it occurred to me the other day that i don't actually know all that much about the bible.
dont get me wrong, i was a very dedicated and studious jehovah's witness and i studied the bible every day - or so i thought.
i have now realised that during the time i spent in that religion i didn't study the bible - i studied jehovah's witness theology.
I recommend this series of Yale University lectures on the Hebrew bible. Watching them is a good way to understand the bible in a more detached way outside the JW indoctrination:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdMUujXfyWi
Lecture 19 covers Jeremiah I believe.
i seems that the child abuse enquiry in the uk has hit the wall again.
its a great pity.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/04/child-sex-abuse-victims-say-inquiry-has-descended-into-farce-as/.
A new person was appointed yesterday to chair the abuse enquiry. Her name is Alexis Jay, a social worker who has chaired an inquiry into child abuse before and has been a part of this inquiry from the beginning so she should be able to hit the ground running. There was talk after Goddard resigned that some of the aspects of the inquiry might be dropped but as far as I can tell it is all to carry on as before.
just take a look at this video.
i think arguing or debating scriptures is the most pointless thing ever.
everything at their meetings are so basic with no explanation.
my thoughts:
1) doing first call using a video is just ridiculous. why can't they just talk?
2) trying to find scriptures in the bible on a tablet just doesn't work well unless they are the pre-selected verses that you happen to have memorized. This video illustrates the problem pretty well.
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.
not clear at this stage why she resigned but it has come the same day as this article in telegraph criticizing how much time she was spending in new zealand on other work and holiday. maybe its related. Or perhaps 10 years working away from home was too much, who knows. I liked the look of her, I had the impression she would have done a good job.
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.
disappointing news. goddard quits. hope it doesn't take too much time for someone new to be appointed
hello all,i have just signed up to do a comedy course.
it starts in september.in order to get a headstart, i did my first 5 minutes tonight about jws.i explained that i celebrated my first birthday last week.
bemusement and a tittle.explained that if you could choose between hare krishnas and people standing at a trolley/cart as a religion who would you choose?got a laugh.explained that the whole world will be destroyed if you do not listen to our message, yet we are not prepared to initiate a conversation at a trolley.big laugh.
Have you checked out Deborah Frances-White. She used to be a jw and is a stand up. If you haven't heard her check out the audio here called 'cult following' : http://www.deborahfrances-white.com/rollsthedice.html
she also appeared as a guest on a very long jwpodcast episode explaining how she got into comedy etc here:
thousands of years old.
this makes my blood boil.. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/jehovahs-witnesses-destroy-ancient-indigenous-temple-in-mexico-20160628-0009.html.
...is an epic triumph is emotional manipulation.
bringing together all of the stories they told thus far and placing them int he "new world" complete with the little boy who was killed in a car accident coming back from the dead.. i have a good friend who is stuck in with family and plays the role.
he said everyone was crying, and the people next to him rated the videos by how many tissues they needed to dry their eyes.
Music is powerful. The reason I always break down in tears at 'Gladiator' when the woman says 'Who will carry him', almost against my will, is because the music comes in at that moment with its sad refrain and there i am balling again.
It is no wonder they chose to use work from movie composers, it is a very deliberate attempt to overcome and control viewers emotions. They might as well have written in the transcript 'Cry Here' like they would 'Applause' because its inevitable and witnesses will have little choice in the matter. That wouldn't have worked with 'House to house' playing in the background.
I was trying to think of a scenario where you could pretend to recognise the music and say 'Oh i know this track, its on the latest Audiomachine album, they did the soundtrack for a game I like called 'Call of Duty Advanced Warfare' lol. But the only legitimate time to hear the music would be at the actual assembly.
in an effort to reduce the number of posts, this year i will try to add links to this post.
now, on with the leaks & releases!
first up.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nzvwhflss4.
this one has no dialogue so language doesnt matter.
gotta say, i just saw this video set after Armageddon and even i feel emotional and i haven't been a witness in 18 years. I believe it is the last video played on Sunday afternoon and shows all the people from previous videos, some of whom got disfellowshipped and came back, some who died, some who gave up on their lives to serve etc. I can imagine their will be some serious lumps in throats after it ends and a spring in the step as they go home. https://youtu.be/OuuCh06wQ58e set
the wtbts has to know they aren't actually going to see their numbers significantly jump anytime soon/ever right?
are they planning on cutting the rbc down to 1/10th the work force so they can actually slow down their kh projects instead of increasing them?
or do they think their little website scheme is actually going to bring in more people?.
could it be a way to make money by using the free volunteer labour to build, incentivise the jws to donate all the while making them excited at the prospect of progress and then sell them for profit a little while later? Don't know why the'd be cutting down workforce tho.
just noticed this is a year old thread lol
