about the only (uk) tv show i find worth watching is 'new tricks' - a drama series about three retired detectives re-employed to work on old cold-cases.
(it probably resonates with me because i am an old retired detective and can identify with each of the three in different ways).. .
i have just watched an episode with a jw twist and i can thoroughly recommend it.. .
About the only (UK) TV show I find worth watching is 'New Tricks' - a drama series about three retired detectives re-employed to work on old cold-cases. (It probably resonates with me because I am an old retired detective and can identify with each of the three in different ways).
I have just watched an episode with a JW twist and I can thoroughly recommend it.
I can't do links, but you need to go to Youtube, search 'n.t.e.38 part 1'. It's in six parts (total nearly an hour).
Hope you enjoy.
it was another thread that prompted me to start this one , not appropiate for the former thread.
and it`s because the wt often promotes that jehovah/jesus protects and looks after his loyal followers ,that when something adverse occurs , the suspicion/judgement is "oh they must have been doing something wrong that nobody knew about, but you cant hide it from jehovah."mentality.
i`m sure you have.. smiddy.
This is not a JW story, it was Plymouth Brethren (but the mindset is/was not so different).
About 50 years ago I was told by my grandmother of a woman who had died suddenly and quite young. Her arms dropped off because she was knitting on a Sunday.
True? No, of course not, but my grandmother believed it - or at least would not question it (she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer). My mother would probably not have believed it - IF she ever allowed herself to think about it rationally. Such is the power of indoctrination by fundamentalism/cults.
In the PB 'Gospel Hall' I attended/was dragged to as a very young child was a painted banner across the wall 'God is Love'. Well, the one preached there wasn't and the over-riding feeling was of a malevolent super-being who watched everything (a la Orwell's '1984' Big Brother) who was ready to strike with plague, afflictions or death without prior notice or without necessarily explaining which particular regulation might have been transgressed.
Back to the point of the thread - toe the line you survive and may get benefits (a space in a parking lot?!), break a rule you may have been unaware of and you get to suffer. JWs and other fundies are not so different in that way.
i've got pdf's of certain watchtower publications, but i need the hardcopies to back up my argument.
it's annoying when you show a witness the jw.org website, download the pdf of the watchtower study issue in front of them, and they argue that you have no point because apostates tampered with the file.
mind you, it's on a wt/ccjw server, so i don't fathom how any apostate can tamper with it.
Just popping in to say that initially I misread the 'Hardcopy' in the thread title as 'Hardcore' and was about to suggest some relevant sites.
Luckily, I realised my mistake in time. Apologies. Carry on. As you were.
No. I never was a dub, but I feel a need to challenge them as appropriate.
Sometimes when they call it's just not a good time. Sometimes, when they're obviously late-middle-aged sisters I just don't have the heart - their belief may be all they have to keep them going. Not my job to challenge their belief if they are happy with it.
For me, I tend to weigh uo the witnesses who call at my door. Some I just feel sorry for, smile, take the literature, and wish them well. Others, who are pushing their crap are fair game.
iirc, there were some pieces here (or links) to what life might actually be like after a catastrophic armageddon.
they read like the scripts of sci-fi post-apocalypse films.. .
bearing in mind that the whole basis of the jw religion is apocalyptic, do most/any dubs think of the practicalities beyond 'i'd like to live in that big house'?
IIRC, there were some pieces here (or links) to what life might ACTUALLY be like after a catastrophic Armageddon. They read like the scripts of sci-fi post-apocalypse films.
Bearing in mind that the whole basis of the JW religion is apocalyptic, do most/any dubs think of the practicalities beyond 'I'd like to live in that big house'? What about the cholera/dysentery from all those corpses?
once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.
he named each song after a person in our family.
this is the one he named heather.
Takes me back to living in Cyprus a year and a bit ago. Yes we had the sea, sun and bars and cold beer but it wasn't really paradise ...
One of our pastimes was karaeoke in the bars (sing a few to get the tourists in and it was worth a free beer). 'R & J' was one of my specials, along with 'Always On MY Mind' (Willie Nelson) and 'House of the Rising Sun'. Oh, and 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' would always get the SEA ladies in the audience a bit emotional ...
once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.
he named each song after a person in our family.
this is the one he named heather.
Thanks Tal
That concert includes one of the best love songs ever - 'Romeo and Juliette'. And some good slide guitar and pedal steel.
Cheers!
once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.
he named each song after a person in our family.
this is the one he named heather.
If you REALLY want a good listen, try this (sorry I can't do a link) - full concert:
i use usualusername as i am not creative enough to think of anything sexier.... .
what significance is there behind your profile name?.
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Mine is the name of a grumpy old bugger character in the (very) long-running UK BBC radio soap 'The Archers' ('an everyday story of country folk').
I'm not THAT old, nor that grumpy (usually).
put aside your religious or moral standards if you can for a moment and give me your viewpoint on this......... generally, the 'beautiful people' pair off with other 'beautiful people' in a sexual union for however long, and the average lookers meet other average lookers and so on down the line until you come to.......................those who don't appeal to the opposite sex due to appearance, injury, illness or mental capacity.. can, or should, these people be given access to those in the sex trade for 'relief' without cause for fear or stigmatising ?
or is it a case of "that's too bad" (meaning you're committing fornication and that cannot be sanctioned in any way)?.
have you ever needed to counsel a person (or their parents) on this ?
There is a great deal of rubbish talked about prostitution - money for sex - and many misconceptions.
Prostitution is entirely legal in the UK. What is not legal includes soliciting for prostitution, two or more prostitues operating in the same premises (a brothel) or someone other than the prostitute living off the prostitute's earnings.
Prostitution is illegal in Thailand (the country with a sex trade probably only second to the Philippines per capita). In Thailand prostitution is an ancient and not entirely dishonourable profession with an estimated 90% catering for indigenous Thai customers. In the Philippines a greater proportion of the trade is reckoned to be focussed on foreigners (US occupation/bases playing a large part in this).
It is extremely difficult to legislate against the exchange of money (or more properly, money's worth) for sex. The ramifications of this are almost endless.
Some people have no wish to enter into a relationship. They require satisfaction of a basic human need, and are prepared to pay for it. There are many other considerations and discussions to be had, such as the role of purely sexual versus more 'meaningful' relationships, but if one consenting adult is prepared to provide a legal service which the other consenting adult is prepared to pay for, what business is that of anyone else?
Thought for the day: Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a prostitute? A: There are some things a prostitute won't do for money.
