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  JW Grandparent Drama

  by What Now? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom and sisters have not had any contact with my family for the past year and a half.. we even recently announced a new pregnancy and none of them acknowledged it or called to say congratulations or anything.. this past week my non-witness grandfather passed away and i had thought that for the sake of his death and funeral, it being "necessary family business" that they would at least be civil in front of our other family.

  all of them still ignored me, my sisters didn't even speak to my children at all - to be honest i don't think my kids even knew who they were.

  for the sake of my grandmother i made a small attempt at the end of the day to say goodbye to my mother and she kind of just brushed past me and said goodbye without really looking at me.. anyways my grandmother told me later that my mom spoke to her and said "i love my daughter and i love my grandchildren and i'm so upset that she won't allow me to see them".

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  Funchback

  Spot on, What Now.

  Being a parent myself, there's no way I'd let my JW brother try to have a relationship with my son, while at the same time, shunning me.

  Like you said, it has to be the whole package, or none at all.
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  Lot's Wife - Connect the dots - JW.org

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  yay!

  now kids can help draw lot's wife getting destroyed.. .

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  Funchback

  Wow... I hadn't realized this had been around for several years.
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  Lot's Wife - Connect the dots - JW.org

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  yay!

  now kids can help draw lot's wife getting destroyed.. .

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  Funchback

  Yay! Now kids can help draw Lot's wife getting destroyed.

  
  
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  Old School Effects and CGI

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i was just thinking about old school effects and cgi (computer generated imagery) in film.

  first off, cgi is certainly an advancement in technology, in what can or can't be portrayed on screen.. my knowledge of films and film-making is by no means extensive.

  it's just i feel that sometimes film-makers rely too much on cgi, assume that more cgi = better film, or assume it's better to use cgi in every instance.. take a nightmare on elm street (1984).

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  Funchback

  Good topic, LUHE.

  The movie 'Alien' was well done. It came out in 1979. It was just a man in a rubber costume but it was really realistic. 'Jaws' was also incredible.

  For me, CGI in today's films take away from the realism as opposed to adding to it. Some really bad ones, in my opinion: A Perfect Storm, 2012, the latest King Kong...especially the Godzilla monsters he fought at the end, World War Z. All of the 'Hulks' are so computerish (except for the TV version of Hulk)

  Some goods ones, or at least some scenes, have been done really well, though: The plane crash in 'Castaway'; 'Rogue One', 'District 9', and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The most recent 'Jungle Book' movie was pretty decent.

  I was kinda torn about 'Life of Pi'. The tiger sometimes looks real, sometimes fake.

  Just some of my opinions.
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  Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

  when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

  ' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

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  Funchback

  Oh...I had thought what Shirley thought. LOL!
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  Brother Bradford's comment at the April 29 ,2017 Watchtower Study

  by NCC-1701 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hope this works .

  was listening to this on youtube today.

  check out brother bradford's comment about the picture of the governing body at about the 1:11:38 mark.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_jnua-ua0.

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  Funchback

  I found this on Google Images:

  
  
  (I had posted before realizing UnshackleTheChains posted a link to the photo).
  
  When comparing the video, everyone from Herd to Lett are exactly the same. The first two (from the left: Losch and Jackson) are in different poses.

  No big deal. I'm just pointing it out.
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  Brother Bradford's comment at the April 29 ,2017 Watchtower Study

  by NCC-1701 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hope this works .

  was listening to this on youtube today.

  check out brother bradford's comment about the picture of the governing body at about the 1:11:38 mark.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_jnua-ua0.

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  Funchback

  Lester Holt's brother is conducting.

  Why the need to keep changing everything?
  

  I think I know. From wikipedia: Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors, competitors, and other stakeholders.
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  Thinking about the faders in Russia

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine that you are fading and then, one day, the government bans your religion.. you no longer should have to fake it.

  your fade has now been done for you.. but, imagine the fader who now must attend bunker meetings just to maintain being part of the jw family.. for me, the ban would be my ticket out, but i imagine that some faders in russia are still forcing themselves to attend underground meetings.

  for those faders in unbanned countries: would a ban be your ticket to religious freedom?.

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  Funchback

  jwleaks-

  There are no arguments over those points.
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  Thinking about the faders in Russia

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine that you are fading and then, one day, the government bans your religion.. you no longer should have to fake it.

  your fade has now been done for you.. but, imagine the fader who now must attend bunker meetings just to maintain being part of the jw family.. for me, the ban would be my ticket out, but i imagine that some faders in russia are still forcing themselves to attend underground meetings.

  for those faders in unbanned countries: would a ban be your ticket to religious freedom?.

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  Funchback

  Imagine that you are fading and then, one day, the government bans your religion.

  You no longer should have to fake it. Your fade has now been done for you.

  But, imagine the fader who now must attend bunker meetings just to maintain being part of the JW family.

  For me, the ban would be my ticket out, but I imagine that some faders in Russia are still forcing themselves to attend underground meetings.

  For those faders in unbanned countries: Would a ban be your ticket to religious freedom?
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  Do You Miss The "Red Dot"?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  lol ...if you are new here, you might not understand the question..

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  Funchback

  Ave Maria