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  darkest hour

  by zeb in

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  the film darkest hour.. recommended watching..

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  slimboyfat

  I agree it was a good film.

  How I rated films I've watched so far this year:

  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 9/10

  Very funny, good characters

  Darkest Hour 8/10

  Focuses on key part Churchill played in fighting on, two marks off for cringeworthy inaccurate underground scene

  Last Flag Flying 8/10

  Funny film, well acted, especially Cranston, slightly anti-war but but not enough for my taste

  The Post 2/10

  Boring attempt to cover contemporary issues of free speech and feminism through historical lens

  Loveless 10/10

  Best film so far, very bleak, set in Russia, beautiful images and some darkly funny scenes

  The Shape of Water 7/10

  Okay sort of fantasy/love story, well done if you like that

  Phantom Thread - not seen yet
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  Slimboyfat-Where Does the Church of Scotland Stand?

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here you go slimboyfat:where does the church of scotland stand?https://we.tl/fjix20cose.

  credit goes to jaydee for this one.atlantis!.

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  slimboyfat

  Thank you Atlantis/Petra/Jaydee this is excellent beyond description!
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  Jehovah's Witness Books in Guinness Book of World Records

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. beliefs

  http://ed5015.tripod.com/jwbookscirculation.htm.

  new light.

  predicting world events--yet--containing not even 1 successfully completed prophecy.how is any of it "food"?

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  slimboyfat

  I don't know how accurate this list is. It doesn't mention the New International Version, for example, which I think is the most common Bible after the King James. More common than the Good News Bible which is listed. Plus the list is obviously dated as it shows only 100 million copies of the NWT, whereas the latest figure is over 200 million. No mention of Lord of the Rings or Catcher in the Rye either, which should be near the top of any such list.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  slimboyfat

  No I've got various copies of Adventist World and Messenger and both tend to have authors names against articles.
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  Goodbye Jehova

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  just wondered if there might be an english translation of this book.

  just read on jwsurvey how watchtower has brought legal action against the publishing company.. sounds like it has touched a raw nerve at watchtower.

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  slimboyfat

  Not yet, but there surely will be, after all this publicity.

  It looks a bit strident for my taste (Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave - style) just looking at the table of contents.
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  When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.

  i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.

  his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.

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  The sole exception after 1942, as far as I'm aware, being the booklet "Defending and Lagally Establishing the Good News" in 1950 which bears the Watchtower imprint and names Covington as author.

  Some have suggested that Knorr made the books anonymous because he didn't write them and didn't want to give others prominence. It's also been suggested that Knorr disliked Convington in particular for the prominence that resulted from his legal work for JWs.
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  2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders

  by Room 215 in

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  2. friends

  anopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering

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  Unrealistic doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’s shocking that this is not the fleeting fancy of a deranged mind, but the product of sustained and coordinated effort of many people over a period of time. Did no one at any stage question or try to steer away from the madness?
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  What’s the most effective way to wake the largest amount of JW’s up?

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  what can one person do to save as many people as possible from this organisation?.

  youtube videos?.

  mail shots?.

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  slimboyfat

  jwfacts probably

  Until I develop my own website of course: jwinterpretations
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  Why do (did) the majority of the general population see the JWS is a decisive fraud ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws /ibsa have been going door to door now for over 100 years in many lands and countries, with numerous pieces of supporting literature counting in the millions.. you would think after all of the publicizing that the jws faith would have grown leaps and bounds but to date the jws has only 8 million following adherents.. other christian based faiths have grown vastly more but never publicly proselytized their faith to the extent the jws have... my basic concise guess is that they see this organization as a bit of commercialized fraud, orchestrated by a religious publishing house namely the watchtower corporation, trying to get people to purchase and read the wts's literature.. and yes the wts did place a set price on its literature including yearly subscriptions.

  was it just too obvious ?.

  did the wts not think that many people who they called on were from even bigger and older established christian faiths but didn't say or preach what the wts was preaching in their apparent version of the gospel ?.

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  Are the only two options 1) join JWs or 2) see JWs as a decisive fraud? Looks like a false dichotomy to me, since there are a variety of responses to JWs including joining, sympathising, disagreeing, apathy, indifference, opposing, undecided.
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  Do you know any good novel about faith crisis?

  by paradiseseeker in

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  i'm looking for something to read.

  i'm interested in ecclesiastical settings like churches and gothic cities.

  but the most important thing i look for is the inner thoughts and evolution of the main character: his/her feelings of guilt, regular visits to the confessor, self-comfort drawn from faith, praying god/saints, relapses and self-loathing as well as his/her process of "waking up".. i know it's something very particular and there's a lot of junk literature about the topic with poor writing and archetype characters, but if you have read anything of good quality, i would be very glad to know.. thank you in advance..

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  slimboyfat

  I started reading this book yesterday:

  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Testament-Gideon-Mack-James-Robertson/dp/014102335X

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview15