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  The Children Act - New arrival on Netflix

  by WinstonSmith in

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  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6040662/.

  as her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.. i saw the trailer for this a long time ago and its subject matter immediately got me interested.

  it has just been added the netflix catalogue here in australia and i am looking forward to finally watching it.. please, if you've seen it, no spoilers!.

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  Well, some interesting feedback on the movie! I'm going to check it out and report back...
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  The Children Act - New arrival on Netflix

  by WinstonSmith in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6040662/.

  as her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.. i saw the trailer for this a long time ago and its subject matter immediately got me interested.

  it has just been added the netflix catalogue here in australia and i am looking forward to finally watching it.. please, if you've seen it, no spoilers!.

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  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6040662/

  As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

  I saw the trailer for this a long time ago and its subject matter immediately got me interested. It has just been added the Netflix catalogue here in Australia and I am looking forward to finally watching it.

  Please, if you've seen it, no spoilers!
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  Notes From an Elders Meeting

  by WinstonSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so in this past week i came across a stash of my old elder stuff.

  i've scanned a bunch of notes and agendas, and public talk outlines.. check out an agenda and my notes from the meeting here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qqmyczn.

  i’ve put an explanatory note on each image in imgur.

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  @Doctor Who I remember similar experiences. The other ones are where there needs to be a show of hands from the elders about paying some money to a CO or a DO or head office and it was always unanimous. To the point where I always thought "why even bother asking?"
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  Movie Review 1917

  by Terry in

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  movie review"1917".

  i so seldom seek to sit inside an actual movie theater anymore.however ...some films are absolutely tailored for it.life of pigravityavatar3 examples of movies which do not translate to your home viewing...at all.good, bad, or indifferent - some films are visual and immersive.. here is a sacred pronouncement:movies are a visual medium.in the hands of an orson welles (i.e.

  citizen kane) they are a radio play+visual storytelling medium._____.

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  We saw this in a theater and I would agree that it would have the most impact on a big screen.
  
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  Notes From an Elders Meeting

  by WinstonSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so in this past week i came across a stash of my old elder stuff.

  i've scanned a bunch of notes and agendas, and public talk outlines.. check out an agenda and my notes from the meeting here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qqmyczn.

  i’ve put an explanatory note on each image in imgur.

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  Here's a couple of pages from the notes I took during a meeting that the CO had with elders during one of his visits. This section was on what to do if a young unbaptised publisher got involved in wrongdoing.

  LOL "wrongdoing"

  The second page is one of those classic cheesy CO illustrations....

  

  
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  "Fine Witness" diluted in latest experience

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.

  danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.

  inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.

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  ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara: Where is Andre?

  Ha ha I just made this reference too!

  
  
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  "Fine Witness" diluted in latest experience

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.

  danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.

  inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.

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  Winston,
  The answer to your questions is mentioned in the text on jw.org (not picked up in the original post):
  Some months later, Danielle’s father was again in contact with the man, who related what happened to him a short time before when he found a lost purse.

  Ahaa, that makes more sense! Was his name Andre?
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  "Fine Witness" diluted in latest experience

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.

  danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.

  inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.

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  Sigfrid Mallozi: Winston, exactly! Great critical thinking skills.

  eyeuses2badub: I'm with WinstonSmith on this. I call bullsh*t.

  Something just seems weird doesn't it...
  
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  "Fine Witness" diluted in latest experience

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the latest jwdotorg experience starts very familiarly:.

  danielle, one of jehovah’s witnesses in south africa, found a bag that a customer had left behind in a coffee shop.

  inside the bag was a wallet with money and credit cards.. when the owner met her to get it back,.

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  Two things:

  1: If the bag was left in a coffee shop, most people wouldn't rifle through the bag, they would leave it with the coffee shop owners.

  2: How do they know this bit happened?

  Some months later,
  . . . he discovered a purse lying on the ground. When he found the woman who owned the purse and returned it to her, he explained what moved him to do so. He had recently been the recipient of a similar act of honesty. He said: “One small act of honesty and kindness leads to another, making life better for everyone in the community.”

  Did the guy contact the borg and tell them? Did the borg track him down and ask him what changes he had made in his life since this life altering contact with JWs?
  
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  Hellooooo! 6 years since i posted

  by Aussie Oz in

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  so... it has been six years since my last post.

  i wonder who still remembers me?

  a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.

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  Dude, I too started posting again recently after finding some stuff! Surely this is a sign that Armageddon is soon