Yup, great movie.
But if i had to decide. i'd say a movie like equilibrium was more like the JW situation (or then again, i just liked equilibrium's action scenes)
Posts by Dune
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25Movie: The Truman Show = Jehovahs Witnesses? Anyone seen this movie?
by Trojan inby now, i realize there are a couple of good movies that help to understand the situation a jw finds himself in, once he finds out the truth about "the truth".
like: the village, the island, stepford wifes.
i find that these movies help me to understand the situation of being trapped in a cult and the mixed emotions about finding out and the courage and strenght needed to leave.
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Inactive JW Terence Howard or staunch Catholic
by blondie inhttp://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/397175p-336667c.html
love's no 'hustle' to star
'hustle & flow' star terrence howard has asked dayanara torres, whose ex is marc anthony, to marry him.
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Dune
Thats kinda funny, we were talking about him today in one of my classes.
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Have you seen any of the JW's elders that DF'd or DA'd you and or now DF'd?
by booker-t init is funny but i love that old expression "karma is the best payback".
i happened to see one of those super arognant elders that was the judicial committee that put me on "private reproof" years ago when i was a "devout" jw and fell into unscriptual conduct.
they literally had me trembling back there in the back of the kh wondering if i was going to be disfellowshipped or put on public reproof.
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Dune
I remember an elder from the congregation i used to be in when i was little. Anyway, a couple of years after i left he was disfellowshipped for impregnating a sister during a shepherding call.
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HELP Please!!!
by RichieRich inok, so remember this guy: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104535/1.ashx ?.
brief overview... black college professor / lawyer, recently came in the truth... yadda yadda.. well, i worked with him out in service, and we were talking about mormanism, and he said that he knew mormanism was wrong because they once taught that black folks couldnt go to heaven, but then they magically changed and said they could.
so then i asked him how he felt about the society's old stance on black people.
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Dune
I feel bad, i Rode some mormons last year about how blacks will supposedly go to a lower ring of heaven. At least i ahve something to say the next time somone tells me the society was free from it.
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Where would you go?
by collegegirl21 inif you could go any place in the world and not worry about money, food, clothing, etc... where would you go?
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Dune
Tahiti or Fiji. Anywhere Hot and Beautiful. OOOO yeah... :-D
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How DARE he?! This is why I'm still Single!!!
by stillAwitness inwell, i was dating this guy and its been a long time since i have even been with anyone that i thought was worthwhile.
i've been focusing on other things and with everything else going on with trying to gain my independance i just have not wanted to get caught up.
anyways, how dare the guy i was seeing call the whole jw mind-cult issue "stupid" when i tried to explain to him why i am the way i am (awful social skills, the simple excitement from just being around a new scene, etc.
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Dune
I've often thought about this issue and my future.
Chances are whoever i end up with (if they arent an ex-witness, ex-cult member) wont understand just how much control this organization had our my lives.
BUT then again, its probably that this particular guy doesnt have the maturity to understand something as complex as this.
I'm pretty sure there are people out there who do understand what we went through and will be able to appreciate our need to vent. Just keep looking ;-).
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Serious Question: Spanking
by i am a good soul inive never been punished like that i my home.
my family always talked to me and we would decide a non-physical punishment.
i was wandering, is still common for jw family to spank their children and if so, does the spanking continue into their late teens, even adults.
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Dune
Depends.
My family came from a carribean background, so the children received WHOOPINGS and this carried over to the congregations where the familys were made up of foreign witnesses.
Anyway, i stopped being "spanked" when i turned 12, thats when i lost TV priviledges and such.
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When were the Watchtower's best moments?
by JH inare they in their best moments right now, since they never had as many witnesses as now worldwide, or were their best days somewhere in 1950's or 60's or 70's before deception set it.
did the watchtower ever have any credibility somewhere in time?
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Dune
I think that the best moments were when the WTBS started gaining members again in the early 80's (but then that was stopped with the release of crisis of conscience)
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What Would It Take For Your JW Family/Friend To Get Out?
by minimus inis there anything that might get your witness relative or friend out of the "truth"??
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Dune
Thursday night, my brother told me that if our adoptive mother died, he'd leave.
We in no way want her to die, but right now, she's the main reason we wont leave.
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Choose/post your favorite TOWER ~ Warning: Idolatrous images ahead!
by unclebruce inbriget has kindly invited us to have a tarot reading.
if you haven't had it done already, agnostic, atheist or ardant christian i highly recomend you do.
imagine my dismay on finding myself to be afflicted with living under the influence of the dreaded tower card!
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