My personal favorites include:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moulin Rouge
Pete's Dragon (the 1977 original, not the 2016 remake)
The Wiz
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
some that come to mind for me.. seven brides for seven brothers.
brigadoon.
carmen.
My personal favorites include:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moulin Rouge
Pete's Dragon (the 1977 original, not the 2016 remake)
The Wiz
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
i always wondered that while i was in especially when i was an elder.
i recognize that some people,elders included are brain-dead.
but do you think that the average older today knows it's all nonsense?
"Some thought they were worshiping Jehovah Jesus."
Why did you put it like that? JWs don't worship Jesus.
i just found out yesterday that my son who is less than a year out of treatment for leukemia has adhd caused by the chemo that saved his life.
does anyone here have any experience with this?
primarily looking for books or resources that helped you or your loved ones..
i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
Uh, the ten commandments? ALL Christians follow them. Or claim to follow them.
my parents had a story that the first time my dad ever met my mom's father, he opened the door and immediately asked dad, "what are you gonna do if my grandson needs a blood transfusion?!".
grampa was a ww2 vet, an airplane mechanic, a methodist and freemason.
he and my grandmother were pictured all my life as these ogres who opposed my mother's jw conversion and her marriage to my father.
Son? Are you opposed to having a daughter? Why do men only want sons and never daughters?
the reality that all of us ultimately must face is that we get older and our bodies, and our minds eventually fail us.
i have seen this first hand in my family, in the jw community, and in the ex-jw community.
it is simply a sad part of the human condition, as is physical, emotional, and mental illness.
The anointed one I know assured me recently that I would never grow old. I'm currently 36, and given that she considers herself old at 60-ish, the new system will apparently be here in less than a quarter of a decade. You have no idea how badly I wanted to tell her about the countless others who were told the same or believed in it themselves, only to grow old and die. Many of them have been dead for decades now. Surely she was told as a kid that she would never grow old, much less graduate from high school. Honestly, how do these people willfully forget their own youth?
The few times I've mentioned how people in the past who were certain that the end was "right around the corner" turned out to be wrong, she dismisses it with the argument that the signs of the times are just so much more obvious now, how can we deny it? That and the old "this system can't possibly last much longer because..." BS.
so being someone who is not, however still believes around 70% of what the jw's talk about as far as the bible goes, ignoring the fact of no blood transfusions, shunning, etc.
wt doctrines, i got this question.
anybody really know how faithful 'worldly' (i use this term lightly 😉) women are these days?
You may as well ask how faithful humans are these days. Posing such a gender-specific question is no different than asking how faithful Hispanics are or how faithful people living in the state of Iowa are or how faithful redheads are. You are assuming that a group of people identified by a single trait are somehow different from the rest of humanity.
with these new disasters going on around the world, i would imagine that the jw's are going ape shit with the thought of death and destruction right around the corner.
i was smart enough to leave this cult after 1975 came and went with a whimper.
i was in my teens at the time and i vividly remember to this day the excitement all the witlesses had with the knowledge that '75 was going to be the year of armageddon!!!
Wow, six years and not one single comment?
it probably will never happen but... imagine the gb recieved some new light that told them the great tribulation was imminent.
the world is going to hell and all jws can expect until armageddon is terrible persecution the likes of which no christian has ever experienced in two thousand years.
but jehovah has a solution: put yourself and your family 'to sleep' and after armageddon's over, jehovah will 'wake his people up' at the resurrection.
i sometimes did work for a lovely old couple who at times needed repairs done around their home.
my wife and myself spent time with them, having tea and crackers from time to time.
one day the husband and myself got into a conversation and he clearly showed himself to be a holocaust denier.
Find a Holocaust survivor and introduce him. I've always wanted to see a denier in that kind of situation.