I'm shocked to hear that composer James Horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. So many film scores, Titanic, Avatar, Braveheart, Field of Dreams, Aliens, Cocoon, Patriot Games, Bicentennial Man, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Sneakers, Batteries Not Included, The Name of the Rose and many, many more. A genius who will be sadly missed. He gave us so much beautiful music.
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James Horner dies
by Xanthippe ini'm shocked to hear that composer james horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. so many film scores, titanic, avatar, braveheart, field of dreams, aliens, cocoon, patriot games, bicentennial man, star trek iii: the search for spock, sneakers, batteries not included, the name of the rose and many, many more.
a genius who will be sadly missed.
he gave us so much beautiful music..
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10 years and Satan finally struck....
by snare&racket ini left around a decade ago, life has not been easy, but it has been profoundly better than the jw robotics my earlier life chapters resembled.. my current life was going so well, too well...... and finally the nemesis of jahooha came out from his dark hiding place.
no longer in gods tent i was as vulnerable as the chinese job and his unfortunate sheep and children.. satan, bless his socks of cotton, has finally attacked, he broke my leg the dark lordy bastard.. a spiral fracture of the fibula and various fractures the ankle joint.. the worst of all his evil doings was the story i have to tell people, it's 'mechanism of injury'..... i slipped on some grass.
yes the devilish ball rash, got me good.. so now, i sit bored, wishing i had meetings to prepare for, talks to write and i long for the live bombing i would have received as an interesting new kingdom hall event in the decades of waiting on jahooha..... but all i have is some lame ass, american apostates on a forum..... tchhhh.... .
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Lame ass British apostate here Snare, hope you feel better soon. 🌼🌷🌹🌺🌻 -
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Charity
by aintenoughwiskey inwe know the wt interpretation of matt 25:40 is support of the anointed.
since most of us here are no longer in that situation, what, if any forms of charity are you involved in?
sorry for the awkward framing of the question, it's not meant to imply atheists, or non-christians are not charitable!
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WWF, UNICEF, Save the Children. I give very small amounts but it's the regularity that's important. Also a member of Amnesty International which is not strictly a charity but has a charitable section. I've sometimes emailed or written to national leaders about prisoners of conscience. -
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Small details...
by Garrett ina witness friend wanted to meet up recently and talk.
since this person was a close friend and who i thought had a level head, i'd go ahead and speak with him.
our conversation actually helped me figure a few things out not only for myself but also about the witnesses.. so we're talking and i'm telling him my experience and the doctrines that i disagreed with as well as the scandals that made me disgusted with the organization.
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Garrett I like your car analogy. If you apply it to the key teachings of the religion when it began it goes something like this. The Bible Students started preaching that we are living in the time of the end that Jesus prophecied about and therefore we all need to leave Christendom and join them in the preaching work to survive Armageddon and save others.
So first take away that it's going to happen in one generation from the Kingdom being set up in 1914. Say that it is going to be within overlapping generations of 1914, which could go on for decades. Then say that what Jesus prophecied actually mostly applied to the first century. Then say we don't have to reach everyone because God reads hearts, so let's do lots of building work instead to make ourselves cosy in this system with comfortable branch offices, KH and assembly halls, which by the way can you all send money to us to pay for!
What you're left with is a totally different religion that has been changed piece by piece as you said. Now none of us are living in the time of the end at all. When they said millions now living will never die they were wrong and they're all dead. Either God got mixed up or he keeps getting his signals crossed to the FDS so they started too early.
Even staying within their own beliefs now those alive are not living in the time of the end and they've proved that they can't work out when the end is coming. They are all going to die and have to be resurrected to paradise. How is that different from any other religion? So why bother preaching? Why not live their lives and wait for the resurrection? What's the hurry?
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Where are the Young Elders?
by James Jack ini was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.
which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.
in our town we have 2 english congregations.
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I was appointed as an Elder when I turned 30, 25 years ago. Which was the norm back then. - James Jack
Yes my husband was 30 when he was made an elder. It's good to know young guys are wising up now and leaving this religion.BTW Is it me ladies, or are some ex JW men inappropriately school boy like when it comes to sex...I guess they are catching up emotionally as well as physically!!!
It's not just you Diogenesister. They are catching up, like kids in a sweet shop sometimes. By their posts and especially their pictures I often think men on here are about eighteen or perhaps early twenties. Then they let slip they are in their forties or fifties. I like your posts by the way, welcome. -
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Why are JWs so against debate
by enigma1863 inif the jws follow proverbs 27:17 they should not be afraid of any tension or friction.. in order for iron to sharpen iron you need pressure, tension friction and a bit of heated debate..
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Oh azor all the best for Monday! You are amazing. What great parents you two are. Hope it goes well 🌺 -
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Why are JWs so against debate
by enigma1863 inif the jws follow proverbs 27:17 they should not be afraid of any tension or friction.. in order for iron to sharpen iron you need pressure, tension friction and a bit of heated debate..
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Xanthippe - yes I should have made it clearer in my original post. I was not even thinking of the former Princess Diana of England.
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Why are JWs so against debate
by enigma1863 inif the jws follow proverbs 27:17 they should not be afraid of any tension or friction.. in order for iron to sharpen iron you need pressure, tension friction and a bit of heated debate..
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Children of murdered Charleston minister have "already forgiven" their Mother's killer.
by nicolaou ini'm not judging these poor young people, if this is how they are coping with the trauma of losing their mum i can only wish them well.
i have to admit though that my jaw dropped when i first saw this interview, i couldn't square their reaction with what i understand as 'normal' human grief.. is this religiously motivated form of forgiveness a positive thing?
should i acknowledge this as something to be said in favour of religion?.
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Nic I agree with those that say let's cut these people some slack because they are overwhelmed with grief at the moment and are falling back on their belief systems for comfort.
Having buried my parents and husband I have experienced something I really can't describe properly. When my mother died, we drove away from the hospital at dawn on a gorgeous May morning. The scenery looked so bright and the world seemed so beautiful, rabbits, pheasant everywhere and even a fox crossed the road. I remember thinking what a beautiful day. When my husband died something similar happened, I felt such love for everyone involved and I wanted to comfort them.
Yes it is probably caused by a brain chemistry change brought on by shock and grief that has survival value but there is something about acute grief that makes you feel what life is all about in those few days afterward. It makes everything so real, everything so poignant, relationships so important. Death makes everything else seem trivial.
So I agree it seems weird to say you forgive someone who has murdered your loved one and I feel sure I wouldn't feel that but what grief does to your brain chemistry plus their belief system might explain it.
As regards forgiveness, I don't understand the concept of forgiveness in the religious sense. I think we have long memories for things that hurt us because that's how successful species survive. We remember the things that cause pain, physically and emotionally. Is the grief reaction of these people normal? Probably, within their belief system.
Perhaps forgiveness has been the best we could come up with to help ourselves psychologically thus far in our development as a species. Now we understand the brain and the mind much more I don't think we need to necessarily forgive to recover from trauma and move on, there is therapy and more out there to help us.
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What is their position on IVF?
by voodoo lady infor example, if a married couple had fertility issues relating to the male partner's sperm, could they use a donor?.
is it frowned upon in a more general sense because people should be preaching rather than procreating?.
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Interesting question voodoo lady. Also what I understand about their position on IVF using the husband's sperm only is that it's now a conscience matter. Which infuriates me because I have a sister and a sister-in-law who can't have children and IVF was forbidden when we were all young. Who knows, it may have worked for them. Now they are too old to have children the almighty GB say go ahead. So many lives wrecked by these megalomaniacs.
