I just saw Phantom Thread. I'd give it 10/10.
Excellent actkng. I not sure if it's entirely intentional, but I understand the film as a comment on contemporary anxiety about gender roles and excellently executed. Some will find the plot twist unsatisfying, but I tend to understand it metaphorically in relation to the theme. Plus it's got some very funny scenes.
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
here you go slimboyfat:where does the church of scotland stand?https://we.tl/fjix20cose.
credit goes to jaydee for this one.atlantis!.
Thank you Atlantis/Petra/Jaydee this is excellent beyond description!
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"?
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.
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.
No I've got various copies of Adventist World and Messenger and both tend to have authors names against articles.
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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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.
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.
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.
anopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering
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?
what can one person do to save as many people as possible from this organisation?.
youtube videos?.
mail shots?.
jwfacts probably
Until I develop my own website of course: jwinterpretations
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 ?.
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.
