as a contractor i travel around for my job, i was stopped this morning to buy some milk at a store in a small village i guess and as i turned a corner i saw 2 elders i know personally manning a cart in the cold outside the store with not a soul in sight and an unlikely place for much traffic even though it was outside a country store.
1 elder is my brother in laws father and the other was in my old cong when i left, i said hello, talked about the weather and general chit chat and was my usual self, they were pleasant also but nothing was mentioned to me about anything spiritual etc.
i know they will be aware of some of my reasons for leaving (the few that i talked about initially before shutting my trap) but they were unwilling to engage in saving my life with their work!
I contained myself and decided it wasn't Christ-like
I don't know . . . In the gospels Jesus went out of his way many times to piss off the Pharisees and those like them. He put them in many an uncomfortable situation, often in front of crowds. I say go for it, within reason 😋
this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
This is something most can only dream of, but when it happens its wonderful. I'm so happy for you and him!
how often have we heard some sort of sensationalist urban legend as jws?.
here is an example i was told as a kid:.
the experience of a sister who knocked on a door and was greeted by a big fierce looking man- intimidating and mean.
I too heard the one about the sister protected by invisible Angels out in service. I also heard the one about John Denver telling all JWs to get out of his concert. Both of these have been specifically debunked by snopes.com
I also heard one about a demonic toy that made a kid's clothes get up and walk around by themselves.
Then there was an apostate dressed as a clown who went in during the public talk to scream in the speakers face. He opened his mouth, but no sound would come out.
Then there was the pioneer who swears that the dog coming at her was held back by an invisible force. Guess she never heard of an electric fence.
yeah i saw ep 8 tlj yesterday.. first off, the special effects - a combination of cgi and practical - are fantastic, although with a budget of $200 million i expect them to be.. there are many issues i have with this movie and here's one: leia flying through space, i mean, wtf?!.
yes, we know leia is luke's brother and so has some force-sensitivity - she talked telepathically to luke in the empire strikes back.. apart from that, she's never really used any abilities she may have or been taught the ways of the force ... and now she's flying through space!
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Don’t confuse a “plot hole” with a “twist”.
Wikipedia defines a plot hole as "illogical or impossible events, and statements or events that contradict earlier events in the storyline", so I'd advise you not to confuse plot holes with a story direction you personally don't prefer.
Does Luke drinking milk from the ball sack tits of some alien sea cow add to the “meat” of the movie?
No of course not. That was humor, and tastes will vary. Personally I found Yoda's behavior in Empire Strikes Back far more cringe worthy, even when it was explained away as 'testing' Luke.
As for twists, I had in mind things like Kylo betraying Snoke even while he was reading his mind which was clever, the mind bridging being a ploy of Snoke all along, the fact that even though Kylo liked Rey he wasn't going to turn good, he just wanted more power for himself, the way Luke went out at the end being far more meaningful than a stereotypical lightsaber fight, and things like that. I also liked how Snoke told Kylo to 'take that ridiculous thing off' (his helmet) and called him a child in a mask. I took that as a well deserved dig at Abrahm's The Force Awakens, who was trying to make Kylo a bad ass Vader knock off. Episode VII deserved to be subverted and Episode VIII did it, and well IMO.
yeah i saw ep 8 tlj yesterday.. first off, the special effects - a combination of cgi and practical - are fantastic, although with a budget of $200 million i expect them to be.. there are many issues i have with this movie and here's one: leia flying through space, i mean, wtf?!.
yes, we know leia is luke's brother and so has some force-sensitivity - she talked telepathically to luke in the empire strikes back.. apart from that, she's never really used any abilities she may have or been taught the ways of the force ... and now she's flying through space!
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Disney debunked that rumor about stand alones being put on hold the other day.
Force Awakens, while fun, was a big disappointment for me: to derivative and leaning on '80s nostalgia like everything else is today. TLJ, while having g some fluff that could've been discarded, had more meat on it's bones and original twist, definitely closer to what a Lucas production would've been. Loved Rogue One, thought it was amazing. Solo wasn't a masterpiece or essential, but it was a very good, solid film. And BTW, Return of the Jedi is my favorite of the originals 😁
i think it’s ridiculous to kick people and families out of a restaurant because of politics.
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I think it's ridiculous to kick people out of a country because of their religion or where they've been born.
Come on now, you know full well that isn't the reason. There are many immigrants, I know some personally, that work hard and do everything by the book. The ones I know are even more responsible and contribute to society more than some that were born in America. In that case, nobody cares about their religion and where they were born. The problem comes with illegals who purposely try to play the system, contribute little, leech much, and often add to crime. In the words of many a circuit assembly chairman, 'We have a deficit'.
i cant spot one to save my life, so i wanted to now if any one could me figure out how..
Stan, that's the best one yet 👍 It can easily be explained as an accident.
the fellow PIMO should reply back with "Tight Pants Tony" or some other expression only those awakened would know.
A regular pioneer in my hall used that phrase "tight pants Tony" jokingly, and on another occasion she used the phrase "don't drink the Kool aid". And I'm pretty sure she's all in.
i would like to think there was some good that resulted from our being a witness at one time..
Doubting Bro:
Allowed me to realize that there is no true religion. I was already convinced that every other religion was false and beyond redemption. So when I applied their lens to my own religion, I saw they were no different!
Exactly, agree with every word. That's a two edged sword the WTS has to accept. If they want to teach us to think critically of and rip apart other Faith's, is it any wonder that eventually some of us will stop and do the same to our own belief system? Once you see something it can't be unseen.
i love gospel music.
i don't feel like i need to believe in "jebus" to appreciate the music.
i can't go into a gospel church because i might just get religion again - that or i'll be grabbing the mic on be on the stage waving my hands and praising the lord.. i particularly like dylan's gospel period.
Happy 1,000th topic BTW Simon
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can anyone identify this ring?
(ideally, a link to a page on the internet with photo and description).
Fay Dehr:
So I guess this is a video not intended for JW Broadcasting then?
