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  Hulu’s ‘The Path’ portrays family life inside a cult

  by freemindfade in

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  this looks great for people who are both cult survivors and aaron paul fans!

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/slow-but-emotionally-creepy-hulus-the-path-portrays-family-life-inside-a-cult/2016/03/29/43840c46-f2c5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html.

  slow but emotionally creepy, hulu’s ‘the path’ portrays family life inside a cult.

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  NikL

  I know this is an old thread but I just discovered this show myself and so far after watching the first two episodes I concur. Interesting watch.
  
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  A Perfect Life Isn't Worth Living?

  by Sorry in

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  think of your favorite tv shows.

  what do they all have in common?

  the answer is they revolve around some type of problem or conflict.

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  NikL

  It seems to me the Eden story of Adam and Eve is an allegory about people being unaware of themselves until Satan came into the picture and helped them to become self aware.

  So humans were much like the dogs I have out in the yard. laying on the lawn all day doing what dogs do never getting bored because they don't have a concept of time or themselves.

  I guess they are kinda dumb.

  Maybe that's why the WT is dumbing everyone down. To prepare humans for paradise. :-)
  
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  UK Daily Mirror: Vampire Farms

  by darkspilver in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  front page of today's daily mirror newspaper in the uk (26 january 2017).

  vampire farms exposed: british meat in cruel horse hormone scandal as pregnant mares' blood is injected into pigs.

  thousands of pregnant horses are kept on blood farms for fertility product which is then sold to uk vets and factory farmers to help increase production.

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  NikL

  Hey dark,

  is the Mirror a reliable news source?

  We have the "enquirer" and several other tabloids in the states but they are so inaccurate in their reporting that it's more of a joke.

  Do Brits take reporting in the Mirror, The Star, The Sun and the like seriously?

  I've been wondering this for a while.
  
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  1919 What???

  by NikL in

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  i had seen it before but never actually looked.. sure enough in july 15 2013 wt .... 17 in the past, we have stated in our publications that these last four references apply to jesus’ arriving, or coming, in 1918. as an example, take jesus’ statement about “the faithful and discreet slave.” (read matthew 24:45-47.

  ) we understood that the “arriving” mentioned in verse 46 was linked to the time when jesus came to inspect the spiritual condition of the anointed in 1918 and that the appointment of the slave over all the master’s belongings occurred in 1919.

  (mal.

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  NikL

  I sure like Rutherturds wheels though Finkelstein.

  I would imagine that would be the equivalent of a Rolls or a Bentley by today's standards.

  And they used to blast televangelists.
  
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  1919 What???

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
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  i had seen it before but never actually looked.. sure enough in july 15 2013 wt .... 17 in the past, we have stated in our publications that these last four references apply to jesus’ arriving, or coming, in 1918. as an example, take jesus’ statement about “the faithful and discreet slave.” (read matthew 24:45-47.

  ) we understood that the “arriving” mentioned in verse 46 was linked to the time when jesus came to inspect the spiritual condition of the anointed in 1918 and that the appointment of the slave over all the master’s belongings occurred in 1919.

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  The other that ALWAYS was in my mind about the slave is that the way it's written makes me think that it was BOTH good and evil.
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  Has 1919 been abandoned? Is the sky falling?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  i copied the following two items from jw dot orgs site entitled “dates of prophetic significance” at site below:.

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200271564.

  once held to be year when ‘true lord and messenger of the covenant’ came to spiritual temple (mal 3:1): w10 3/15 23; w07 4/1 22; w07 12/15 27-28; jd 179-182; re 31-32, 55-56; w92 12/1 13; w89 4/15 7; w89 7/1 30; w87 6/15 14-15. .

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  In a recent book study we considered in the "Gods Kingdom Rules" book...

  7 Shortly after he was installed as King, Jesus took steps to prepare his followers for the vast work to be done. As we saw in Chapter 2, he did an inspection and a cleansing work from 1914 to early 1919. (Mal. 3:1-4) Then, in 1919, he appointed the faithful slave to take the lead among his followers. (Matt. 24:45) Especially from that time onward, that slave began dispensing spiritual food—by means of convention discourses and printed publications—that repeatedly emphasized the responsibility of all Christians to have a personal share in preaching.

  So is it dead or not?
  
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  1919 What???

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had seen it before but never actually looked.. sure enough in july 15 2013 wt .... 17 in the past, we have stated in our publications that these last four references apply to jesus’ arriving, or coming, in 1918. as an example, take jesus’ statement about “the faithful and discreet slave.” (read matthew 24:45-47.

  ) we understood that the “arriving” mentioned in verse 46 was linked to the time when jesus came to inspect the spiritual condition of the anointed in 1918 and that the appointment of the slave over all the master’s belongings occurred in 1919.

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  @steve2

  Apparently, the most recent "light" states the evil slave is not a literal class - so all current references to this Scripture scrupulously avoid using that old Rutherfordian nomenclature "The evil slave class".

  Something that seems to escape them too...if the evil slave is not a literal class...it stands to reason the faithful slave is not either.

  @ compound complex

  I think they call it keeping up with Jehovah's chariot.
  
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  1919 What???

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had seen it before but never actually looked.. sure enough in july 15 2013 wt .... 17 in the past, we have stated in our publications that these last four references apply to jesus’ arriving, or coming, in 1918. as an example, take jesus’ statement about “the faithful and discreet slave.” (read matthew 24:45-47.

  ) we understood that the “arriving” mentioned in verse 46 was linked to the time when jesus came to inspect the spiritual condition of the anointed in 1918 and that the appointment of the slave over all the master’s belongings occurred in 1919.

  (mal.

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  I had seen it before but never actually looked.

  Sure enough in July 15 2013 WT ...

  17 In the past, we have stated in our publications that these last four references apply to Jesus’ arriving, or coming, in 1918. As an example, take Jesus’ statement about “the faithful and discreet slave.” (Read Matthew 24:45-47.) We understood that the “arriving” mentioned in verse 46 was linked to the time when Jesus came to inspect the spiritual condition of the anointed in 1918 and that the appointment of the slave over all the Master’s belongings occurred in 1919. (Mal. 3:1) However, a further consideration of Jesus’ prophecy indicates that an adjustment in our understanding of the timing of certain aspects of Jesus’ prophecy is needed. Why so?

  18. A consideration of Jesus’ prophecy in its entirety leads us to what conclusion about Jesus’ coming?

  18 In the verses that lead up to Matthew 24:46, the word “coming” refers consistently to the time when Jesus comes to pronounce and execute judgment during the great tribulation. (Matt. 24:30, 42, 44) Also, as we considered in paragraph 12, Jesus’ ‘arriving’ mentioned at Matthew 25:31 refers to that same future time of judgment. So it is reasonable to conclude that Jesus’ arrival to appoint the faithful slave over all his belongings, mentioned at Matthew 24:46, 47, also applies to his future coming, during the great tribulation.* Indeed, a consideration of Jesus’ prophecy in its entirety makes it clear that each of these eight references to his coming applies to the future time of judgment during the great tribulation.

  19. What adjustments in understanding did we consider, and what questions will be answered in the following articles?

  19 In review, what have we learned? In the beginning of this article, we raised three “when” questions. We first considered that the great tribulation did not begin in 1914 but will start when the United Nations attacks Babylon the Great. Then, we reviewed why Jesus’ judgment of the sheep and the goats did not begin in 1914 but will occur during the great tribulation. Finally, we examined why Jesus’ arrival to appoint the faithful slave over all his belongings did not occur in 1919 but will take place during the great tribulation. So, then, all three “whens” apply to the same future time period—the great tribulation.
  

  In a recent book study we considered in the "Gods Kingdom Rules" book...

  7 Shortly after he was installed as King, Jesus took steps to prepare his followers for the vast work to be done. As we saw in Chapter 2, he did an inspection and a cleansing work from 1914 to early 1919. (Mal. 3:1-4) Then, in 1919, he appointed the faithful slave to take the lead among his followers. (Matt. 24:45) Especially from that time onward, that slave began dispensing spiritual food—by means of convention discourses and printed publications—that repeatedly emphasized the responsibility of all Christians to have a personal share in preaching.

  Wow.

  So the slave was appointed in 1919...then it wasn't...then it was.

  Seems more like a strobe light than a light getting brighter.
  
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  JWs in Russia- "Pray for those in prison"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night at the midweek meeting was a part titled "pray for those in prison" or something like that.. they showed a video all about the witnesses in russia and the court battles they've been fighting of late and the hard time they have been having because of it all.. the first thing that struck me, hey, why don't you a** holes in brooklyn send these poor sods a few rubles to help them along?.

  nah!

  prayer is what they need.. anyway, i hadn't really followed the story so i thought i would look it up this morning and see what was in the media about the story.. on the npr website they had a big write up about it back in may of last year.... http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/17/476898973/russias-jehovahs-witnesses-fight-extremist-label-possible-ban.

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  Sorry darkspilver.

  The transcript looked a lot like what I heard last night.

  I am CERTAIN this congregation didn't go rogue. LOL

  In honesty I wasn't paying real close attention to the part because i kept wondering if the society was sending financial aid to these poor folks in Russia.
  
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  JWs in Russia- "Pray for those in prison"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last night at the midweek meeting was a part titled "pray for those in prison" or something like that.. they showed a video all about the witnesses in russia and the court battles they've been fighting of late and the hard time they have been having because of it all.. the first thing that struck me, hey, why don't you a** holes in brooklyn send these poor sods a few rubles to help them along?.

  nah!

  prayer is what they need.. anyway, i hadn't really followed the story so i thought i would look it up this morning and see what was in the media about the story.. on the npr website they had a big write up about it back in may of last year.... http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/17/476898973/russias-jehovahs-witnesses-fight-extremist-label-possible-ban.

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  darkspilver...I think that was the video they played last night.