"links float-left" </form> "utility-bar clearfix" may 06, 2011 04:28 pm | trevor bacquelocal videographer ken thompson is in pre-production of his full-length legal drama based on explosive events from 15 years ago.. the film, a state of being, relays the story of a jehovahs witness family in olds that came into money.
upon their newfound wealth, the wife pushed for a divorce and accused her husband of bigamy and incest.
the rcmp was brought in to investigate the charges.. thompson said the story morphed from a religious to criminal matter before culminating in a legal dispute.. thompson extensively researched the subject prior to writing and said he often hit dead ends gathering a backstory.. he claims to have called the jehovahs witness head offices in brooklyn, new york, and was redirected to departments that didnt exist.. i did find it fascinating, but at the same time frustrating, he said of his research.
based on explosive events
Sounds good already! Please keep us updated closer to the time this film is released so as not to miss...
What I like is that more stories like this will eventually counterbalance the spin about "Jehovah's happy people" (tm) that keeps coming out of Headquarters.
since we have a lot of canadian friends on this board, i have to ask - who are your favorite canadian bands?.
mine is rush.
they have been one of my favorite bands ever since i can remember.. they totally rule........the music and lyrics are all top notch.. the other one is the tea party - jeff martin is a genius.
Another favourite of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNPhBoLh8A
And this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSfn-I3PqM
Lyrics:
Hail to the shaman and his cardboard drum and the riffraff
Dancing in the sun
I sing for thee
Praise to the ugly and the dispossessed and the genius born of
The vipers nest
You have set me free
Hey, you cranks and you clowns with your heads hanging down
I bring good tidings to you
For all the talent that he has jehovah don't play jazz like the devil do
See the rose sprung from the heap of dung
The shafthorse hot and heavy hung shamelessly
Check the star dust oozing in the mud on it pilgrimage to flesh and blood
Now aint that you and me
Hey, you shakespeares in rags little heretics and hags
To thine own self be true
Well, he may be beautiful and king but jehovah he don't swing like the devil
Birdman, birdman, what's the word, man
Into the night we go
Billie, billie, knock me silly
Sing to me soft and low
Save me from losing my soul to a heaven as cold as ice
Id sooner be a free man in hell than a prisoner in paradise
So I toot my toot for the man with roots
Hey, fifer on the e-flat flute play on, play on
All you sinners and you infidels you you artful madmen bound for hell
Come sing along
Come on, you potty-trained saints spouting isms and aints
Dig the poetry my man
Well all deference to his throne
Gabriel he don't play no saxophone like coltrane can
Now, save me from losing my soul to a heaven as cold as ice
Id sooner be a free man in hell than a prisoner in paradise
Id sooner catch fire than kill my desire
Hail to the shaman and his cardboard drum and the riffraff
Dancing in the sun
I sing for you
For all the talent he has jehovah don't play jazz like the devil do
Yeah, the devil do
Must admit he do
Ah, da devil do
Birdman, birdman, what's the word, man
Into the night we go
Billie, billie, knock me silly
Sing to me soft and low
Foll all the talent that he has jehovah don't play no jazz ....
these are good comments to consider enjoy!.
jehovah's witnesses who leave their religion, do so for many different reasons.
here are seven.. watchtower prophecies and dates for armageddon have failed repeatedly.
I read this somewhere a while ago and thought it spot on...
"People become Jehovah's Witnesses when they are taught 'Why God permits wickedness' (TM); they leave Jehovah's Witnesses when they find out God permits wickedness in the congregations."
found this elsewhere-.
recession .
the recession has hit everybody really hard... .
i think i had enough of my cousin!
i'm planning to cut him from my life.
this is a cousin who has complained to me the last 10 years about his wife,kids,work and troubles with his brother and father.
Geeze, this board is invaluable! (Exclamation point to induce positive emotions!!!)
Terry - great suggestion!
and The Silence -
if you can't be supportive when I need your support then this relationship is not going to work for me.
I really like that!
over a couple of years ago, i did a relatively quick fade, having dropped fs and then meetings cold turkey with the space of a few months.
sure there was a bit of harassment and stalking for a while but it soon petered out as my wish to be left alone became know among the locals.
admittedly i stretched things out a little bit longer by going to meetings and conventions when i visited family in their towns for about another year after but now i'm completely "clean" as it were.
I don't think we're even a blip on anyone's radar, even after attending the Memorial. Everybody saw us again, 3rd time (it's the only meeting we go to) and of course they asked if they'd see us again soon (Special talk on May 1). I said, sorry, we already have plans that day, and they'll see us same time next year, probably, Memorial only! Said it very convincingly and with a straight face. I think jdubs have a very difficult time seeing people who have 'left' - they are so awkward about it. Want to be encouraging, but want to show their disgust at your resurfacing for this one meeting all at the same time! So difficult to do, but they try anyway.
With our out-of-town family, we don't know where we stand. Were they ever family anyway? Although they are family in the physical sense, they have more or less looked down on us for their uber-righteous zealotry for as long as we can remember and we're glad to be free of it! We're not even sure they know we no longer attend. It's the elephant in the room. They don't broach the subject, neither do we, if and when we see them - weddings and funerals for the most part only. There's probably some rumours going 'round, but nothing that translates into genuine concern about our everlasting welfare. They just want to see our bums in the KH seats - not going to happen!
ok, here's my current list:.
i just finished the greatest show on earth by richard dawkins, and am almost finished crisis of conscience by...some guy.. currently in hand, i have:.
the power of myth, joseph campbell and bill moyers.
just finished Shattered Dreams - My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer - 400 pages but so unputdownable that I finished it in 2 days.
Unbelievable how these Mormon offshoots could find scriptures to support their polygamist lifestyle but what I found so amazing is how these people really truly believe they are doing God's will - totally brainwashed to not question how they've been indoctrinated - I figure any jdub who reads this will certainly see similarities that might cause them to question their own faith...fascinating reading!
http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Dreams-Life-Polygamists-Wife/dp/1599957191
i'm going to my parents for this long weekend, along with my boys, my aunt and her twin boys (same age as my oldest), and our pup.
will be a busy and bustling weekend, seeing as the basement recently flooded, so that area is now off-limits.
so for the next five days, the four and a half hour drive tomorrow is going to be the only quiet time i think i'm going to get, lol.. however, my mother is going to have a big pot of homemade chili waiting for us... and that alone would be worth the drive and the craziness :).
No special plans here beyond baking some paska.
OH MY!! that looks so good! mmmmmm RECIPE PLEEZE!!
maybe i just missed it, (the story of the word) - but i am seeing this word "happifying" in a lot of threads.. can it possibly be that the wt actually printed this??
?.
I am almost certain they did; would have been a few years ago though, when we would indeed be happified to hear such elating words nearer the 'pure language of truth'. Couldn't put my finger on it just now, but it's got to be in one of the publications...if it was easier to do a search, I'm sure someone could find it...Blondie??
got into a discussion with my mom after a sister (that lives down the street from me) went back and told her some things that i said.
after me and mom got done having a deep discussion on the phone, i asked my mom a simple questions: who writes the watchtowers?
i've been going to the hall since i was three, and i have yet to have this questions answered.
based on "need"... or the publishing cycle)... gives it to these young men (and women, yes)... and such ones pull the info from their files(ass?) and use to write the new article.
You know, it was only once I was out of the c u l t that I realized that these articles were on a regular rotational cycle - same sh*t, different month/year ...trotting out the usual Christmas, New Year, birthday, memorial, crime and violence, environment articles etc...slight tweakings to update the information in view of current world events but getting blander and blander by the year - really not saying a whole lot in paragraph after paragraph and citing scriptures ad nauseum with only the vaguest connection to the point made (sometimes very little connection, leaving you to scratch your head as to why that particular scripture was even cited). Not too many people would want to put their name on that kind of retrotting out of information, methinks.
If I remember correctly, the old Aw8ke! used to occasionally have articles about things in other countries where at least they said "by Aw8ke correspondent in (name of country here)". Even in that case, I don't think names were used, except if the article were a sort of memoir about an individual's life, in which case it was the individual himself who had written it. I guess they weren't worried about creature worship in that case?? Most of their reasonings eventually break down and, in this case, I don't understand why someone writing about their own life is allowed to use their name, but someone apparently sounding forth God's sacred pronouncements has to remain incognito. More doublespeak, as usual.
On occasion, I've had a chance to leaf through bound volumes from the 60s and 70s where there were actually meaty (in due season!) articles relating to matters of doctrine that you could tell had been researched in at least some depth to actually convey information. Those kinds of articles have gone the way of the dodo. I think the more they research, the more they are beginning to see that their whole raison d'etre is crumbling on all sides. Better not to claim ownership in case they ever get called on it; hide under cover of the corporation.
Just my 2c.
