Shooting stars at end of JW video about New Tuxedo HQ

by scotoma 10 Replies latest jw friends

  • scotoma
    scotoma

    The videos on JW.Org are nauseatingly corporate and propagandistic.

    The smiling blondes that are showcased - the big executives sitting at their thrones (authoritative
    desks). The workers clad in their orange safety uniforms like so many worker bees in a hive.

    The word "love" used over and over again. We love the brothers, we love the location, we love
    the RBC members (hate abbreviations that are OK on paper but smack of rigid hierarchical
    structures.) You're going to love this place. City lovers are going to love this lovely location.
    Women driving forklifts and working like men when they can't even talk from a lectern.

    And then at the end they show a starry sky that doesn't represent any part of the known
    heaven-scape and then they go wild with a bunch of shooting stars. How manipulative and pagan.
    Shooting stars are omens of good things to come.

  • jw07
    jw07

    Continuing on this course may be a good thing. Many JWs may soon realise that they are just #4,337,583 in a corporate structure.

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    And then at the end they show a starry sky that doesn't represent any part of the known
    heaven-scape and then they go wild with a bunch of shooting stars. How manipulative and pagan.
    Shooting stars are omens of good things to come.

    It's time-lapse photography. The 'shooting stars' are airplanes. The camera is facing west at dawn. The part of the sky setting behind the hills contains the Summer Triangle (an asterism), a little constellation called Delphinus, some of Capricorn, Hercules ...

    Women driving forklifts and working like men when they can't even talk from a lectern.

    LOL. Excellent point!

  • blondie
    blondie

    When I visited Wallkill I saw a woman using those large stand in the back mowers....and women driving dump trucks. The Bethelite said that women were less likely to "break" them using them as toys.

  • tiki
    tiki

    gag

  • will-be-apostate
    will-be-apostate

    Can you give us the link to the video with the shooting star scene?

  • LostGeneration
  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Absurd. At 4:40 the guy goes on about how they got their permits to build, saying it was only because of Jah.

    So anyone who gets a permit from a town should credit Jah, he's the one behind it all.

  • scotoma
    scotoma

    AnnOmaly,

    I must confess I'm not completely oriented to this planet yet.

    The JW.org is clever enough that if they didn't want the shooting star effect they could easily have removed it.

    I really don't care about the origins of any omens. But they seem to care about origins of such things.

    It just seemed like they were going for a little "magic realism"

    Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." [2] From Wikipedia

  • AnnOMaly
    AnnOMaly

    It wasn't a shooting star effect; was never meant to be a shooting star effect. They're just planes - a common sight in time-lapse videos of the night sky.

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