Random Thoughts 7-5-05: JW's and Monty Python

by Check_Your_Premises 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  Check_Your_Premises

  I have always found the use of the name Jehovah by the jw's to be wholly unremarkeable. I had heard that name many times growing up, from many different denominational backgrounds. When I read pre-Russell Bible commentaries I find the name used consistently and often. The jws always act so amazed that I had heard the name before. When I assure them that I have, they usually dismiss this fact with something like, "well we use it more!!!" type statement.
  

  I have also been amused by how whenever a movie (Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade) or something uses the name Jehovah, they act like it is some sort of validation of their faith. Then I started thinking about the very amusing (but unfortunately too blasphemous for me to watch now) movie "The Life of Brian". There is one scene where this old man gets stoned for using the name Jehovah. Since he is already doomed to death, he starts dancing around saying "Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah". I couldn't help but wonder if a jw would consider the Life of Brian to be some sort of validation of their faith?

  So that got me thinking about Monty Python at the same time I was thinking about the jw's. I couldn't help but notice that the jw's (and any sacred name type sect for that matter) are kind of like the "Knights Who Say Nee" of Christianity. I mean seriously.

  What about saying a word is remarkeable or makes a person in any way special?

  Any moron can say a word!!!

  CYP

  Censer Watchtower esse delendam

  slow-steady-deliberate-relentless
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  greendawn

  It was Rutherford that really got them to use this name at a time when he was really keen to separate his followers from Russell's followers, up to 1931 they all were known as Bible students.
  
  But the name itself means nothing nowadays it was abandoned by the jews themselves before Christ and brought on centre stage by the devious Rutherford in the 20th century.
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  Check_Your_Premises

  
  Wow. I really thought you Monty Python types would have alot more fun with this one.

  I have been forced to say "NEEEE" to you.

  CYP

  Censer Watchtower esse delendam

  slow-steady-deliberate-relentless
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  upside/down

  Love Python...

  Jabberwocky

  Life of Brian

  Holy Grail

  Meaning of Life

  All are classics and full of "truth".... I watch them with my kids.

  Too bad the "society" never uses humor.

  u/d (of the worships the shoe and the gourd class)
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  Scully

  Just for fun, this is a spoof of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit that came out around the same time as the New Light™ on the Generation that would see the last days

  I came across this gem when sorting through some old 3.5" diskettes.... I know it's been posted before and lots of people have probably already seen it, but for the new members, here's an oldie but goodie:

  The Dead Generation

  JWMan 1: "Hello. I've got a complaint."

  Governing Body Member (GBM): "What is it?"

  JW: "This Generation you sold me is dead."

  GBM: "No it isn't"

  JW: "Yes it is, look at it! It ain't even moving since the November 'Towers"

  GBM: "Its not dead, its just been readjusted."

  JW: "READJUSTED!! Its not readjusted, its bloody dead."

  GBM: "You're just not looking at right."

  JW: "How am I supposed to look at it??"

  GBM: "Have you tried squinting?"

  JW: "Shall I hang upside down, too?"

  GBM: "Oh, no,no,no...blood will rush to your brain and you might be tempted to use it. Try looking at it sideways."

  JW: "Nope, its still dead."

  GBM: "Have you tried shaking it?"

  JW: "Look man, I have tried shaking, squinting, staring, blinking, and jumping up-and-bloody-down and its still dead."

  GBM: "It might be pining for the new system."

  JW: "Pining for the new system? Look it would have fallen down long ago if you hadn't nailed it up!"

  GBM: "Maybe it's just resting"

  JW: "It's not resting. It's dead, passed on, ceased to be, gone to meet its maker, passed over, this is an ex-generation!"

  GBM: "You tried squinting?"

  JW: "Yes, and it's still dead. I would like a new doctrine please."

  GBM: "Very well, I have "All Churches Suck" very popular."

  JW: "Does it give a time frame for the end?"

  GBM: "No...no...no it doesn't"

  JW: "Well then it's not a suitable replacement then is it?"

  GBM: "I don't have any more time...."

  JW: "You got plenty since you killed the generation"

  GBM: "I am very busy in the Kingdom work. The only thing I can offer you is vague promises subject to abitrary change."

  JW: "That's it is it?"

  GBM: "Well I'll throw in a general feeling of self-righteousness with a side of arrogance and some denial."

  JW: "That will have to do, make sure you put it in a pretty colored wrapper so I'll feel like I have something."

  GBM: "Putting nothing in a pretty wrapper is our specialty."