I did enjoy it cobweb. They did not get it wrong, I'm baffled where that idea has come from. It's amazingly accurate. Mentions elders, the governing body. If the family struggle to explain the no blood rule I think it's because anyone would struggle with it.
Xanthippe
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The Children Act - Emma Thompson - advertised on ITV One - prime time.
by freddo inas you probably know "the children act" is a film starring emma thompson as a high court judge deciding whether or not to transfuse a teen jw.
it is due to be on general release in the uk on august 24th 2018. september 14th usa.. its shortened trailer is being advertised in the uk on the biggest independent tv channel - namely itv - at prime time.
just seen it in advertisment breaks between 6pm and 7pm uk time.. thought you might like to know..
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The Children Act - Emma Thompson - advertised on ITV One - prime time.
by freddo inas you probably know "the children act" is a film starring emma thompson as a high court judge deciding whether or not to transfuse a teen jw.
it is due to be on general release in the uk on august 24th 2018. september 14th usa.. its shortened trailer is being advertised in the uk on the biggest independent tv channel - namely itv - at prime time.
just seen it in advertisment breaks between 6pm and 7pm uk time.. thought you might like to know..
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Xanthippe
I saw this film this afternoon. I think it's a brilliant film. Ian McEwan portrays a young man who is indoctrinated by his religious parents who finally glimpses another world. Emma Thompson introduces him to poetry and the idea there's a big world out there, bigger than his tin-pot religion.
It reminded me of Willy Russell's Educating Rita. That scene in the pub after she's been studying Shakespeare and she thinks Lady Macbeth is a cow. Her husband and family are having fun in the pub and she just feels lost. She's glimpsed another world, she doesn't fit in there and she's doesn't fit in with her tutor's friends so when he invites her around for dinner she doesn't go.
This is the problem. You grow up in this religious world, you look down on scientists, academics, literature, everything really. Then you find yourself in the world and at first you feel lost. I think that's what McEwan was trying to show in the film. When people leave a cult they have nowhere to go and they feel totally lost.
I read the book and saw the film and I don't think Adam went back to the religion, I think he refused treatment, effectively took his own life because he felt lost in the real world and couldn't cope with the fact that his parents would have let him die. I think he was depressed and suicidal.
Good book, good film by one of my favourite authors and an atheist who is trying to get the word out about religion and how it damages people.
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Do you like to experiment when cooking?
by Xanthippe injust lately i've become weary of following recipes in books or online.
recently when on holiday in the lake district i wanted to make pasta with a tomato and cheese sauce but the only interesting cheese they had at the local store was a somerset brie.
i discovered when peeled of its skin and tossed in with tomatoes and pasta it melts beautifully and tasted amazing.
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Xanthippe
Thanks you guys, everyone's doing such great cooking!
LV101 I love tomatoes too. It's great having a greenhouse. Maybe one day you'll have more time.
How lovely that you're making food Izabella can eat too Darkknight.
Scruff, I want to try more marinades, especially on fish.
caves, you've eaten some weird stuff! I love blueberries, I bet that pie was delicious, I must try making one.
Wow Flipper thanks so much for the recipes. You make a lot of wonderful stuff. I will try them but I can't promise to stick to them religiously đ
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Do you like to experiment when cooking?
by Xanthippe injust lately i've become weary of following recipes in books or online.
recently when on holiday in the lake district i wanted to make pasta with a tomato and cheese sauce but the only interesting cheese they had at the local store was a somerset brie.
i discovered when peeled of its skin and tossed in with tomatoes and pasta it melts beautifully and tasted amazing.
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Do you like to experiment when cooking?
by Xanthippe injust lately i've become weary of following recipes in books or online.
recently when on holiday in the lake district i wanted to make pasta with a tomato and cheese sauce but the only interesting cheese they had at the local store was a somerset brie.
i discovered when peeled of its skin and tossed in with tomatoes and pasta it melts beautifully and tasted amazing.
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Xanthippe
Just lately I've become weary of following recipes in books or online. Recently when on holiday in the Lake District I wanted to make pasta with a tomato and cheese sauce but the only interesting cheese they had at the local store was a Somerset Brie. I discovered when peeled of its skin and tossed in with tomatoes and pasta it melts beautifully and tasted amazing. I always thought it was fatty but it oozes because of the high water content apparently and is lower in calories than cheddar.
Today I'm trying Brie in a pastry tart with roasted vegetables, garlic, red pepper and tomatoes. Mainly becomes I have a glut of tomatoes in the greenhouse and also I'm trying out recipes for my vegetarian daughter.
Do you like to experiment, what do you make?
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Big news today
by former2free infor you who have read my bio you will know i have been working on my wife to wake her up.
now i wonât call her awake yet but through a series of long conversations this week i revealed to her my dissenting toward the jw faith.
she was totally supportive of me assured me she would never think differently of me because of how i feel.
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Xanthippe
Brilliant news, hope she makes it all the way out. Slowly, slowly is the answer.
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Advice on my JW Mother
by InjusticeSystem ini need the advice of those of you who are exjw's on what to do about my still in mother.
briefly, here's the situation: i am a born-in, never got baptised (thank the fsm), became an athiest about 2015 but haven't come out to anyone but my wife and some trusted friends.
my mother was raised in the society and is a true believer, but was never as strict about it as some parents are when i was growing up.
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Xanthippe
You're an adult, if you really can't bear that your mother has gone back to the religion that ruined your childhood then you have to make decisions now for your own well-being. Your mother was a widow and started a relationship with a married man that turned into a very bad marriage. The divorce damaged her and now she's blaming a wrong choice on leaving the religion.
I don't have a relationship with my siblings, my JW mother died years ago. After a while I couldn't stomach their silly passive-aggressive games to bring me back. I realised that the so-called acts of love, shunning, we're just punishment for hurting them by shaking their faith when I left. I just get in touch if I hear they are seriously ill, then watch them drop me again, which I can handle.
So it's up to you, make your decision for your own health and happiness. I assume when you talk about coming out you mean telling your mother you're an atheist. If you decide you do want to keep some sort of a relationship with her, why tell her what your beliefs are now? People don't normally talk about beliefs or lack of them outside the JWs. It's up to you but if it's going to shatter your relationship and you do want to keep it to an extent, why mention it?
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do not keep account of the injury?
by Addison0998 ini have a long time âfriendâ around my age, she and her husband are big sheeple who have been raised to practically worship elders and view their as police angels.
anyways, they recently arranged to have a meeting with the elders to ask for their blessing pretty much to go to a wedding of a relative of hers who is not in the best standing, (she just recently got baptized and her husband was recently reinstated) anyways, the elders told them of course that it was their choice, but warned them that every time they ask for the elders advice on something, it is recorded whether they heeded the advice or not and looked at for things such as ske school, which is a goal they have to do together.
and of course they advised them not to go so they didnât, especially since they want to go to the ske school, and i guess they only accept people who let people have full control of their lives.
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Thanks Freddo, I googled NVM and saw it could mean nevermind but I thought it can't be right because it didn't fit the context.
I've honestly never heard of this SKE, mini Gilead school. Things on here still surprise me.
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do not keep account of the injury?
by Addison0998 ini have a long time âfriendâ around my age, she and her husband are big sheeple who have been raised to practically worship elders and view their as police angels.
anyways, they recently arranged to have a meeting with the elders to ask for their blessing pretty much to go to a wedding of a relative of hers who is not in the best standing, (she just recently got baptized and her husband was recently reinstated) anyways, the elders told them of course that it was their choice, but warned them that every time they ask for the elders advice on something, it is recorded whether they heeded the advice or not and looked at for things such as ske school, which is a goal they have to do together.
and of course they advised them not to go so they didnât, especially since they want to go to the ske school, and i guess they only accept people who let people have full control of their lives.
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SKE, NVM?
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2018/19 new light
by Ray Frankz inhi guys, long time without paying a visit to this site.
today i returned to check a 'gossip' that is running around in brazilian exjw forums.. they are stating that is almost certain they will make a big change in their doctrine maybe this year yet in the annual meeting.
they say people in warwick were commenting on this.
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Xanthippe
Brothers, for some time we have noticed some among us have speculated when Armaggedon will arrive. Some impatient and indeed weaker ones have suggested 1879, 1914, 1925, 1975 or even 1994.
Time and time again the faithfull slave have made it clear that nobody knows the day or the hour. So we need to search our hearts and ask ourselves, are we today of the 'nobody' class? We here in Bethel certainly are of the 'nobody' class. Are you?