don't post much lately, but wondering what folks are watching.
i'm enjoying the heck out of "penny dreadful", "outlander", and "grace and frankie".
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Game of Thrones and Walking Dead are the only must see TV for me.
I have checked out Grace and Frankie on Netflix, but only because my wife likes it. Not my cup of tea, but the writing and acting are good.
I enjoyed the first couple of seasons of House of Cards, but I kind of lost interest partway through season 3.
what a shock to hear that news.
her passing so close to that of her daughter dying ?
so, so, sad.. sorry glenster i thought she deserved a thread of her own also..
Also may of these stars abused their bodies, and that doesn't help.
Carrie Fisher did so many drugs in the 70's that even John Belushi told her to slow down. That's saying something.
such a sad loss.
she battled bipolar disorder and came back to acting.
then we lost her.
Sad news. I heard she was in stable condition after her heart attack. Must have taken a turn for the worst.
The Star Wars movies were such an integral part of my childhood. Such a loss.
if jws want to inflict shunning on members who want to remain -- knock yourselves out.
but if someone wants to leave - dont believe in an evil almighty god, bible ...or just dont agree with the rules- they should be free to leave- even after being 'disfellowshipped'.
i think it was pre 1980 that you could disassociate yourself without shunning repercussions.
What if you want to shun someone because they're an asshole?
I agree that the WT's shunning policy is inhumane, but there's a lot of grey area when you're talking about the government getting involved.
aren't there christian denominations who do not make false end of the world predictions but who nevertheless believe that the world will eventually end and paradise (whether in heaven or on earth) will come?.
it seems the watchtower was just jumping the gun when they made false end of the world predictions but they are nevertheless the right: the world will eventually end and paradise will come..
Humanity ceasing to exist is a far more likely scenario than a paradise earth.
chili's remove cedar hill manager who took away man's free veterans day meal.
because he was black.
elderly white gentleman told the black veteran, "black did not serve in germany' and he told the manager the guy(black veteran) is not a veteran.
First of all, blacks did serve in WWII. Have neither of these men heard of the Tuskegee airmen? Secondly, is being a veteran confined solely to having fought the Germans in WWII?
This was ignorant on so many levels.
below is an example of the pure cliche driven and meaningless posts by witnesses to witnesses on facebook .
it was truly a blessing from jehovah that your original plans .....didn't work out, because instead our family was able to enjoy a spiritually filled morning with ,spiritual food and spiritual entertainment and singing praises to our glorious god, grand creator and loving heavenly father jehovah was a memorable gift.
he has truly provided a perfect example of christian brotherly love through his son, our savior jesus christ.
Even when I was a Jobo, gushing nonsense like this didn't sit well with me. It all seemed a bit brown nosing and forced.
Kind of like all the comments after each assembly and convention about how 'wonderful' and 'upbuilding' it was.
i'm sure many people, republicans included, are shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election.
really, wtf!.
the polls were wrong and although it's tempting to blame voter suppression and fbi interference, that would just avoid looking at the real issues for the loss.
Running a biased primary system and choosing someone so obviously flawed as a candidate was a huge mistake
I agree wholeheartedly. All they did was play right into Trump's hands. Screwing Bernie over the way they did only gave credence to the notion that the system was corrupt, and required an outsider such as Trump to fix it. To say nothing of the fact that it alienated a lot of Bernie's supporters, and caused them to vote for someone other than her.
why were we ever a jw?
were we mad?
we must have been .... well, my excuse is that i knew nothing else.
I was a born-in myself. Of course, that doesn't excuse the many years I stayed in even when I no longer believed it was "the truth".
all parents want their children to grow up, mature, and become happily independent.
no normal father or parent would ever want to govern and rule over their children forever.. so if jehovah exists and he is a heavenly 'father' to his human progeny, and if we truly are in his image as his children, then humankind was always destined to govern itself.
if you believe in the biblical narrative, jehovah always intended to let go of his human children and let us rule ourselves when we were ready.
Nothing in the "biblical narrative" about god suggests a tolerant, live and let live attitude toward his subjects. The god of the Bible is a megalomaniacal control freak who uses fear to rule over them.
