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  Strong female characters in film before the 'Woke Era'

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  since about 2015, hollywood has congratulated itself and circle-jerked over the 'strong women' characters they've written.

  i'd say this roughly began with rey in the force awakens (2015).

  what hollywood forgets is that strong characters have to have a personality, otherwise audiences don't really relate to them.. well, hollywood should really stop patting themselves on the back as if they've done something special.. strong female characters have been a staple for decades.. here's one: private vasquez, from aliens (1986).

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  Doesn't that honor go to Mon Mothma? (I'm not up on Star Wars, so apologies if I've got that wrong...)
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  Strong female characters in film before the 'Woke Era'

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since about 2015, hollywood has congratulated itself and circle-jerked over the 'strong women' characters they've written.

  i'd say this roughly began with rey in the force awakens (2015).

  what hollywood forgets is that strong characters have to have a personality, otherwise audiences don't really relate to them.. well, hollywood should really stop patting themselves on the back as if they've done something special.. strong female characters have been a staple for decades.. here's one: private vasquez, from aliens (1986).

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  Jackie Brown and Clarice Starling
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  The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

  by Sea Breeze in

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  honda vfr 750.

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  Just want to say that there's a helluva difference between 120+ on an urban freeway, beltway, expressway versus a straight and perfectly flat desert highway with neither a tree nor vehicle nor anything else visible for miles and miles....
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  What Do You Think About New York City?

  by minimus in

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  i have been to the city hundreds of times.

  i’ve always loved the vitality of the city and no one could ever say that you could get bored in nyc.

  i regularly went for business during the day and in the evenings go to local bars and restaurants as well as the village.

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  Sadly, I've never been there

  --Could kick myself because I lived in D.C. for 13 years....
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  What made you walk out on the "Truth"?

  by Overrated in

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  i had a legal divorce from my ex wife( law of the land).

  i was told not to expect to get remarried because my divorce was not legal to watchtower.. my divorce and situation seem to be a talk of gossip and even a many local needs talks.

  i wanted to take some more schooling to get a better job, there was a local needs talk on higher education and it's dangers.

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  and they ask most people to be untrue to themselves.

  Well said.
  
  
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

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  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  I wonder what caused Jan Haugland to have enough interest in Rutherford and the WT to motivate him to write the article.

  Jan Haugland was a gung-ho JW years and years ago. It was through interaction with Alan Feuerbacher and others on the Friends mailing list (Around 1992) that he changed his mind.

  Jan has mostly broken with his JW past and is interested in other things today. (Who can blame him?)

  I would also add that there were pitched debates back then on what the use of the phrase, spirit direction actually meant in practical terms. Both gentleman regularly lambasted apologists who attempted to minimize the gravity of the claim.
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  There are other ways to convey a thought besides the explicit statement thereof:

  
  

  The meaning of this picture is unmistakable. JW literature literally comes from God's hands to yours. This falls well within the JW definition of a prophet insofar as the organization that produces this literature is concerned.
  
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  The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

  by Sea Breeze in

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  honda vfr 750.

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  '71 Chevelle with an LS-7 454 and a 4 speed Muncie.

  --Would love to have that one back. I see these Chevelles completely wrecked in movies like Jack Reacher and John Wick and want to weep....
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  JW Science Quote Of The Day 8-27

  by TD in

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  in the 1979 movie, "the china syndrome" there is a scene right after swat team members have retaken the control room from jack godell.

  (jack lemon) kimberly wells (jane fonda) nervously whispers to richard adams, (michael douglas) "the reactor is the biggest bomb in there!

  this reflected a belief, common in the 1970's that commercial nuclear reactors were capable of going up in a mushroom cloud like an atomic bomb.. although no one can deny that accidents and malfunctions at nuclear power plants can potentially be catastrophic, these reactors are not capable of a bomb-like reaction.

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  Diogenesister (From another thread)

  
  

  TD what is a control rod please? And what does the acronym SCRAM stand for?

  Reactor control rods act as a sort of throttle in the sense that they moderate the reaction. Here's an easy way to visualize what's happening using Uranium 235 as an example:
  

  
  

  A neutron (Small grey circle on the left) strikes a U-235 atom causing it change into U-236 momentarily and then split into two smaller atoms. (Barium and Krypton in this example.) These smaller atoms require a lot less energy to hold them together, so the excess energy is released as heat. The split also releases two or more extra neutrons, which may strike other U-235 atoms resulting in more heat and more neutrons. This doubling is called neutron multiplication and it can quickly get out of control.

  In commercial reactors, the control rod mechanism is a bundle of about 20 rods composed of materials which absorb these extra neutrons, which prevents them from traveling into adjacent fuel pellets and rods. This in turn lessens the thermal output of the reactor.

  In English, a SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a reactor. The control rods are completely inserted and water based solutions laced with the same sort of materials as the control rods themselves are injected into the reactor coolant.

  There isn't any real agreement today over the etymology of the word. In the very early days of nuclear research, scientists would experiment on table tops (I kid you not) and if something went wrong, the best thing to do was to run, which is one possible explanation for the term. Other explanations are possible acronyms the word could have stood for, like Safety Control Rod Activation Mechanism, but again, there's no real consensus on this.
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  What made you walk out on the "Truth"?

  by Overrated in

  1. jw
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  i had a legal divorce from my ex wife( law of the land).

  i was told not to expect to get remarried because my divorce was not legal to watchtower.. my divorce and situation seem to be a talk of gossip and even a many local needs talks.

  i wanted to take some more schooling to get a better job, there was a local needs talk on higher education and it's dangers.

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  I was not actually "in" but lost all respect for/interest in the religion my parents were studying when I realized the writers did not possess even a middle school child's knowledge of the physical world.

  It was so bad that I started a series here on this forum in direct response to the idea that "celebrated scholars" exist anywhere in the JW world

  Here's an example:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/140936/jw-science-quote-day-8-27

  And another:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/141006/jw-science-quote-day-8-28

  And another:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187518/jw-science-quote-1-15