Posts by Jules Saturn

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YPA change of picture

by dozy in

anybody got any idea why the cover picture on the young people ask book was changed?

they removed the picture of the boy bottom right & superimposed a different head.

maybe the guy got dfd or maybe it was to change it to an asian guy rather than 2 caucasians?

Jules Saturn

Wow I never noticed that, maybe to show diversity? You could be right though, could’ve been d’fed

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Look what I got for five bucks...

by Nosferatu in

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friends

i think i've found the one true religion!.

.

Jules Saturn

Lucky you, I’ve been searching for a copy of this book

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The First Young People Ask VHS

by Cimarrona in

do y'all remember the young people ask tape that came out in the late 90s about "bad association"?

i was a fairly small child with teenage siblings and watched it often (with family and alone cause i thought it was the inside scoop on older kids).

that was back when worldly was still very much so a part of dubspeak (i think they started encouraging people to stop saying it in the mid to late 2000s).

I would watch that vhs tape as a child a lot, definitely brings back A LOT of memories. I saw it recently through an account on YouTube called WatchtowerReviewz and in his videos he pokes fun at these movies that the Society makes.

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Blade Runner - the new movie

by days of future passed in

i went to see blade runner 2 because i liked the first one.

even tho the first one was i think rated r, i still saw it.

the whole atmosphere of the first one was bizarre and real to itself.. if you don't want to be spoiled, don't read on.. with high hopes, despite hearing that it tanked at the box office (are the critics crazy?

Jules Saturn

I saw the movie and I thought it was aesthetically beautiful but I did feel lost while watching it, I hadn’t seen the first once so I didn’t really know the significance of Sean Young’s character and all that. I plan on seeing the first one and then watching 2049 again. Definitely loved the film score and the outfits, the feel and look of the movie, just a little lost from not being able to connect the first one with this one

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If WT are cutting back on mags will they also cut back on Bethelites?

by truthseeker in

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i was thinking after hearing about the agm cutbacks to the mags and other website content surely they will end up dismissing more bethelites?

i would have thought in the old days, before the web, an artist or writer at bethel would have been a full time job making content for four 32 page mags a month.

now what are these guys going to do?.

Jules Saturn

There definitely could be a huge cutback for bethelites especially for those in the art department and maybe even the writing committee. Apparently the information is going to be recycled after a couple of years and just be updated after they’ve been released already. But really there isn’t a need anymore for an art department

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Help please

by Akid48 in

one of my posts keep re posting when i haven't tryed to post it again.. like a week ago i tried to post i was suck in a loop i tryed three times and it has posted 5 times..

Jules Saturn

But why is that each time it has a different title for the topic if you only tried posting it once?

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Who has a harder time leaving JW's - Born Ins or those who converted?

by HeyLittleGirl in

my freind (who is also out) and i were talking about this the other night.

i was a born-in, 3rd generation jw and she converted when she was in her late 20's.. when she left, she said that she knew the world wasn't as bad as she was told as a jw, so she knew she would be fine.

also, she still had lots of "worldly" family who welcomed her back with open arms.. it was harder for me - i had nobody in the "world", no family or freinds.

Jules Saturn

Very hard as a born in and I say this as a PIMO

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Jehovah's Witnesses and The Empire (Star Wars)

by neat blue dog in

i've been reading some of the latest star wars novels that take place around the movies and i can't help but be struck with how the empire reminds me of jws.

(i know it's typical of many high control groups, etc.

but it's close to home.

Jules Saturn

Star Wars has so many parallels to being a JW or high control group. Like the Jedi Council being the GB or body of elders and Anakin wanting to be a member of either and doesn’t become one because he isn’t “spiritual” enough so he gets disfellowshipped and turns to the dark side.

Those parallels you mentioned sound really spot on

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2017 Annual Meeting

by Jules Saturn in

this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

Jules Saturn

Now that I think about it, I wonder if them saying there will be a change in the ministry, basically saying that Matt 24:14 has been fulfilled will trigger membership to grow for people who have already left. Maybe in an effort to instill fear in the hearts of those that have left, to insinuate that because the preaching work is fulfilled or almost over, that the Great Tribulation and Armageddon will commence soon.

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2017 Annual Meeting

by Jules Saturn in

this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

Jules Saturn

@cofty

I can imagine, especially if there is a financial situation