darkspilver
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Article: Jehovah’s Witnesses Holds Women Back
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/jehovahs-witnesses-women-religion-serena-williams-news-81664/.
by lydia segebrecht december 16, 2016. an open letter to serena williams about jehovah’s witnesses’ treatment of women.. dear serena,.
i want to start by applauding everything you said in your open letter that was reproduced on the guardian website last week.
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JWs vandalizing homes/property of apostates
by StarTrekAngel ini have read over the past few years of many cases of elder harassment and unwanted visitations.
however, there is a couple of stories out there where it has been presented that eventually the apostate in question comes home one day to find that their home has been trashed or covered with graffiti, which by the words written, seems to imply that it was a jw taking "revenge" or seemingly delivering divine justice against the apostate.
most of these are stories i've read online from several years ago.. have you individually or the group ever heard or stumbled upon these cases?
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darkspilver
This doesn't count does it, but still...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/metro-orlando/volusia-county-ORLS0035-topic.html
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Bahamas Bethel Sale
by darkspilver ini kinda thought it had already been sold?.
these video's look new and have only been uploaded to youtube in the last couple of days (12 to 15 deceber 2016).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcusr1hprc4.
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darkspilver
Hey ToesUp!
Wow...lots of empty seats. Good to see!
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Just seems that the visitor got to his first congregation meeting early
Although no increase last year, the JW-to-population ratio is 1-in-230
The 1,630 publishers are conducting as average of 1.27 studies each
The Memorial attendance was 4,198 - that's an average of 155 attenders-per-congregation
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Bahamas Bethel Sale
by darkspilver ini kinda thought it had already been sold?.
these video's look new and have only been uploaded to youtube in the last couple of days (12 to 15 deceber 2016).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcusr1hprc4.
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darkspilver
I kinda thought it had already been sold?
These video's look new and have only been uploaded to youtube in the last couple of days (12 to 15 Deceber 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcusr1hPrc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-YMetEwPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_58zoq6py4
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Standing for the National Anthem?
by eyeslice2 inwe are currently living in a country where at the cinema the national anthem is played before the start of the movie and it is law that you stand.
does anyone know what current jw thinking is on this?
i know there has been various changes over the years.
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darkspilver
Hi Nevuela
Um, what country is this?
Huh? Not everybody on this forum lives in the US. I don't think you've been keeping up with the news have you? do you read a newspaper? or just the W & A?
As it seems like a question that has kinda just arisen for the OP, it sounds like India....
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VIDEO: Weekend Meeting 3/4 December 2016
by darkspilver inweekend meeting 3/4 december 2016. public talk: into the new world under christ’s rulership.
watchtower study: "do not forget kindness to strangers”.
(note actual meeting starts from approximately 21 minutes in).
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darkspilver
East English Congregation at 609 Paradise Ct, Gaithersburg MD 20877-1234
Sunday 11 December 2016
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Standing for the National Anthem?
by eyeslice2 inwe are currently living in a country where at the cinema the national anthem is played before the start of the movie and it is law that you stand.
does anyone know what current jw thinking is on this?
i know there has been various changes over the years.
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darkspilver
I think the WT's views have become more fudged over time - particularly as we've become more multi-cultural with a mix of nationalities living and working together - much like DoC states
DesirousOfChange - Personally, I now always stand -- out of respect -- just as every person of every nation does t the Olympics for the National Anthem of other countries. Clearly they are NOT showing any loyalty to other nations. Nor or they "praying" in behalf of other nations. They are merely showing respect.
But prologos probably best sums up WT's general view very succinctly
prologos - The idea was that give honour to the one demanding honour. you always stayed a notch below the crowd, you can stand, but not raise your arm to Heil, or cover your heart, or sing.
The real problem though - and therefore the real fudge - is highlighted by stuckinarut2
stuckinarut2 - Do they not know of the countries in south America where NATIONAL FLAGS ARE FLOWN on the KINGDOM HALLS each year????
Now check out the official WT Correspondence Guidelines: Flag Salute and Anthems
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VIDEO: Midweek Meeting w/c Mon 5 Dec 2016
by darkspilver inmidweek meeting w/c mon 5 dec 2016. meeting schedule / workbook.
you need to click through to youtube to watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icxi1q3_x8.
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darkspilver
This is the same meeting - but from a different congregation
East English Congregation at 609 Paradise Ct, Gaithersburg MD 20877-1234
This one's admittedly a bit more interesting due to the following....
The Blue JW logo - yes! on the back wall of the platform! haha not seen that before??!
Local Needs 54:20 - "Assist the Elderly and Infirm Ones" - includes witnessing in local care homes and hospices with experiences and feedback etc
Local Announcements 1:38:30 - includes the congregation's monthly summary Accounts Report
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VIDEO: Midweek Meeting w/c Mon 5 Dec 2016
by darkspilver inmidweek meeting w/c mon 5 dec 2016. meeting schedule / workbook.
you need to click through to youtube to watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icxi1q3_x8.
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darkspilver
Sorry, seems like I posted the w/e meeting in the OP rather than the m/w meeting - when I originally posted it, my posts where being queued and not being displayed straightaway so I wasn't able to check it once it was 'live' and edit it at the time - anyway here's a link to the midweek meeting:
Of possible interest is
Local Needs 44:30 - "Do Your Eyes of Faith See Jehovah"
You need to click through to youtube to watch the video
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Film: "Worldly Girl" ("La Ragazza del Mondo" original Italian title)
by darkspilver inplease note - this is in italian!.
an italian movie - hat tip to room 2015. worldly girl (2016)la ragazza del mondo (original title).
1h 41min, drama romance9 november 2016 (italy).
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darkspilver
PLEASE NOTE - this is in Italian!
An Italian Movie - hat tip to Room 2015
Worldly Girl (2016)
La ragazza del mondo (original title)1h 41min, Drama Romance
9 November 2016 (Italy)When Giulia meets Libero, she discovers there may be another destiny awaiting her, as they embark on an intense period together. A choice that leads to Giulia being completely cut off from the Jehovah's Witness world she belongs to.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5917958/
I believe the official website: http://www.bolerofilm.it/scheda_arrivo.php?id=36
Includes a link to the press book: http://www.bolerofilm.it/materiale/pressbook/la-ragazza-del-mondo-pressbook.pdf
Clips and Trailer below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nongtj2QQzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMr5NGeuwtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rba-XtZ2nxMThe press book says, in part (via google translate)
I have always had great interest in the themes of identity, the construction of the person, of the relationship between individuals and society.
What religious orthodoxy is in my opinion an ideal setting to explore these issues, because the manifestation of individual will clash, inevitably, with those that are the ethical sovrastruttu king and the community thought.
Precisely for this reason, despite my film is dominated by a story complex, passionate love, I consider him a story by training and not a romance film. Love of Self, a boy from the past d ifficile, pushes the heroine in search of its identity, but it is not the end point of his journey: it is only the catalyst for change. The real emancipation of Giulia will come when he will learn to rely on their own strength.
This film speaks of a girl who becomes a woman.
Imagine a young man of eighteen who has a beautiful family who loves her, many friends, a life all in all quiet and that despite this, decides on her own to put everyone against. The only person who sustains it is the one for which she left home, her new love. That while it is the salvation, freedom, on the other hand it is also a threat in the eyes of her who is asked every day when we see if they have fatt or right, if it's worth it have hurt so many people to chase his own pleasure and feelings. Love has a huge driving force immediately. But then the problem is when the days and months pass, when you are glossier and cer ca to understand if you resist in a new world that has always been demonized in which he lived, however, knowing they will not belong to him, not recognizing themselves in its culture, its institutions, tolerating him.
The protagonist of the film is dominated by a strong burst of evolution that leads to upset his life. But it is a silent revolution that of Julia, shy heroine who makes no claims or monologues but acts and does not stop. The inner evolution of the girl, however, is slower and more complicated of his actions: do not you stop being a Jehovah's Witness from one day to another.
Julia also leads in fact married life the legacy of his religious education and even when it seems far away from his God back to invoke with prayer. Adherence to the "world" that we told is not a complete uprooting, Manichean. In Giulia continues to throb, so new and probably under track, a religious sentiment, a faith. But unlike in the past, it will be a faith that maybe potr à live with the search for a personal journey, an individual and not individualistic in the world.
I tried to be strict in the representation of Jehovah's Witnesses, building a world as real as possible. This was very important the study phase and documentation that accompanied the writing, during which I and screenwriter Antonio Manca we verified - through lectures, meetings with Jehovah's Witnesses and interviews with escapees, but also visits to the "salt of the Kingdom "- the adhesion of our script to reality.
However from the point of view of expression I am intentionally more free. If in general the acting and photography are in a naturalistic direction, and often the machine by hand contrib ute to the feeling of watching a real movie theater, in many cases directed it performs stronger and explicit choices: not with an intention Mannerist but to help give more lyricism, to gauge the emotional temperature, to increase the suspense and the drama of a scene. Sometimes then the machine by hand is replaced by the carriage, the diegetic music becomes extradiegetica, the sound is batting, the assembly becomes more expressive.
http://www.bolerofilm.it/materiale/pressbook/la-ragazza-del-mondo-pressbook.pdf
