been to see the new film (movie) tonight.
outstanding!
brought back lots of memories.
Watched it last night. I absolutely loved it. Malik plays a very good Freddy (that accent isn’t easy to do). Brian and John are dead ringers and the mannerisms were just like them (John Deacons squint!).
Ive has the line aid version of Radio Gaga on a lot this morning 😊
The Elton John biopic is out next: Rocketman.
am i imagining this?at the kingdom hall we were told many times that noah warned the others about the coming flood and was ridiculed but actually there is no evidence of this in the bible!there is however evidence to the contrary.
matthew 24:37-39.
37 as it was in the days of noah, so it will be at the coming of the son of man.
Just for the JW lurkers... checkout biblehub.com which has many translations (including the original greek) which states:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/24-39.htm
"And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will be the coming of the Son of Man."
Pretty hard to "be oblivious" if you've you've been warned isn't it? The Greek word "
ἔγνωσαν" translates as "understood": https://biblehub.com/greek/egno_san_1097.htm
Yes, your god YHWH is a murderer who drowned people who had no idea what or why it was happening.
Preacher of righteousness my ass.
crazy people shoot up places and kill people.
take away guns and they will find knives, poison, bombs , etc.. seriously, there are a lot of mentally unhealthy people!
they need professional long term help..
A lot of mentally ill people here in the UK too minimus... guess how many have gone into a school and shot up or sliced up a classroom?
To my recollection, the last one was the Dunblane massacre in 1996 with 17 casualties. In fact, random people taking up arms and randomly killing eachother isnt very common over here. Sure we still have gangs (who tend to target other gangs) and we have terrorism but nowhere near the level the USA has.
so my mum died from mild form of lukemia which can simply be treated with a blood transfusion each month.
to me this was a watchtower assisted suicide.
the liaison elder encouraged her to "stay strong" and said a prayer.
I know my mum would. In fact, she'd take two just to pove how holier than the rest of them she is.
My sisters would too.
I'd reckon at least a third of the rank and file.
hi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
We need someone to start a similar thread in JWTalk. This'd be priceless. They really do discuss shit like this over there.
i recently had to take a trip with my family to bethel.
it was a bit torturous for a secret apostate as you can imagine.
but mostly just so boring.
I went to the one in New York back in 2004 and the London one in 2009. At the time I genuinely enjoyed the New York one simply because I believed it was the dwelling place of "the governing body" - the holy of holies. Saw lots of printing machines and people being overworked with painted smiles. There was a little museum just to the right of the reception with CT Russell era stuff.
The one in London wasn't interesting at all. I remember they made us watch a video before the tour started. Cant remember what it was about but something along the lines of it's a privilege to be here. But I got what I could out of it. At one of the printing presses there were orange magazines being churned out and the guide told us not to look at what they're printing because it's a new mag for the convention (it turned out to be the "Origin of Life" brochure).
At the end of the London tour they took us to a room with thousands of books/literature in any language you could think of. People were taking random books as a souvenir.
Looking back, the people working there must have been overworked and stressed. The guy who's job it was to chop the convention badges into rectangles day in, day out looked like he'd died inside.
imagine that you are in the middle of the (jws version) great tribulation.
food and basic supplies are scarce, the secret and not-so-secret police are actively searching for you and your family.
you have to make it to bro faithful's secret bunker to hunker down with the rest of the congregation.
Tell ya what, if I were in that bunker, that Latina sister and I would soon find ourselves disfellowshipped.
I mean... damn...
hi guys .
i was wondering about the above , if a jw is allowed to remarry if a spouse has died, then what happens when they are resurrected at armageddon, do u land up with two wives/husbands ,,,,,,, makes no sense to me & can the jw's be so dumb not to think about this or have i got it wrong ?
and i will not be asking my uber jw husband , don't have the energy.. thanks.
My mum only remarried (18 months after my father died... 2 weeks after meeting the guy) because she thought she wouldnt be married to my dad in the "new world".
Since the teaching changed to "we dont know" she's felt very silly. She used to randomly explain herself to me and by siblings even though we never asked.
there's a preview note on one of the articles in this newly released watchtower.
the note can be found on an article titled "part 1 of 4 love and justice in ancient israel".the note states -.
this article is the first in a series of four that will discuss why we can be sure that jehovah cares about us.
What a lame attempt to pacify the drones.
Jehovah showed tender personal interest in the most vulnerable in the community. And he held those who mistreated them to account.—Read Exodus 22:22-24.
23 The Law also protected family members from sex crimes by forbidding all forms of incest. (Lev. 18:6-30) Unlike the people of the nations surrounding Israel, who tolerated or even condoned this practice, Jehovah’s people were to view this type of crime as Jehovah did—as a detestable act.
24 Lessons: Jehovah wants those he places in positions of responsibility to take a loving interest in all whom they oversee. He hates sex crimes and wants to ensure that all, especially the most vulnerable, receive protection and justice.
Incest was detestable act, yet taking virgin girls as "spoils of war" and forcing a rape victim to marry her rapist was o-ok.
in the real world, very few parents would disown their own children simply because they read a magazine that told them to do it.
very few people would forever completely ignore their own parents because an elder got up on a platform one day and announced that they no longer follow the same religion as you.. in the real world it just doesn't happen.
and yet, for 8 million jehovah's witnesses it's very a normal part of their world to treat "other people" differently than they'd treat each other.
The post is about dehumanizing.
The Nazi ideology was able to convince people to do things they wouldnt normally do by dehumanizing another group.
The Japanese were able to do what they did without feeling repulsed by dehumanizing.
Cults are able to get their followers to do what they do by dehumanizing.
Nowhere did the post say Nazi and Japanese concentration camps are on par with shunning. Im simply explaining a method of psychological manipulation.
