Posts by isojourn

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Wish PaulNotSaul wife a speedy recovery

by TotallyADD in

jw
friends

talk to paulnotsaul last night and found out his wife was in the hosptial.

it was very serious but she is going to be ok. this is our opportunity to wish her well.

get well soon mrs. paulnotsaul.

isojourn

Glad she will be okay, hoping Mrs. PaulNotSaul will recover quickly!

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Thank you note from Circuit Overseer

by RayPublisher in

notice how thankful we should be to "the slave"... he said that expression dozens of times in his recent visit, over and over and over ad nauseum.. .

can i barf now?.

isojourn

Truly we are living with a special knowledge that the end is near. READ: Truly the slave is happy that you are living in fear.

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How are things going since my exit?

by discreetslave in

jw
friends

today i got accepted to a christian university and we had an earthquake!!!

the college is located here in va and is the largest christian university in the us.

my husband is worried about the money but the fact that it's liberty u upsets him more.. otherwise things are good between us things are tense on meeting days.

Are there any songs that remind you of being a jw ?

by man in black in

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this afternoon the song music box dancer came on the radio and i was instantly transported back to 1978 when my best jw friend got married.. this was "their" song ,, they are now divorced and one of them left the religion and is remarried.. another song that makes my skin crawl from a jw standpoint is mambo # 5.. there was an elder from my old hall, j. renfroe who always was telling the young people what music was acceptable for them to listen to.. and this guy was just so opinionated regarding everything.. so one time at a wedding this song comes on and he starts dancing almost uncontrollably.

it was agony to watch, and i ( and many others felt embarrassed for him because of how he was dancing and how his self rightous opinions seemed to be thrown to the wind this evening.. any other examples of music that became tainted from a jw experience ?.

isojourn

Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

Lyrics:

Vial of hope and a vial of pain
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl singing

It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right

Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right
In the city you see only light

It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right

Oh god, well, look at you now!
Oh, you lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf
Oh god, I had to laugh!
Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
It was wrong but you said it was right
In the future I will read at night

In the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is true

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by isojourn in

if youre a michael bay fan and love movies with a lot of boom boom explosives, or if you dont have the attention span for foreign films and reading subtitles.

this may not be your favorite movie.. .

but if you were raised in the borg or have spent enough time in it, then you will surely relate to this film.

isojourn

I got click happy and completely forgot to add a Title topic to this thread. Sorry.

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untitled

by isojourn in

if youre a michael bay fan and love movies with a lot of boom boom explosives, or if you dont have the attention span for foreign films and reading subtitles.

this may not be your favorite movie.. .

but if you were raised in the borg or have spent enough time in it, then you will surely relate to this film.

isojourn

If you’re a Michael Bay fan and love movies with a lot of boom boom explosives, or if you don’t have the attention span for foreign films and reading subtitles. This may not be your favorite movie.

But if you were raised in the Borg or have spent enough time in it, then you will surely relate to this film.

The film may be a slow 96 minutes, but I believe worth it, especially the ending…

It’s available on Netflix instant queue and I’m sure on amazon.com

Here is what the NY times had to say about the film. The seems to metaphorically parallel religious doctrines and more closely I felt, to cults like our beloved Dubs…

Plenty of parents try to instill their values in their children and shield the little ones from the perils and temptations of the outside world. The mother and father in “Dogtooth,”a Greek festival-circuit conversation piece directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, present an extreme case of this kind of protectiveness. Their idea of home schooling is to provide their children with daily tape-recorded vocabulary lessons, which would not be unusual if the definitions were less idiosyncratic ( theocratic vocabulary).The three kids — two daughters (Aggeliki Papoulia as the elder, Mary Tsoni as the younger) and a son (Hristos Passalis) — are taught that “excursion” refers to a kind of flooring material and that a “sea” is a kind of armchair.

Odd. Odder still is that the children, who have never been given names or left the grounds of the quiet, green family estate, appear to be in their late teens or early 20s. Their father (Christos Stergioglou) is a factory manager, and he and his wife (Michelle Valley) have turned their home, its swimming pool and lush lawns surrounded by high wooden fences, into a sanctuary and prison for their dreamy offspring. ( the idea of paradise on earth anyone?) Those three wander about in their underwear, speak in monotones and seem perpetually on the verge of either incest or fratricide or both.

They think Frank Sinatra’s version of “Fly Me to the Moon”is a recording of their grandfather sending out a message of paternal love(The BG/FDS)? anyone?) and that ferocious cats(Satan? demons? the 'world'?) who live beyond the gate have killed an invisiblefourthsibling. “I’m going to give birth to two children and a dog,” their mother announces one night. Then again, if her son and daughters behave themselves, they may be spared further human siblings ( Armaggedon? fear?) . The dog is nonnegotiable, though.

Are mom and dad conducting some kind of perverse behaviorist experiment? Are they determined to shelter the younger generation in a world gone mad? That protective impulse, you may or may not recall, was the motive for similar grown-up behavior in “The Village,” the preposterous M. Night Shyamalan shocker from 2004. “Dogtooth” supplies no such explanation and at times seems as much an exercise in perversity as an examination of it. Mr. Lanthimos’s ends may be obscure, but his means can be seductive. The static wide-screen compositions are beautiful and strange, with the heads and limbs of the characters frequently cropped. The light is gauzy and diffuse, helping to produce an atmosphere that is insistently and not always unpleasantly dreamlike. You might think of paintings by Balthus or maybe Alex Katz, though the implied stories in those pictures are more genuinely evocative and haunting than the actual narrative of “Dogtooth.”

Not that conventional exposition is required. And there is something both appalling and marvelous in some of the scenes that Mr. Lanthimos (who wrote the screenplay with Efthimis Filippou) chooses to dramatize. A woman named Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), the only named character and a security guard at the factory that Dad has brought home to see to his son’s sexual needs, adds a dimension of deadpan comedy to the ambience of world-weary creepiness.

As I said, a conversation piece. Though the conversation may not proceed quite into the depths of psychosexual analysis that “Dogtooth” seems to invite. Your post-viewing discourse may be more along the lines of: “What was that?” “I don’t know. Weird.” “Yeah.” [shudder]. “Weird.” I wish I could come up with something better than that, but since I can’t invent a whole new vocabulary, I’ll leave it there

If you have watched the movie, what are your thoughts.

As the article mentioned, it may bear a similarity to 'The Village' I also saw another thread on JWN where 'The Island' was previously discussed.

If there are any other movies that have touched you, or reminded you of life in the Borg… please do share as well!

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I read this on Facebook

by jamiebowers in

http://www.silentlambs.org/rickbrown.htmsilentlambs alert!.

please click on link for photo.

i couldn't copy and paste it from the article below.. inmate photo, id#55989.

isojourn

send in to the newspaper anonamously?

Done

Done AND done...

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A LETTER FOR MRS PUNKOFNICE AND FRIENDS WITH LOVE

by clarity in

just talking today with an old friend.

wow she looks so much older now.

she has just retired from the "cleaning business" ... she's 76!.

isojourn

This really breaks my heart.

Overs the years I have known of people with so much potential give all up in exchange for a life of Emptiness ,sadness and poverty.

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TRUTH

by redhare67 in

if god is almighty, would he not have preserve the true church that jesus and the apostles build today?

instead of letting satan and apostates infiltrated the true church,so that its true teaching and the true church perished or was rejected by both jehovah and christ because of apostacy!if the true church survived and is with us today, where do the jehovah s witness organisation stand?.

isojourn

'GOD' is a big nerd and we're one of his favorite RPG's.

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Examining the scriptures 18/08/11 - APOSTATES!!!!

by punkofnice in

sorry i can't copy paste it as i don't have the cdubrom anymore.

(the bin man took it!).

mrs punk always leaves her book in a prominent place at the breakfast table hoping we'll read it, see the light and go grovelling back to the 7 headed beast (gb).

isojourn

I didn't know Satan was my father :( I always thought it was daddy vader...