Posts by Normalfulla

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JWs at the Movies

so i was watching some of the dramas screened at the be courageous convention, and one caught my eye.. it's the scene where a group of jw teens are watching something deemed as "sinful" at the movie theaters.

there were only sound effects, so i decided to fill in the blanks.. https://vimeo.com/275184883.

bottom line: machine guns = bad.

Normalfulla

This version should be shown at the cannes film festival, makes more sense than the original, just need to know which category to enter it... Drama, COMEDY... mockery, parody... OK all of them. Well done on the edits joho. At club jdub-ana cool aids free....

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So What Drastic Money Change is Next?

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

okay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.

they reduced printing of mags.

they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.

Normalfulla

Morpheus

Apart from the great info and thoughts on this forum, for me the entertainment is the rival tennis match between you and Slim :-D

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Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies

by Simon in

so the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.

sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.

we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?

Normalfulla

SIMON a great low budget time travel movie is safety not guaranteed

Apart from being low budget and quirky it has the best ending!

https://youtu.be/73jSnAs7mq8

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"Apostasy" is worse than...??

by stuckinarut2 in

it is funny to contemplate how ridiculous the act of shunning "apostates" who leave the org for conscientious reasons is.. so we have been rudely ignored and even abused by jws who :.

1) have been imprisoned recently for dishonest business practices and fraud worth millions of dollars.

2) have been bankrupt several times.

Normalfulla

Oi stuck, yr so right mate, a raving reinstated pedophile can mingle among the cong and talk to his friends and family but the ones who walk away and who's only perceived crime is to disagree with "the truth" are treated worse than leppers, at least people felt sorry for the leppers!..

Interesting hearing some of yr interactions with jw of late,.. sad

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The glass prison

by Normalfulla in

cognitive dissonance.

a term i came to learn about after waking up as i'm sure many of us here did.

i was thinking of how this condition is similar to the proverbial glass prison, how jw are unknowingly confined by the walls of their belief while observing life around them but are truly captives to a concept as ray put it.. .

Normalfulla

Cognitive dissonance. A term I came to learn about after waking up as I'm sure many of us here did. I was thinking of how this condition is similar to the proverbial glass prison, how jw are unknowingly confined by the walls of their belief while observing life around them but are truly captives to a concept as Ray put it..

I recalled the last conversation I had with my elder brother and after explaining why I can't believe in the flood for instance because of x.y and z I said "how can you believe something that has been debunked by science and logic?"

He said in a frustrated pissed off tone, "I don't need to prove it happened or didn't, jesus believed it was true so that's good enough for me! "

I found that statement totally absurd...

" There's no walls here see I'm free!" So says the captive from inside their glass prison

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Did You Ever Luke ANY Songs From The “Songbook “?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i went on line looking for old jw songs and some of them were pretty good and some were just awful!.

did you ever like any of those songs?

.

Normalfulla

I had a pet hate... Being a musician I couldn't understand why we were only permitted to use the orchestra arrangements to sing to at assemblys and the dryballs plonking unaccompanied piano tracks at the kingdom hall, it was so cringe worthy, it was such a cardboard, drab excuse for song... Not even some reverb or strings to colour it. Puke....

Oh and had to laugh at some of the stupid lyrical attempts to rhyme... Efficacious...! Wtf effen ridiculous more like it

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Rejoice cos God's tent is.... Disintegrated by a cat 5 truth storm

by Normalfulla in

just had to share... a former friend of my wife's, has just left our house, unbeknown to us, her and her husband have been inactive for about a year and a half, they have pre teen boys too.

she reached out to my wife as she had heard that we were apostates etc and needed someone to talk to.. .

after her father dying she was in a bad place mentally and emotionally and reached out to her cong for support, apon receiving 0 she turned to the bible for comfort only in her raw emotional state to realize that jehovah was a murderous unfair god and then her wheels of rational reasoning started turning.. she questioned things and was outspoken about things and attracted elder attention... long story short she wanted to connect with a friendly ear and she splurged she's never going back, the bible is all bulls**t and it's a cult, despite not knowing most of ttatt we all shared experiences and watched her eyes boggle at (stuckinarut... the first euphoric high) the un scandal, beth sarim, ray franz, 607, arc.

Normalfulla

Just had to share... A former friend of my wife's, has just left our house, unbeknown to us, her and her husband have been inactive for about a year and a half, they have pre teen boys too. She reached out to my wife as she had heard that we were Apostates etc and needed someone to talk to..

After her father dying she was in a bad place mentally and emotionally and reached out to her cong for support, apon receiving 0 she turned to the Bible for comfort only in her raw emotional state to realize that Jehovah was a murderous unfair God and then her wheels of rational reasoning started turning.. She questioned things and was outspoken about things and attracted elder attention... Long story short she wanted to connect with a friendly ear and she splurged she's never going back, the Bible is all bulls**t and it's a cult, despite not knowing most of TTATT we all shared experiences and watched her eyes boggle at (stuckinarut... The first euphoric high) the UN scandal, Beth sarim, Ray franz, 607, ARC. She was like a junkie gagging for more... Hats off to her for waking up on her own without the mighty excalibur of jwfacts or any of the aforementioned scandals... Just wanted to share... another family saved

Peace out Mr flipped out normalfulla

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KH hall 4 sale just whose waters are supposed to be drying up again?!

by nowwhat? in

avon lake ohio.

while new mega church being built right down the street!.

Normalfulla

Does anyone have a consolidation of numbers from around the globe of just how many halls have been sold vs built?

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Cancer in Animals

by Normalfulla in

we were taught sickness and death is a result of the sin inherited from adam and eve, so why do animals get cancer?

they are supposedly still as big j intended, so therefore cancer is a creation by the big fella himself?.

just an exercise for one's who believe in the whole bible story thing.. (not me)... any others anomalies you can think of ?

Normalfulla

Wow... @jo-ho that post takes the cake. I've just leveled up in this game of life thanks to that... Thank you

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Cancer in Animals

by Normalfulla in

we were taught sickness and death is a result of the sin inherited from adam and eve, so why do animals get cancer?

they are supposedly still as big j intended, so therefore cancer is a creation by the big fella himself?.

just an exercise for one's who believe in the whole bible story thing.. (not me)... any others anomalies you can think of ?

Normalfulla

We were taught sickness and death is a result of the sin inherited from Adam and Eve, so why do animals get cancer? They are supposedly still as big J intended, so therefore cancer is a creation by the big fella himself?. Just an exercise for one's who believe in the whole Bible story thing.. (not me)... any others anomalies you can think of ?