Posts by recoveringjw

Spoilers? Well, how could there be? For anybody who knows the story of Jesus, it should be like watching Titanic---the ship sinks, get over it. Right? But I want to talk about something very specific in the movie.

It was a good movie, I thought. No matter what a person believes, what happened to him was horrible and cruel. But, in that movie, why did they have to make him fall down so many times in slow motion when he was carrying the cross? And why does it seem that when he is carrying the cross, all the women seem to get it and know who he is and that he is special, but the men seem clueless? But, I digress.

For people who have seen the movie, they will probably recall a creature in a black hood who hangs out a lot around Jesus. No one sees him. He seems evil to me. I assumed that the character was supposed to be Satan. But what if it wasn't? At the end of the movie, it shows the hooded character acting rather grief stricken when Jesus is dead. If it was Satan, why was he so sad? Or do I have this all wrong?

So, this is the dialogue I had with my spouse after the movie

Me: "Why did that hooded bald guy look so sad,if it was Satan?"

Spouse: "What if it wasn't Satan, what if it was God?"

Me: "If that is the case, why did they make God so ugly and evil looking?"

Spouse "Well, the bible says that man was made in God's image. Man can be pretty ugly. And all the men in that movie were pretty hideous"

Me: "Yeah, but nobody is supposed to see God".

Spouse: "Nobody in the movie saw the hooded creature."

Me: "Oh"

I am not trying to make light of the movie, I liked it. It was moving and powerful, but sometimes I can't help the way my mind works......

Did anyone else who saw the movie make this weird leap or am I all alone in this?

Bethany

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Moving on up

by recoveringjw in

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i really don't know why this seems important to me, or why it would seem important to anyone else, but i am not a newbie anymore!!!

yay!.

i also have a slight addiction to this place, lurking around here and reading everything!

recoveringjw

Thanks! And Margie, Welcome!

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Moving on up

by recoveringjw in

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i really don't know why this seems important to me, or why it would seem important to anyone else, but i am not a newbie anymore!!!

yay!.

i also have a slight addiction to this place, lurking around here and reading everything!

recoveringjw

I really don't know why this seems important to me, or why it would seem important to anyone else, but I am NOT A NEWBIE anymore!!! Yay!

I also have a slight addiction to this place, lurking around here and reading everything!

Bethany

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Not for those of a nervous Dispostion?

by The rock in

click here: once smitten by watchtowerlove, twice shy-stered

recoveringjw

There are SO many depictions of the destruction of these famous buildings, I think the WTBTS should be worried about being targeted by the government as a possible terrorist threat.

B

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How do you handle JWs interacting with your children?

by Nosferatu in

this has been on my mind lately.

i'll probably end up having kids in the near future, and i would not want my mother preaching to my children.. so, i must ask, how do you handle your jw relatives who try to preach to your children?

how do you deal with a "gift" like my book of bs?

recoveringjw

My parents are still JW's. My sister's kids are old enough now that they understand the concept of people having their own beliefs. My parents take the girls to meetings when they are visiting, but have a sort of truce with my sister not to try to sway their beliefs. One of my nieces, the 8 year old, decided a few years ago that she didn't believe in God. Both of them are very independent and know that they have the right to choose their own system of beliefs.

My $.02

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Holidays and kids once you are out of the Org

by Iforget in

my son was born after i faded.

his dad and i always have had christmas (father never was jw).

we celebrate his birthday and we do easter.

recoveringjw

I don't have kids, but I have two nieces that I am very close to. When my sister and I left the organization, we started celebrating b-days, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But, we do it for mostly the same reasons you mention---to be with family. We don't ever focus on the presents----that is not what it is about. Actually, we usually help the girls make things for everyone, so that they know that what they are giving and getting is special.

My husband LOVES Christmas and we (my family) have sort of stopped calling it Christmas because we aren't Christian. We have just changed it to celebrating Winter and ourselves. :)

X--yeah, an unexpected gift is usually the best kind. In the real world though, people can't always get together on the spur of the moment. I doubt very much that the only time Iforget gives her son gifts is a b-day or Christmas.

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Are Women The More Natural Carers?

by Englishman in

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well, i've checked out on the whole sociological conditioning thing.

about how boys play with model cars and guns because they are expected to do so.

about how girls like to play with dolls and dress up only because that is how their mothers have conditioned them to behave in that way.

recoveringjw

Hope you are recovering well.

The stereotype does tend to be that women are "naturally" more caring. But, I don't know. My husband is sometimes way more thoughtful than me. Also, when my Mother-in-law had surgery to remove a brain tumor, her main nurse was male. He was wonderful. Caring, intuitive, he made my MIL feel like she was his sole patient. Good question though.

Bethany

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What is the youngest age you've seen someone df'd or Da'd?

by avishai in

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recoveringjw

16

They didn't catch me and DF me until I was 19.

It pretty much sickens me think about a CHILD of 10,12,13 being disassociated or disfellowshipped---for whatever reason. With rare exceptions, people don't even know who they are at those ages, they are still growing, learning, testing limits.....right? Am I totally naive to think that kids those ages still have some specks of innocence?

Bethany