i guess every jw has a different conscience on the matter, and i don't believe any jw publications have ever specifically mentioned nudity in film as being off limits.
of course genitals are out of the question because that's usually relegated to r movies which most good jws don't view.
female toplessness is condoned but not spoken about, as most jws i know have seen titanic and many own it.
Here in Texas, JWs seem to tow the same line as most conservative Christians. No Rs, PG13s majority ok, PG most always ok, G no problem.
From my experience, the JWs in the UK and the Netherlands have a much better view of movie viewing choices. The US always seems to be puritanical about sex and inconsistent about their supposed hatred of violence.
I do have some Special Pioneer friends in Central America, and they watch EVERYTHING, pirated of course.
https://www.facebook.com/100007790431349/posts/2589219451347711/ .
celebrating holidays is wrong if you are a witness.
but almost every jw that i know of has turkey on thanksgiving day.
they say , every day is a day of thanksgiving.
I always struggled with the fact that I was told these things were wrong, but I could never see in practice the reason for their being wrong. Murder, stealing, yes, I can see those practices having bad results, but congratulating someone for making it another year in their limited time on the earth? I could never see anything negative about it.
When I was a child (of the 70s) I would hear this: "birthday parties bring too much honor to an individual". That made sense when I was 8 years old, but as my brain developed, I was like: "anniversaries honor two people", what the hell is the difference? Parental answer: "marriage is an arrangement of God" that's why we have anniversaries. And it was just stupid apologetics like this that aren't even in print that I would hear.
Most JWs know that there is actually nothing wrong with birthdays, thus the cognitive dissonance.
in watching the latest video in the series "was it designed?
" at tv-dot-jw-dot-org, i got to wondering why is it that watchtower hardly references scientist that are creationist.
i know its only a minority from that group, but there are enough out there for them to reference from.
I've noticed that Watchtower doesn't reference much of anything anymore.
so yeah, i've been encountering the word 'populist' quite a bit recently.. e.g.
trump's a populist president.. what does it mean?.
does it simply mean popular?.
a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people
or at least tries really hard to pretend to be.
Having a Verizon lawyer as the chair of the FCC isn't what I call draining the swamp.
take a look at this, fellow forum members .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5d7eoodv3e .
f**king brilliant xd.
thoughts?.
I agree, mow them down.
Fleeing criminals have the right to freeze and live, flee and die.
Wow this is a governmental policy that Simon and I actually agree on, pretty cool. Maybe we'll get on a roll.
crazy people shoot up places and kill people.
take away guns and they will find knives, poison, bombs , etc.. seriously, there are a lot of mentally unhealthy people!
they need professional long term help..
Can we get rid of the "what about knives?" bullshit analogy? Please?
You can fight a guy with a knife in his hand a few people can rush him. If he has a bumpstocked big clipped semiauto, you're fucking dead. And anyone else in his vicinity. Especially if he has any training at all and knows to do short bursts.
The 2nd amendment, calls for a "well regulated militia" not the unregulated wanton distribution of every deadly weapon ever to be invented.
Why does Texas prohibit the sale of fully automatic weapons?
i used to watch the tonight show starring johnny carson and jay leno.i loved the show.
it was funny, well written and timely.
back in the day ,i used to watch arsenio hall and sometimes letterman and conan.
Trump Ts his crap up by acting like himself, and Colbert knocks it out of the park. I love it.
he got into a fight with someone over a parking spot and popped him good enough to get arrested in nyc.
geez, maybe robert deniro was the other guy.
i’m waiting for a skit on saturday night live regardling this!.
You have to hand it to the right though, whenever they go nuts they do it right, they slaughter the hell out of people. Bombs, mass shootings, I mean the really KILL the living daylights out of people. The left, such pussies.
there's a preview note on one of the articles in this newly released watchtower.
the note can be found on an article titled "part 1 of 4 love and justice in ancient israel".the note states -.
this article is the first in a series of four that will discuss why we can be sure that jehovah cares about us.
The reputation of the cult and its leadership is what they try to protect.
Even families will do this. An older sibling will sexually abuse a young sibling, and the parents will strive to handle it "within the family". Misguided love for an offspring and the family name allows them to be come the enablers of a pedophile. This happens within many groups.
Adding "divine revelation" to the mix causes further ruin.
