see also The Island, The Truman Show, Pleasantville and Tangled for similar themes.

  • cedars
    cedars

    Thanks for coming to the rescue there mate!

    I do find these YouTube linking codes confusing...

    Cedars

  • No Room For George
    No Room For George

    I hated that flick too, but it is a fitting representation of the Watchtower. Somebody on here did a thread on the most recent animated version of the girl with the long hair trapped in the tower being analogous of the Watchtower. I can't recall the name of that film, but the heroines growth and curiosity about the world about was supposed to be similar to that of a born-in JW.

  • Mickey mouse
    Mickey mouse
  • cedars
    cedars

    Thanks No Room For George - nice new avatar by the way. Is that Saddam Hussein moments before the hatch opened?!

    I actually quite liked The Village. It was atmospheric and scary as hell. It isn't entirely analogous, in that the "creatures" turn out to be the village elders or "Governing Body" themselves - but it well demonstrates how easy it is to demonize something that is entirely harmless or doesn't actually exist.

    Cedars

  • sabastious
    sabastious
    I do find these YouTube linking codes confusing...

    What the server does when you submit your post is look for certain parts of your post to "match" preset "link criteria." It's most likely using a regular expression to get the matching done.

    What I believe it matches for is a youtube link (ie http://www.youtube.com/?v=video_id) that is marked as an HTML link.

    So here's the easiest way to make it work on this forum:

    1. Open JWN poster in one tab
    2. Open Youtube video in another
    3. Copy the Youtube video's address bar (http://whatever)
    4. Paste that into the JWN posting text area
    5. Highlight the just pasted link text
    6. Click the "link" icon in the text area formatting pane
    7. Paste the same link text into the LINK URL field in the now popped up hyperlink pane
    8. For the TARGET dropdown choose "new window" _blank
    9. Click insert

    Now the link text should be underlined like a hyperlink. What that does is prepares the video to be correctly matched as a youtube video LINK and therefore replaced with the youtube embeded video player. I'll admit there are more easy, but sometimes unreliable, ways to do it. But using this poster to format the link is your best bet.

    -Sab

  • sabastious
    sabastious

    I do feel that the Village is analogous of the Witnesses. That movie felt too much like a trick then entertainment, so it even works on that plane.

    -Sab

  • cedars
    cedars

    Thanks for the help Sab! I'll consult these intructions next time I post a video.

    Cedars

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