maybe it's time for a less serious thread .
i have just finished watching dirty dancing ( again ) .
what is your feel good movie , the one that makes you smile and cry happy tears ?
I share many of the same mentioned.
Casablanca
Harvey - I'm crazy about these two movies.
Arthur (original)
French Kiss
To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Fried Green Tomatoes, Forest Gump
Enchanted April
You've Got Mail/Sleepless in Seattle/When Harry Met Salley
Doris Day movies - Pillow Talk, That Touch of Mink, The Thrill of it All - There...I said it!
thank you to everyone who made it out to the beach yesterday.
it was a fantastic event.
by my count, there were about 60 people.
Wow! So sorry I missed it. Something unexpectedly came up. Dammit.
Nice turnout! Thank you for putting this together.
for me, i have only purchased just one powerball ticket in my life, that was few years ago and i am thinking about buying some more in the near future.
maybe i should push my luck even more this time.
i am going to buy 10 tickets.
Oh James ^^^ The odds are so big of that happening...it could have been life changing for her.
I play a little. I'm in the office pool when the numbers are high. I also found out years later that when I was a JW and didn't join in the office lottery, someone put in for me anyway because they didn't want me to be left out. There you go.
My family buys scratchers, and if I'm with them I'll get a few.
anyone watching the path on hulu?
it's a bit extreme but a few similarities in dealing with the struggle of having doubt in possibly splitting up the family.
ones in blindly following..
Yes I've been watching. Those cult buzz words ring loud and clear.
This week was especially moving when Hawk at 16 is told my his mom he will never see his family again. It's a scenario played loud and proud by the WT. Makes me ill.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/19/child-sex-abuse-police-expect-30000-goddard-inquiry-cases.
police expect 30,000 new child abuse reports from goddard inquiry .
sandra laville.
^^^^Excellent!
(I really hate them today for some reason...)
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/19/child-sex-abuse-police-expect-30000-goddard-inquiry-cases.
police expect 30,000 new child abuse reports from goddard inquiry .
sandra laville.
Holy Macanoli!
And until this is sorted, and the corporation commits to changing their policy regarding victims, they should lose their status with the Charity Commission. IMHO. One can dream...
this grandmother found the best way to advertise jw.org by wearing a huge lapel pin.. .
some of the comments are really interesting.. link to article:.
http://www.phillyvoice.com/obama-award-medal-valor-family-slain-philadelphia-police-officer-robert-wilson-iii-monday/.
Sorry, I bet the grandma is saying "Phew!" he's asleep in death NOW. She will see him fo sho in the resurrection and he won't have to be destroyed.
That's real the truth.
If anyone really knew that was the sentiment of ALL JW's, they would be appalled...just like we are now.
how is everybody doing?.
it's been 8 months since i've been here.. so many newbies!.
lol.. sylvia.
Hi snowbird! Lovely to see you!
i had a couple of jw sisters call at my door today.. they started with the bizarre "can we read you a scripture" and read about "death being no more" and asked what i thought of that.. i said it sounded like a mix of disney and dumb.. they then launched into how god was going to put an end to death and wasn't that wonderful?.
i said it would have been more wonderful if he'd not created death in the first place.. they thought man created death by disobeying so i questioned why god couldn't have just forgiven them.
apparently "because he loves us" is supposed to be a satisfactory answer to why he kills us.. i asked how loving it was to kill hundreds of thousands of children in tsunami's, disease and so on.. at this point, they gave up on the 'god is love' and switched to the bible being true no matter what because it was an old book and moses had written the first chapter (says the book).. when i suggested it really wasn't that old and that most of the bible myths were copies of older stories from before it was written they questioned if i studied the bible and theology.. then i told them i was brought up as a jw so knew it was all crap.. now it was game on, they immediately switched to play defence questioning why i'd left (and i think they'd already taken a step back away from "the evil" obviously emanating from me).. not much time to say much before they cut and run so i told them i'd left because i found out it was all based on lies and that the watchtower was corrupt and covered up things like child abuse.. oh no, you're thinking of the catholics one of them said (some disdain in how she said "catholics" as though "we're so much better than them").. "well, i challenge you to do a search for the australian royal commission and you'll see the testimony the watchtower leaders gave and the damning evidence that they covered up abuse and reported none of it to the police.".
...and it's our duty to warn non-jws, or half awake jws about these events, as they start appearing in newspapers throughout the us, and abroad.
it almost comes out as a promotional ad for the jw convention.
the 'current events' editing staff of this paper likely has no idea what their promoting.
So it begins. The convergence of the JW's for the summer. I noticed she said 14 weekends, but I thought it was 13 weekends for the longest time. I could be wrong. I wonder if they shifted around some districts.
