Posts by TD

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What made you walk out on the "Truth"?

by Overrated in

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friends

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.

TD

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

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) in the scene right after Anakin, Amidala and the two Jedi land on Coruscant, Palpatine's costume bounces back and forth in mid-conversation between a green and a blue color scheme. The most noticeable thing is the color of his collar.

Apologies for the potato quality video below. It's all I could find

At 4:12, the collar and trim are clearly green.

Palapatine paces back and forth and then turns at 4:33 and bang, the collar is as blue as blue can be.

There are several good clear views of the blue collar and then at 5:18, right the middle of the conversation, the collar is suddenly green again.

And it's not just the rotten quality of this video. The goof is much more noticeable at Blu-Ray quality or above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ZhdKW6gJo

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

Good God, I'm a nerd, lol.

I don't think so. Having a nose for this sort of stuff is completely incompatible with being a JW, so even if it were true, there's still a bright side.

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In the original Back to the Future (1985) in the mall chase scene, there ae several extreme closeups of the speedometer as Marty almost, but not quite gets up to the magic 88 a couple times.

Problem is the odometer reading is all over the place and at one point goes backwards by more than 60 miles as you can see in the clip below:

33064.2 at 3:46

33061.7 at 3:49

32994.2 at 3:53

33062.7 at 4:22 - 4:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AChCcVIJaCE

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Do you have any good movie mistakes or bloopers?

by LoveUniHateExams in

hey folks!.

just wondering if any of you jwn posters have favorite movie mistakes or bloopers?.

i think jackie brown (1997) is an excellent film, and the scene featuring ordell robbie (samuel l. jackson) and beaumont livingston (chris tucker) is perfect … well, almost.. samuel l. jackson almost bursts out laughing at 4 mins 52 secs, because of chris tucker's improvised line ('you catch a n*gga off guard with this sh1t!').

TD

In the original Terminator (1984) in the Tech Noir scene, Arnold pushes past a female dancer with shoulder length blond hair and an orange top (2:03 in the clip below)

The camera switches to the terminator's point of view as he approaches Sarah Connor's table and you can see the exact same woman chatting with two other people at a table behind Sarah (2:11 in the clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hGMgd2X14

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

I wasn't questioning whether the Neo-Babylonian Empire existed. Of course it did

I'm pointing out that the idea of ALL nations being subject to Babylon can't be taken literally.

Babylon and Egypt struggled for control of the Levant throughout the entire period with both of them winning and losing battles. The kings of Babylon managed to stop Egypt's Eastern expansion, but they certainly never conquered Egypt.

To the North were the Kingdoms of Media and Lydia and farther to the Northwest was Greece. That's a whole lot of real estate that was not under Babylonian control, so the idea of Babylon being one in a series of world powers must be restricted to some sort of figurative or prophetic sense (Which I believe the JW's actually do)

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

The Assyrian Empire encompassed modern Egypt, Libya, Iran, Armenia and the Arabian peninsula and included many fortified cities.

The Achaemenid Empire was even bigger, holding Ethiopia and most of Modern Greece, including Athens as well. This was arguably the first true world empire.

The Babylonian sphere of influence during the time period you're talking about was small and short-lived in comparison because again, we're talking about a city state and not an entire kingdom. They did not conquer their more powerful neighbors. Not even Egypt. Quite the opposite, they were assimilated into the Persian Empire, just like the powerful city states of Greece were eventually united under one ruler

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Interesting Find with Chronology

by Kelley959 in

i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

TD

Babylon was a powerful city state that dominated big chunks of Mesopotamia during two periods of history, but it was never a world power in a military sense.

Surely you know this (?)

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Do You Still Easily Believe Everything?

by minimus in

jw
friends

to be a witness you had to accept whatever spiritual food was being dished out.

even if it didn’t make any sense, we were expected to believe.

now that we are out of the cult, do you find yourself a person who doesn’t just accept the status quo?

TD

Just because someone tells you something, do you tend to automatically question it, or do you revert to taking the course of least resistance?

I don't think anybody wants to be taken in, but part of avoiding it is learning how to do proper research, which means sifting through primary sources and not relying on somebody else to summarize them for you

It sounds easy, but it's not when we're constantly flooded with so much information all the time.

Perfect example:

Dr. Judy Mikovits, the controversial virologist, who made some astounding claims at the height of the pandemic got a lot of traction, even here on this site.

Those claims however are easily debunked simply by reading through her own scientific papers in the order in which she published them.

That however takes a couple of hours and who has time?

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The Queen's Gambit (2020) One of the most enjoyable miniseries I've seen in awhile

by TD in

the queen's gambit is a 7 episode netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy in the 1950's and 60's.. the story chronicles the life of the fictitious character, elizabeth harmon (anja taylor-joy) from the time she learns the game as an orphan clear up to the point where she defeats russian grand master, vasily borgov (marcin dorociński) to become the world champion.. female grandmasters are a rarity, so i was afraid the series was going to morph into an anti-male screed.

(it easily could have).

nearly every male character in the series, from the gruff but kindly william shaibel, the custodian at the orphanage who taught her the basics of the game and fronted her the money for her first tournament to vasily borgov himself is gracious and clearly delighted to play against a woman so talented in a sport dominated by men.. two notable exceptions were her pos adopted father who didn't care about her or his wife and a russian player who got a little salty when she kicked his butt in 21 moves.

TD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtD3FVJ37Rk