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  I Care a Lot (2020) One of the worst movies I think I've ever seen

  by TD in

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  my wife and i were intrigued by the trailer, which looked like a humorous, over the top, dark comedy.. the story centers around the unscrupulousness of a female attorney named marla grayson (rosamund pike) who makes her living by preying on old people.

  grayson has her victims declared mentally incompetent, locks them away in a care facility she has bought off and then liquidates and pockets their assets as their court appointed guardian.. (spoilers ahead).

  ms. grayson humorously makes the mistake of singling out a seemingly helpless retiree name jennifer peterson (dianne wiest) as her next target.. grayson however, quickly discovers that peterson has millions of dollars in diamonds in a safe deposit box and far from being helpless is the mother of roman lunyov, (peter dinklage) a russian mafia figure who is not terribly happy with this turn of events.. up to this point, the movie was great.

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  Phizzy

  Thank you for taking the trouble to Review this Movie T.D, you have saved me from wasting time watching it !
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  Announcing The WatchtowerHelper Chrome extension

  by wtwrhelpclub in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a new free chrome extension opens up watchtower study articles on jw.org to global discussion!

  the extension lets you highlight, comment, and add footnotes.

  you can also view other's highlights and posts, all without leaving jw.org!

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  Phizzy

  " I'd be wary of someone showing up wanting me to install a Chrome extension that can see everything I browse ... but that's just me, suspicious."

  And RIGHTLY so !
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  The are not Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did you ever really think they were?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczp-csg0s8.

  in relation to the scriptures in isaiah it was identity theft..

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  Phizzy

  Apparently, and this may be Apocryphal, but Rutherford struggled long and hard to come up with a new name, to differentiate them from the Bible Students who were still going strong, but were loyal to the teachings of Russell, and not Rutherford's.

  He said it came to him " during the night". Quite how much liquor he had consumed before retiring who knows ? but if he had thought about it, to take a Scripture from Isaiah and apply it to a supposedly Christian group , and give it a name from pre Christian times, was a big mistake which would make the JW's sound weird to all and sundry.

  Maybe he did think about that, but went ahead anyway, not bothering that the new Testament clearly says we should be Witnesses of Jesus.
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  Big Cull of Foreign Language Groups and Congregations

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i overheard mrs eyeslice listening to '2021 governing body update 3' yesterday.

  apparently, they have started ditching foreign language groups and congregations as these weren't exactly roping anyone in.

  of course there is a positive spin on all this - '4,000 plus elders freed up to serve in local language congregations' and of course there has been immensely positive feedback from various branches about the benefits of this.. i suspect though there will be an awful lot of elders who were serving as king pins in these congregations who are going to have their noses put out by going back to local language congregations where they will barely be used.

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  " Jehovah's Chariot is on the move !" Where to ? to hide in the Wilderness ?

  I think stuff like this MUST add to the Cognitive Dissonance of those starting to wake up. Even when I was a practicing and believing JW, when they used to spin stuff as a " Blessing", or "Evidence we are deep in to the time of the End" I use to think then , " No it isn't" .
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  Article: Passing the Time By Firing Back at Jehovah’s Witnesses — With Letters

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/under-the-sun-why-a-local-woman-wants-to-nail-the-jehovahs-witnesses-11545704.

  kayleigh had run out of postage stamps and was waiting for new ones to arrive.

  it was slowing her assault on a local congregation of jehovah’s witnesses.. she pointed to a stack of letters she’d already written to what she liked to call “the jws.”.

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  An amusing thing to do if you are prepared to probably waste your time. Especially in this lady's case, as she will not have the required skills to write in such a way as to get past the JW Mind Controlled training that says " oops, opposer, chuck it in the bin".

  JW's, because their minds are strictly controlled, are impervious to facts and evidence and truth. The only way to get through to them is on an emotional level, and that takes usually knowledge of the individual and what triggers them emotionally.

  But emotion is all that attaches a JW to the Org and keeps them trapped inside, so Emotion is the only effective method.
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  The power of comedy

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  we live in strange times, in the middle of a culture war where saying certain opinions have consequences.

  <--- so much for free speech.. thank goodness for satire.. https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-factory-graciously-offers-to-house-unaccompanied-migrant-children.

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  What police have to deal with

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

  i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

  cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

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  " That's because of all the Muslim immigrants and the rape culture they brought with them.".

  And their Religious leaders are responsible for not bringing an end to that Culture. They are well known for receiving " New Light" like the JW's, so only have to proclaim that such Crimes will mean a person is Excommunicated ( Takfir) from the community if proven guilty, and it would stop most of them.
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  What police have to deal with

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so, the actions of cops have come under scrutiny in recent days, what with the trial of derek chauvin and the death of daunte wright.

  i certainly hope justice is served in both those cases.. what is easy for people to forget, is just what police officers have to deal with on a regular basis, during their interactions with citizens.. here's a video breaking down one such interaction.. a car owner was driving his car but the tags weren't legally displayed.

  cops wanted him to pull over but the driver continued driving for a mile and a half with a police car following with sirens and lights.

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  Phizzy

  Even here in the U.K people forget what the Cops have to deal with, on a daily basis they risk their lives too, admittedly because of our Gun Laws etc it is mercifully rare that they face someone armed with a gun, though still a very real possibility.

  But they have the absolute Scum, the Lower Sludge Pond life to deal with. And because our various Services have been underfunded for so many years, they have to deal with people with Mental Health and other problems that really should not come in their remit.

  They are remarkably restrained when dealing with some A Holes, very Professional, and we are often given the wrong half of the story. I have seen many people at protests and demonstrations deliberately winding up the Police on Duty. No wonder they get a smack occasionally when things kick off !

  Having said that, there are always within the Police bad elements who simply wish to use their power, and also may have racist or other bad attitudes, these guys are rare, but likely to cause a miscarriage of Justice, or even the death of someone. Bad Apples do not belong in the Force.
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  JW Scheduler

  by truthlover123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone on here downloaded the app " jw scheduler"?.

  in perusing this site i see info re if publishers are going back to the halls after the covid is "in control".

  some comments are that numbers are dropping - not here... more connected than were actually going to the halls.

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  Phizzy

  Whatever time these guys in Oz spend on operating the App. I bet they claim that as F.S time ! is there any way they make money out of this personally too perhaps ??
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  Prince Philip dies aged 99

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  born philippos, prince of denmark and greece in 1921, prince philip has died aged 99 years old (june 1921 - april 2021).. a very long, quite remarkable life lived.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaqxest27_e.

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  Phizzy

  The D.O.E was a man of his time and upbringing and life experience. I think people of much younger generations totally misunderstand his jokes and remarks, to call him a Racist is silly, he is a Royal, and all people who are not Royals are naturally thought of by them as being different.

  But few if any of his remarks seem to me to be malicious, they are not the usual racist tropes, and he didn't preclude anyone from the benefit of his humour. He enjoyed letting a little of the real Phillip show at times, we who have been JW's know what it is like to have to pretend, to always say the right thing, and nothing even slightly risqué or whatever, we should sympathise with the fella, he had hard role in life.