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  Your body of elders - were they liberal, conservative or moderate?

  by minimus in

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  in my first kingdom hall, the elders were ultra conservative.

  our presiding overseer used to be a zone overseer.

  the second hall i was in was moderate.

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  Moderate, but stupid.
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  The Theory Of Everything

  by 88JM in

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  question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.

  i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.

  it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.

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  Xanthippe - I meant "later in life" as opposed to someone who was born with a disability and lived with it for their entire life.

  I just think it's a very contrived argument to say that a film which celebrates the success and life of someone with a disability actually harms the cause of disability awareness.
  

  I also wonder if the same arguments would still be being made if the film wasn't as successful. Where were all these arguments back in 2012 with Bill Murray playing F.D.R. in "Hyde Park on Hudson"?
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  The Theory Of Everything

  by 88JM in

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  question: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.

  i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.

  it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.

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  Question: Should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?

  I got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a Facebook group. It was partly based on this article in The Guardian:
  

  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/13/eddie-redmayne-golden-globe-stephen-hawking-disabled-actors-characters?CMP=fb_gu

  It's argued that it's wrong to celebrate Eddie Redmayne "cripping up" in the same way as it's wrong for someone white "blacking up". Obviously I do agree that it's wrong for people to be "blacking up", given the context of black oppression, slavery, etc. - I'd hope we can all agree on that.

  However on Facebook, I thought it was entirely reasonable for me to argue that a biographical story about Stephen Hawking could not really be played by an actor with a similar disability because Stephen Hawking did not develop his disability until later in life, so it needed an actor who could play both stages. If it were another character with a different disability or a fictional work, then I agree that would be different.

  At the same time I also totally agree that there is under-representation of people with disabilities in the movie industry, and I'd much rather that the awards were going to those people as well.

  But despite what I said, in the Facebook group the following was still said of the film:

  "It seems quite clear that celebrating an able-bodied actor 'cripping up' is pretty toxic."

  I didn't expect such a strong reaction to be honest, and I was going to argue that it's far more toxic for films about characters with disabilities to not ever be made at all.

  I just think in the case of this particular film that by criticizing it you actually discourage film makers from making films about such characters in future, and surely that actually harms the cause of people with disabilities far more.

  What are your thoughts?
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  Sam's watch

  by Slidin Fast in

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  i just started to watch the february broadcast when i noticed a metallic rattle over the drone of sam's voice.

  (does that man speak with a mouth full of chowin' tobacco or is he choking on the rubbish he reads off the autocue?).

  yep it's his rolex.

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  No doubt he would claim it was "a gift" - probably from some ass-kissing rich guy trying to get up the ladder.
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  2015/1/13/BOE!--Technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives!

  by Atlantis in

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  (from the source).

  2015 january 13, boe.. .. re: technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives.

  .. click the link by the little blue arrow and nothing else.. .. https://www.sendspace.com/file/0g0mr0.

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  I thought they were just going to loop the deafsterbation video for an hour.

  Who knows what Antony Morris was doing under that desk...
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  2015/1/13/BOE!--Technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives!

  by Atlantis in

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  (from the source).

  2015 january 13, boe.. .. re: technical preparations for the 20l5 visit of headquarters representatives.

  .. click the link by the little blue arrow and nothing else.. .. https://www.sendspace.com/file/0g0mr0.

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  Test video was just a replay of the January tv.jw.org broadcast.
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  Bono rocks! (U2 frontman talks about 50% decline in global poverty @ TED)

  by Fernando in

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  http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2013/none/bono_2013-480p.mp4 (download - right click, save file as)http://www.ted.com/talks/bono_the_good_news_on_poverty_yes_there_s_good_news.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bddkf0lw-ag.

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  Apologies, I got my stories mixed up.

  I was actually thinking of this news story - they have a corrections section at the top explaining what was wrong with the original assertion:

  http://www.cgdev.org/blog/global-absolute-poverty-fell-almost-half-tuesday
  

  Was discussed on the BBC's More Or Less:

  http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreorless_20140519-1200a.mp3
  
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  Bono rocks! (U2 frontman talks about 50% decline in global poverty @ TED)

  by Fernando in

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  http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2013/none/bono_2013-480p.mp4 (download - right click, save file as)http://www.ted.com/talks/bono_the_good_news_on_poverty_yes_there_s_good_news.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bddkf0lw-ag.

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  Wasn't that 50% reduction all B.S. because they changed the poverty line from a dollar a day to $1.25 a day? (I didn't watch the video yet)
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  London Conventions 2015 - NO TWICKENHAM

  by Da.Furious in

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  just got news from a friend that yesterday a letter was read in their congregation announcing new locations for the regional conventions in london.. the main item was no twickenham in 2015.. their congregation is assigned to excel london (need to confirm since he was not 100% sure).

  i will update this when i get more information tonight.. .

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  I'm not familiar with Twickenham's reputation as a venue, though I seem to remember hearing parking was always bad.

  Would moving to the ExCel center mean people have to use hotels more, by any chance?

  Maybe the GB made an "executive decision" as they were visiting in 2014 that Twickenham was no longer suitable/too expensive?
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  2014 Statistics and Graphs for USA, UK and Australia

  by jwfacts in

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  i have done a breakdown for the usa, since the majority on this forum are american, along with the uk and australia.

  us growth has slowed, but still moving along, but uk and australia have are at a virtual standstill, and in fact decreasing against population growth.. .

  jehovah's witness publisher statistics - united states.

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  I didn't realize the 2015 Yearbook was out - slipped that one quietly:

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2015-yearbook/

  Did I miss the post on here? Can't seem to find one mentioning it...